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Recent content by Matthias

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    Do you believe in IQ?

    I see. I tried learning the correct responses to emotional situations just like you did. I agree with you that it doesn't work well. However, books on emotional intelligence do much more: they help you change your emotional responses to situations so that you're able to experience the same...
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    What is the worst/best advice you’ve been given

    The best. That's why it's been my signature (below all my posts) for a few years now. When people believe everything in their life is outside of their control, they can't help but feel like a helpless victim when things don't go their way. This often leads to blaming others for one's problems...
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    What is the worst/best advice you’ve been given

    Stop acting like a victim and accept responsibility for your situation! Your problems are your own. You are in control of your own life. It's not what happens to you (bad things happen to everyone) but how you think about it and respond to it that affects you.
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    Yet another Evaluation

    IQ affects social interaction and communication skills, resulting in many people with lower IQ having more difficulty in these areas. One of the criteria for ASD is that these deficits must be significantly more severe than others with the same IQ. It sounds like they're saying that your...
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    Emotional Control/Brain Damage

    Being emotional unstable, depressed and withdrawn is more an issue with the mind than the brain. Thinking more positively, adopting an attitude of gratitude, changing distorted beliefs, and embracing a healthier mindset can greatly improve or even eliminate these problems.
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    Emotional Control/Brain Damage

    Yes, it's very common. Around 90% meet the criteria for a mental health disorder. Reading books about emotional intelligence (EQ) can be very helpful as EQ plays a very large role in relationships.
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    Have any of used this website for a while but made no friends here?

    You're not alone. I don't think anyone here likes me.
  8. M

    Change to Hippocratic Oath

    I didn't realize it changed. Maybe that's why many doctors no longer follow "Do no harm."
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    Need help figuring out how talk to my friends about our different political beliefs

    Interesting. I had no idea Rupert Murdoch owned media outlets in Australia. I like the idea of taking people to court for pushing propaganda that divides citizens.
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    Need help figuring out how talk to my friends about our different political beliefs

    Of all the major media outlets in the USA, Fox is the most popular and widely considered the least biased. I don't believe that. That's the propaganda the media is portraying. They constantly try to divide people by race, gender, religion, wealth, social status, etc. I can't stand it.
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    Dumb and Dumber

    Social isolation can cause those symptoms. If you've started avoiding people due to the trauma (common if the trauma involves other people's behavior), I recommend you spend more time with others, ideally friends or family. While stress can cause similar symptoms, are you currently stressed...
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    Journalist query: Studies of "subtypes" of autism

    I'm sure you could have identical quadruplets (4 babies who are genetically identical), with each one manifesting a different one of the four clinically and biologically distinct subtype of autism identified in the major study you quoted. My opinion is those subtypes are just different ways of...
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    Need help figuring out how talk to my friends about our different political beliefs

    The owners deliberately twist the news by censoring stories that don't align with their ideology and twisting others to conform to it. Someone with an important role in one outlet (MSNBC) was actually caught on camera by an undercover reporter admitting they are the propaganda arm of the...
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    Need help figuring out how talk to my friends about our different political beliefs

    I mostly blame the mainstream media because they're the ones promoting the idea that anyone who disagrees with a particular narrative or ideology is a bigot, fascist, Nazi, deplorable, etc. That kind of intolerance and hate divides society and encourages violence against good people. It's even...
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    Need help figuring out how talk to my friends about our different political beliefs

    My experience with the people you described is that they're emotional thinkers who can't be reasoned with, especially since they feel strongly about it. Your response would be reasonable if you were dealing with rational people who think with their brain. However, when dealing with people who...
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