Dr. Sue Varma

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1,488 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Train Your Brain To Thrive Through Menopause · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

They're coming to the clinic and bringing patients with them who were too scared to leave their home because that happens.

A lot of people didn't want to take public transportation.

They didn't want to come to the city.

And that's typical in trauma, the avoidance, hypervigilance, nightmares, flashbacks.

Mm-hmm.

So they had agoraphobia.

They didn't want to leave.

They couldn't even make their medical appointments, even though they desperately needed it.

And yet there was a subset of folks who went through the same losses that day and yet came in healthy, happy, and supportive of the other people.

So I said, these are the people that I need to study.

I want to treat my patients.

but I want to understand who are these people and what they're doing right.

And over the course of the years, I realized that they had this sort of optimistic framework on life, which was this idea that bad things can happen.

There's an acceptance, right?

And that's why I call it practical optimism, because it's not just accepting and resigning, because a lot of

Extreme optimists, they do that.

They just resign.

They say like, oh yeah, things will work themselves out.

But practical optimists say they're very aware of the negative things that can happen, but they're prepared to handle through their agency, through their problem solving, right?

They're very clear through their processing.

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