Dr. Daniel Amen
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So this does the opposite. Is you bring it up and then it dissipates. And I always want my patients going into the pain rather than blocking the pain. Because when you suppress the pain with alcohol, it always comes back and rebounds it. When you go through it, you begin to understand it and process it. So I did a study on EMDR on police officers.
So this does the opposite. Is you bring it up and then it dissipates. And I always want my patients going into the pain rather than blocking the pain. Because when you suppress the pain with alcohol, it always comes back and rebounds it. When you go through it, you begin to understand it and process it. So I did a study on EMDR on police officers.
So this does the opposite. Is you bring it up and then it dissipates. And I always want my patients going into the pain rather than blocking the pain. Because when you suppress the pain with alcohol, it always comes back and rebounds it. When you go through it, you begin to understand it and process it. So I did a study on EMDR on police officers.
who all left work after they were involved in shootings so they had emotional trauma and average of eight sessions they all went back to work and it calmed down the diamond in their brain and for Therapy, my favorite things to do. One, love your brain. Two, stop believing every stupid thing you think. So I have a children's book called Captain Snout and the Superpower Questions.
who all left work after they were involved in shootings so they had emotional trauma and average of eight sessions they all went back to work and it calmed down the diamond in their brain and for Therapy, my favorite things to do. One, love your brain. Two, stop believing every stupid thing you think. So I have a children's book called Captain Snout and the Superpower Questions.
who all left work after they were involved in shootings so they had emotional trauma and average of eight sessions they all went back to work and it calmed down the diamond in their brain and for Therapy, my favorite things to do. One, love your brain. Two, stop believing every stupid thing you think. So I have a children's book called Captain Snout and the Superpower Questions.
It's about killing the ants. Ants stands for automatic negative thoughts. Thoughts that come into your mind automatically and ruin your day. And I was 28 years old in my psychiatric residency when my One of my professors said, you have to teach your patients not to believe every stupid thing they think. I'm 28 years old. I'm in my residency, finished medical school. I'm really well educated.
It's about killing the ants. Ants stands for automatic negative thoughts. Thoughts that come into your mind automatically and ruin your day. And I was 28 years old in my psychiatric residency when my One of my professors said, you have to teach your patients not to believe every stupid thing they think. I'm 28 years old. I'm in my residency, finished medical school. I'm really well educated.
It's about killing the ants. Ants stands for automatic negative thoughts. Thoughts that come into your mind automatically and ruin your day. And I was 28 years old in my psychiatric residency when my One of my professors said, you have to teach your patients not to believe every stupid thing they think. I'm 28 years old. I'm in my residency, finished medical school. I'm really well educated.
No one had ever told me that before. I believed every stupid thing I thought. So here's the exercise. Whenever you feel sad or mad or nervous or out of control, write down what you're thinking and then ask yourself, is it true? Can I absolutely know that's true? How does that thought make me feel? Terrible. How would I feel without the thought? So much up here.
No one had ever told me that before. I believed every stupid thing I thought. So here's the exercise. Whenever you feel sad or mad or nervous or out of control, write down what you're thinking and then ask yourself, is it true? Can I absolutely know that's true? How does that thought make me feel? Terrible. How would I feel without the thought? So much up here.
No one had ever told me that before. I believed every stupid thing I thought. So here's the exercise. Whenever you feel sad or mad or nervous or out of control, write down what you're thinking and then ask yourself, is it true? Can I absolutely know that's true? How does that thought make me feel? Terrible. How would I feel without the thought? So much up here.
And then you take the original thought and you turn it to the opposite. And you ask yourself if the opposite of the thought is bothering me is true. This is so cool. It's so powerful. And so basically I teach all my patients one page miracle. What do you want? Then we have to kill the ants, the automatic negative thoughts.
And then you take the original thought and you turn it to the opposite. And you ask yourself if the opposite of the thought is bothering me is true. This is so cool. It's so powerful. And so basically I teach all my patients one page miracle. What do you want? Then we have to kill the ants, the automatic negative thoughts.
And then you take the original thought and you turn it to the opposite. And you ask yourself if the opposite of the thought is bothering me is true. This is so cool. It's so powerful. And so basically I teach all my patients one page miracle. What do you want? Then we have to kill the ants, the automatic negative thoughts.
And then whatever trauma is there, we use things like EMDR to help them get rid of it with a healthy brain.
And then whatever trauma is there, we use things like EMDR to help them get rid of it with a healthy brain.
And then whatever trauma is there, we use things like EMDR to help them get rid of it with a healthy brain.
Well, your brain, the moment-by-moment physical function of your brain creates your mind.
Well, your brain, the moment-by-moment physical function of your brain creates your mind.