Dr. Linda Mintle’s blog

Please don't use PTSD as a reason for shooting 13 people

2009-11-06T21:45:07Z

I was incensed today when I began following the news coverage on Major Hasan's gunning down of 13 fellow soldiers and wounding 30 people. News media are making me crazy with their talk about post traumatic stress as a cause for this shooting. Hasa...

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Media Hypocrisy

2009-10-19T21:41:57Z

Ok I've had enough of the Rush Limbaugh can't own an NFL team because of inappropriate comments he made a few years ago for which he has apologized. Is it really about those comments? Come on. The public is not a bunch of idiots who can't see this...

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Press Pause Before You Eat

2009-10-09T20:12:22Z

So much of the advice in PRESS PAUSE BEFORE YOU EAT is hitting home that I will be recording weekly podcasts to help you stay encouraged and apply the PRESS PAUSE principle to your eating habits. Yes, it is possible to develop a positive relations...

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Hollywood is an embarrassment

2009-10-02T13:12:37Z

If I hear one more celebrity excusing the behavior of Roman Polansky, I'm going to personal hold group therapy sessions with Hollywood. Roman Polansky, at the age of 44--note he was not 20 or a confused teenager but a 44 years old man--drugged a 1...

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Behind the scenes

2009-09-23T19:02:47Z

I had so much fun doing media in Nashville last week. I ended up doing group discussions in the green rooms of the various television stations on eating issues and why we have so much difficulty pressing pause before we eat. The interviews were g...

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No sense or sensibility

2009-09-23T18:59:11Z

I'm not going to give out the website that provides the nonsense I am about to discuss but you should know how crazy our culture is getting to be when it comes to feeding momentary individual happiness. When I read this story in a popular magazi...

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March Madness

2009-03-03T17:42:20Z

Here’s what people in therapy tell me when I ask about a moment of anger. “I didn’t think anything. I just felt angry.” And I say, “Yes you did think something. You just weren’t aware of it. And thinking influences feeling. Anger is an intense emo...

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Fighting the Winter Blues

2009-01-28T21:49:06Z

It’s that time of year again. Daylight is shorter. The air is brisk and people with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) know it’s time to get more light! Winter depression, know as the “winter blues” or SAD, gets activated by decreasing daylight. It...

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NEW BOOK COMING SOON

2009-01-27T19:49:24Z

COMING MAY 26, 2009

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008Like...

2008-11-04T20:45:11Z

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Like most of you, I waited in line to vote this morning for 2 hours and 15 minutes. I actually got to know more of my neighbors and it was exciting to see the voter turn out. Now, I wished they had more than 3 women check...

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