Do therapists take their own advice? Interviewing my mum, Doris Brett
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How to Live With Uncertainty
I think we all are actually living with enormous uncertainty. The first time that I really grappled with that was when I started working in the oncology department of major teaching hospital. We have what I like to call a kind of a curtain of healthy denial that protects us from constantly confronting the reality our lives can be flipped around any time out of the blue and in the space of the second. Anything can happen at any time. That's the reality. Now, if we were to be aware of that all of the time, we would be paralyzed with anxiety. And so we have this healthy denial, which is healthy, that allows us to function in the belief or fantasy, if you
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