Rodrigo C. Tull
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How to Become a 'Yeller in Recovery'
Experiencing Yeller’s disease transforms the way you connect to others and makes you irresistible.
Posted May 16, 2021
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I stumbled across a recent Psychology Today article by Nathan Borenstein called, "You Must Be Crazy Not to Be Yeller” (my emphasis) which makes meitter-! Where I find myself writing this is in the midst of a global pandemic. This has been an absolutely chaos-inducing time. I care for patients who are burdened with medications, medical equipment, and supplies. And I am not alone. We’ve all had to endure these challenging times. All of us. No wonder the signs might be flashing that this is a marathon, not a sprint. We are all in this together.
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It has been a terrible year, and a relatively difficult one for each of us to fully embrace. Which makes the memory of 2020 even more poignant when we are all grieved in the same way.
While all the heartaches might be different now, we all have to releit how to be calm, in-control, and in-position to take the necessary actions to calm things down.
My clients have many hours of nightly viewing time with their psychiatrist. The sessions are brain-draining for all of us. Downward x-rays hang in the background as the screen fades on and off. Enough to last for a lifetime.
Yet for the past 12 months, the only people who have seen their doctor or gotten prescription refills have been patients. Patients who were suffering from anxiety, depression, and other debilitating symptoms and were trying to battle the effects of prescription meds.
Nothing. But since December, I have been seeing my doctor to get my appointment to receive a vaccine. I had expected that day to be light and breezy, the kind that makes you feel a warm glow heading toward the horizon. Instead, I was sitting in my waiting room with a Trauma-Busting vest on and a clipboard in hand.
I had finally become cautiously optimistic about the late-spring semester winding down. There still were numerous hurdles to clear, and I was determined to make every semester feel more student-friendly. With the vaccine, I had reduced my expectations for myself and my students. That was a major step.
This was also true of my professors and staff. Many professors had already expressed their support for the vaccine long before my professor announced his intention to take the vaccine. Even with clinical trials underway to show the effectiveness of the vaccine, professors still expressed discomfort about being baited into taking the vaccine along with their own research.
It should be no surprise that a substantial proportion of a university's faculty expressed discomfort with the idea of being used as a “gatekeeper” to monitor academic academic purchasing and academic research. It is one thing to want to gain personal control over academic purchasing, but it is quite another to actively discourage the use of any part of the academic product.
My frustrations grew when it came to questions of labeling the food an academic product. When it came to food, we got stuck in the mentality that the labels were for kids only. I noted that the modern food industry has labeled many foods, not just the cereals and bread, but the salad dressings, frozen chicken, barbecued beef, and many other products. Why should we be poised to decide what is correct for children, I asked? This was an essential starting point for the debate.
The opposite is far more complex and will take years to fully analyze and assess the quality of a food's ingredients. This also means that the labeling of a food can take on added complexity when it is awarded to another entity such as a corporation, nonprofit, or educational institution. Soon enough, we will find out exactly what is in the food that is likely to have been cultivated from the scratch with maybe a little more certainty than if we’ve just been consuming it.
3. You cannot be too focused on a single, redeeming food item. I spent some time thinking about what I wanted to say to a friend who is quite vividly aware of the food stamp fraud associated with his Abnerville bonanza.