by MBPdoctor | Nov 22, 2025 | Life advice
Prolific author and former Whitehouse speechwriter Daniel Pink, in his original and sagacious style, released a YouTube video called “40 Harsh Truths I Wish I Knew in my 20’s”, distilling 40 life lessons into a pithy 13 minute video. It’s worth a look: ...
by MBPdoctor | Jan 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
The “SECRET” of Happy Couples As we live amid the so-called “epidemic of loneliness”, finding a suitable spouse or partner can be a challenge. Having achieved that milestone, keeping it going and realizing all the upside potential requires core values as well as...
by MBPdoctor | Jan 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Curiosity and Openness to New Experiences (“CONE”): a creative and quintessential resiliency strength Larry H Pastor, MD In the taxonomy of resiliency strengths, the beliefs, habits, or practices that help us to cope with adversity arise from 5 domains of the human...
by MBPdoctor | Dec 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Medicine is a career with many stresses and many rewards. Some stressors are not too different from other careers, but many appear to be unique to the practice of medicine. Young people enter the field of medicine for many reasons. Some are natural healing...
by MBPdoctor | Oct 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Happiness made simple: The 10 basic building blocks of happiness for most everyone Dog on lap. Fresh brewed coffee in hand. Sunlight streaming through open window. Good book waiting on side table. At such times happiness seems so achingly simple. Yet most of the...
by MBPdoctor | Apr 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
LH Pastor, MD, April 2024 Good for you, clicking on the intriguing title of this month’s blog post! After all, Curiosity is a quintessential resiliency strength! Curiosity leads us to discover new and often remarkable things! Notwithstanding, I hope you weren’t...
by MBPdoctor | Aug 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Presented at the 2017 Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Services Continuing Education ConferenceAlexandria, Virginiaby Larry H. Pastor, M.D. Intro When we look at crisis intervention for the suicidal patient, what do we think of?Hospitalize, crisis care, discharge to...
by MBPdoctor | Jul 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Larry H. Pastor, MD Et in Arcadia Ego by Nicolas Poussin Sober Anticipation of Death (SAD): psychiatrist George Vaillant identified “anticipation” as a key defense mechanism of high-functioning individuals.[1] SAD, short for “sober anticipation of death”, is a...
by MBPdoctor | May 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
A brief description of the Resiliency Strengths found in books, movies, & stories Larry H. Pastor A resiliency strength is a strength, attitude, belief, habit, or behavior that we rely on when going through rough times, in order to help deal with bad...
by MBPdoctor | Mar 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
The core process in ADHD is a neuropsychiatric pattern of “response inhibition deficiency,” or “RID.” So, you may ask, what exactly is “RID”? Well, effective brain functioning depends more than anything else on our brain’s ability to inhibit excess or extraneous...
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