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		<title>Stroke: A Progress Report from Dr. Neill Neill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[...return to the hospital every day for 2 to 3 hours of outpatient intensive stroke rehabilitation...]]></description>
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		<title>WELCOME TO DR. NEILL NEILL&#8217;S PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here you will find hundreds of the practical insights I have gleaned from my years of professional and private life. As a columnist, I&#8217;ve written many articles about relationships, including codependency and addiction. But I&#8217;ve also shared insights into happiness, self-growth, mental health, trauma, grieving and other life issues. Just click on a category to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Disadvantage into a Gift &#8211; A Personal Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I invite you to look back over your life for your own handicaps or shortcomings, and for times when you felt disadvantaged. Then look for the gifts each may have produced in your life.]]></description>
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		<title>The Family Vacation Is Important for Mental Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I encourage others to take vacations for several reasons, the first one being family mental health. The vacation gives you a chance to step off the treadmill that living in a family often becomes. Left behind are the demands of employment, school, endless household management errands, hobbies, TV and volunteer work.]]></description>
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		<title>What Type of Emotional Legacy Are You Leaving your Family?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had remarried a couple of years before and was busy at home trying to establish a new consulting business. We had a typical family life with three teenagers at home with lots of distractions and noise; it was often hard to concentrate on my work.

My frustration was showing up in ways that I was barely aware of. One day my wife said to me very calmly, "Neill, it's bothering the kids how you are snapping at them. If you don't do something about it, you will end up as a lonely, grouchy old man."

What hit me was the thought that my family would remember me as a grouch. I could not allow that to be my emotional legacy. The internal shift was instantaneous.]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Stress, Blame and Alcohol</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is full of events that lead to personal distress. And stress can build upon stress which can lead to marriage problems.  If one of  you drinks to reduce stress, in time the drinking itself causes stress and becomes a major roadblock to solutions.

Quite naturally, you look around to see what's causing your distress and the only person there is your spouse, so you instinctively blame him or her for upsetting you.]]></description>
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		<title>DUI &#8211; Please Don&#8217;t Drink and Drive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. As I pause and look back over the alcohol-related deaths and injuries of people I've known, I feel sad that it is still happening.  A driver's speed with alcohol took our mother away from my three younger brothers and me when I was 16. She left the house. Within ten minutes there was a knock at the door. An uncle uttered the simple words, "Doreen is gone." Video: "Everbody Hurts."]]></description>
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		<title>Reduce Food Cravings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food cravings lead to consumption. Consumption leads to more food cravings. 'Tis the season for eating, drinking and otherwise celebrating with others...a great time of enjoyment, love, generosity and generally good feelings...good feelings accompany eating. And...we eat for those good feelings associated with foods we ate in the past...And we end up eating too much.
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		<title>Moral Evasion through Pop Psychology</title>
		<link>http://www.neillneill.com/moral-evasion-through-pop-psychology</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop psychology has worked its way into our culture. If a man makes a mistake, its OK to blame it on something he ate or an addiction he has. Has pop psychology made it so people no longer have to accept responsibility for their own actions? Is pop psychology making us a society of victims?
]]></description>
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		<title>The Recession: Opt Out of the Negative Psychology for Emotional and Material Well Being.</title>
		<link>http://www.neillneill.com/the-recession-opt-out-of-the-negative-psychology-for-emotional-and-material-well-being</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Neill Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of a possible recession in the US and around the world, the fear out there is palpable.  The gloom is affecting everyone, and stress makes you stupid.  What can be done? Why not opt out of the recession, and refuse to participate in the negative psychology of it.]]></description>
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