Mental Health ⁽³²⁾

Through my work, I have come into contact with a great many people from all walks of life. Some of them are troubled by psychological distress because they cannot get along well with the outside world. To them, their surroundings are always like a thorn-filled…

Pavlov once studied the influence of central nervous system function on aging, and he carried out a very interesting experiment. In the experiment there were two groups of dogs, all receiving the same food and care. However, one group of dogs developed conditioned reflexes of…

It is an objective fact that one person’s cognition may differ radically from another’s, and in most cases such differences cannot be changed in a few words. With someone far removed from you, the wisest course is to withhold judgment and stay silent. When two…

Recently, the National Medical Products Administration issued an announcement (No. 120 of 2025) on revising the package inserts for montelukast preparations, requiring that warning language be added to the inserts of all montelukast formulations, alerting that montelukast carries a risk of inducing depression, self-harm, and…

My mother had five siblings who loved each other all their lives. In my more than forty years of memory, they have never once quarreled—a true zero record. My second aunt and my mother married into the same village; when I was small, my mother…

Sometimes, compared with remembering, what we need more is to forget. — Epigraph Some patients' family members, after their loved ones pass away, take a very long time to come out of grief. I generally advise them to start by gradually throwing away the deceased's…

In my hot-blooded youth I held many unrealistic fantasies. I believed that through hard work we could surely conquer disease, and that the social problems plaguing us all would one day vanish completely. Even more absurdly, I harbored lofty ideals, believing that through revolution and…

East Asian education is simply a waste of children's lives. — Nakamura Shuji, Nobel laureate in Physics In 1997, when I was in the second year of high school, my grades had risen to a dazzling level. I ranked near the very top in a…

A few days ago, my wife and I took a ride-hailing car to visit an old classmate of mine. When we called the car on the app, we weren't paying close attention to the options and chose a shared ride. When the car arrived, there…

On Wednesday evening my students came to visit me. One of them had just been admitted to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. I gave her three books: "I Myself, My Brain," "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Personality Disorders," and "The Psychiatrist's Handbook," and asked her to…