(Doctor’s Note: This was originally published on March 13, 2017) You’d be surprised how bored you can get waiting for someone to die. If you’ve been lucky, this sounds either horrific or a pretty good way to start a book. On the other hand, if you’ve dealt with an impending death in the family, it…
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This Is What Toxic Relationships Look Like (Or: The Love Con of Martin Shkreli)
There’s a joke on Twitter — in that “ha ha but no, seriously” sense — that goes “every day one person becomes the main character on the Internet. Your goal is to avoid being that person.” On December 20, 2020, when Elle published their long-form piece, “The Journalist and The Pharma Bro“, Christie Smythe became…
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How Do I Stop Leading People On?
Dear Dr. NerdLove, This is a pretty minor problem compared to a lot of the ones that you deal with, but I’ve really valued your advice over the years, so I thought I’d send it in anyway. I was very nervous and awkward as a teenager, but I have spent the last decade working actively…
How To Be More Persuasive
Doctor’s Note: This article was first published on October 31, 2016 Ever gotten into an argument with someone who’s clearly wrong, but you can’t change their mind? Wish you could just Jedi mind-trick your racist uncle into not voting for a bigot? Or have you just been jealous of people who seem to be natural influencers, who…
Episode #154 — The Secret To Building Incredible Emotional Strength And Powerful Confidence
Right now, we are living through the most stressful, even outright traumatic year that most of have ever faced in our lives. Even if you’re in a relatively good place, we’re all getting hit with bad news, more stories of police violence, political corruption, the continuing pandemic, even potential fallout from the election. It can…
How To Build Emotional Strength
Right now everything feels like chaos. We’re living through the worst pandemic the world has seen in more than 100 years. We are less than three weeks out from an election that feels like our choice is whether to pull America back from the brink of fascism or not. Our lives have been thrown into…