Psychology Chat ⁽⁸⁵⁾

Patients' emotional problems have long been highly valued in Chinese medicine, which has regarded emotion as an internal cause of disease from ancient times to the present. But regrettably, although Chinese medicine has all kinds of specialized monographs, it lacks works on psychiatry. Perhaps this…

There is a saying in Buddhism: Bodhisattvas fear causes; ordinary beings fear effects. It means that because Bodhisattvas have transcendent wisdom and can see the effect in the cause, they fear planting bad causes; ordinary beings, lacking understanding of cause and effect, do not become…

Every day each of us thinks about many things, but these everyday thoughts are superficial. For a normal person, superficial thinking is enough: they are healthy, work goes well, life is happy, and they have no interest in thinking; they do not need to think…

In the book Sophie's World, one day the little girl Sophie suddenly receives a puzzling letter. It has no sender and no return address; she does not know who delivered it. It simply appears before her eyes, containing only three words: "Who are you?" Not…

A powerful sense of calling has healing power; this is beyond doubt. Zhou Youguang became ill with depression, but after throwing himself into his work and finding love, he recovered without treatment. Zhang Yunhe became ill with depression and endured the loss of her daughter,…

I am writing this article not only as a physician but also as a family member of a patient. My mother's final years were tormented by three diseases: sequelae of cerebral hemorrhage, secondary depression, and advanced gastric cancer. Her secondary depression was never given that…

A snake glides along the ground, hissing. A little girl held in her mother's arms cries in fright. Her mother tells her: snakes are poisonous; if a snake bites someone, that person dies; from now on, when you see a snake, run far away. A…

"Merely staying alive has already exhausted all my strength." This is the shared voice of people with depression, and some patients lack even the strength to live and choose suicide. For example, yesterday's trending search included one item: "Rapper An Dahuo has passed away from…

Waking up in the morning, I saw the news that a teenager from Xingtai, Hebei who had been searching for his birth parents, Liu Xuezhou, had died by suicide, and my heart was stung. This fifteen-year-old was one year younger than my son, right in…

The question of the meaning of life has been pondered, throughout history, by countless philosophers, artists, writers, and scientists. Ordinary people like me also ask ourselves: what is the meaning of being alive? The most amusing answer I have seen came from a scientist whose…