Yousuf Raza

Psychiatrist | Logotherapy | PhD Psychology (Candidate) | Founder Telepsychiatry Pakistan

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If you spend more time talking about God than talking to God, then your god may be ostentatiousness. And if you spend time talking to God but can't talk about Him at all, then your god may be an escape from reality.

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I love reading with my son. These days we are reading Sherlock Holmes and Conference of the Birds. For many years now, I’ve been wanting to get back to reading quality fiction, but never could make the time for it. Now that my boy is old enough,we can take these books on together

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“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me,” said Freud. And sure enough, Bullay Shah captures our obsession with the Titan:

بُلھا شاہ، اساں مرنا ناہیں
گور پیا کوئی ہور۔

“Bullay Shah, we are not going to die. It’s somebody else in the grave.”

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What would drive people to spend so much, and risk practically everything, to witness what remains of the tragedy of another people?

#titan #OceanGateSub

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What do we do? We watch/read about somebody else’s tragedy, secretly (often unconsciously) relishing in our own supposed immortality.

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Such a culture relegates these values as outdated religiosity but is at odds with its own ideals of scientific truth and social justice.

#religion #extramaritalaffairs #modesty

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An extramarital affair is not proof of your manhood. It is proof of how you have failed to grow up and become a real man. A culture that justifies infidelity using flawed biology and psychology as rationalization is deeply sick.

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Similarly, a culture that fails to uphold values of modesty, which promote trust within families, is a culture ignorant of basic biology and psychology.

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The frustration, despair, and health anxiety in our society testifies to how a disproportionate concern is directed towards 1) and 2) and 3) are almost completely neglected.

#psych #psychology #psychologist #psychiatry #psychiatrist #medschool

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Completely alleviating suffering from one’s life is a lost cause. 1) You alleviate what you can, 2) find meaning in what you can’t, 3) and suffer towards something meaningful regardless.

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But everyone employing it for whichever of the myriad functions it can perform must ask themselves what that cost is and if they are okay with paying it in the long run.

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ChatGPT has probably been more effective against anxiety than most anti-anxiety drugs developed in the past two decades. And without a doubt it is, like so much before it, an incredible testimony to the brilliance of human intelligence-

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Nevertheless, with everything that promises to be an anxiolytic, in any way whatsoever, it comes at a cost. The cost may well be worth paying.

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Can I? I don't know for certain. But there's only one way to find out: I have to believe that I can. Uncertainty isn't necessarily the opposite of belief.
It necessitates belief.

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Beware the unqualified slogan “follow your passions.”

For one thing, it refuses to acknowledge the pervasiveness of perverse passions.

Is it a wonder that a popularizing of this slogan is paralleled by an increase in exploitation and abuse?

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Beware irreligious religiosity. The more dead its essence the louder its disputations. It pretends to invite, but focuses mainly on exclusions.

#good #bad #evil #prophet #loveoftheprophet #islam #muslims #psych #psychology #psychologist