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In daily practice I find many people trapped in mistaken beliefs all their lives without knowing it, truly blocked by one leaf so they cannot see the mountain. This occurs not only in patients with cognitive impairment but in normal people, and even in myself.

How many commercial advertisements do we encounter in a day? The oceanographer Jacques Cousteau did a fascinating experiment: between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., as he walked around Paris, he counted every ad he encountered. He said: "Whenever someone tried to sell me something I…

Is cancer curable? For a long time, influenced by the prevailing view, I thought it was not. Because in practice things always fell short at the last step: we thought some cancer patients would not relapse, but they did, and the reasons were baffling. Yet…

First, I must define a healthy relationship. By it I mean a relationship beneficial both to ourselves and to the person we associate with, where "beneficial" means good for physical and mental health. For lovers, family, friends, teachers and students, classmates, and relatives to get…

The chronic diseases that most often coexist in cancer patients are hypertension, hyperglycemia (diabetes), obesity with hyperlipidemia, heart disease, stroke (cerebral hemorrhage or infarction), anxiety disorders, and depression. I believe most oncologists share my intuition: after five years in oncology with more than a thousand…

In depression, the chief complaints of Eastern and Western patients differ. Patients with depression in Europe, America, and similar countries emphasize that they are worthless. The most famous depressive patient, British Prime Minister Churchill, said a classic line: "I have done many things in my…

On the day of Awakening of Insects, I shouldered a spade and went to my rented little vegetable plot to turn the soil. After working for a while, I felt relaxed in body and mind. I had been watching news of the Russia-Ukraine war and…

There was an intellectually disabled child in my village; his parents were close relatives who married, so the child was born with an intellectual deficit. In the past, whenever I returned to the village I would see him wandering around, scavenging food from garbage dumps,…

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. — Philosopher Bertrand Russell In 2002, at 23, I served as lead writer and coordinator on a project led by the National Development and Reform Commission concerning "sustainable development of resources, population, and…

Recently, after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, two sharply different camps emerged: one supports solving problems through war, the other calls for peaceful means. Analyzed closely, those who support war hold a pessimistic view, believing things have deteriorated to the point where only war…