{"id":482631,"date":"2010-03-28T18:53:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T22:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f20\/3-minute-therapy-you-get-what-you-pay-41477\/"},"modified":"2010-03-28T18:53:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T22:53:40","slug":"3-minute-therapy-you-get-what-you-pay-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/482631","title":{"rendered":"3-minute therapy: You get what you pay for"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>3-minute therapy: You get what you pay for<\/p>\n<p><\/b>We live in a society that&#8217;s so fast paced, we don&#8217;t even want to take the time to treat our ailments &#8212; especially the emotional ones. And now, believe it or not, there are psychiatrists and psychologists offering three-minute therapy sessions.<\/p>\n<p>One therapist had a case that went roughly like this: the man said he had fears of losing his job because he was afraid at his age he&#8217;d never find a new one. The therapist asked him if he had outside interests. The man said he&#8217;d always wanted to write a book, to which the therapist responded, &quot;Pursue this new venture. When you are in a situation like this, you must re-invent yourself.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Session over.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the kind of advice you&#8217;d expect from your hairdresser or a store clerk. And if that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re looking for, you may as well save your money.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I was trained as a physician, not a psychiatrist. So you&#8217;ll excuse me if I look at the so-called benefits of this new method with a somewhat cynical eye. But in all my years of medical experience, I haven&#8217;t come across a whole lot that can be solved in just three minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Giving you advice you can actually use,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.douglassreport.com\/\/t\/AQ\/AAE8QQ\/AAFCXg\/C+U\/AQ\/Ad481Q\/JkYU\" >William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3-minute therapy: You get what you pay for We live in a society that&#8217;s so fast paced, we don&#8217;t even want to take the time to treat our ailments &#8212; especially the emotional ones. And now, believe it or not, there are psychiatrists and psychologists offering three-minute therapy sessions. One therapist had a case that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}