David Zuccolotto

David Zuccolotto

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  • The dangerous right to be human

    The dangerous right to be human

    "They threw her out the second-story window. She broke her arm and leg." I sat and listened to the Social Worker describe the incident while sitting in my office at the hospital where I worked.

  • America's mental health, COVID-19 and the Book of Job

    America's mental health, COVID-19 and the Book of Job

    The mental health of America took a beating in the year 2020. A pounding, unlike anything I have seen in my years as a psychologist. The COVID pandemic created a crisis of human identity and self-worth, leaving many to ask the more profound questions of life.

  • Two-faced gods and New Year's resolutions

    Two-faced gods and New Year's resolutions

    In 4000 B.C., the ancient Babylonians celebrated their new year by making promises to their gods. They believed that if they kept their word, the gods would look favorably on them for the year ahead.

  • Holiday blues and the magic kingdom

    Holiday blues and the magic kingdom

    If you want a measurement of stress, it is the distance between your ideals and reality. The greater the distance, the greater your anxiety and depression.

  • This thing called love

    This thing called love

    Then came that 8am patient and her husband dying from ALS. “My big question for the day is do I clean the kitchen or go snuggle with my husband on the couch, because the days seem short.” Sharing love with her husband trumped all other concerns.

  • Does COVID-19 cause mental health disorders?

    Does COVID-19 cause mental health disorders?

    All are saddened, frustrated and struggling with the turmoil COVID has caused, but not all are suicidal, relapsing on drugs, beating their children, abandoning their marriages or giving up on life. Everyone is peeling back the onion, but not all are falling apart. Why?

  • Spiritual depression

    Spiritual depression

    The easiest part of my job as a psychologist is science. Neurology, biochemistry and psychopharmacology. But in my experience life’s greatest heartaches are not biological but spiritual. 

  • Love doesn’t cast out all fear

    Love doesn’t cast out all fear

    In psychology, there is a difference between clinical anxiety and fear. Fear is a healthy function of survival. So how does fear and anxiety work in the Christian life?

  • I once was blind but now I am woked

    I once was blind but now I am woked

    When I was a young psychology intern my supervisor once said, “Most people who come for therapy already know what they want, they are just looking for affirmation.”

  • Do you want something to cry about?

    Do you want something to cry about?

    Recently I worked with a client who shared her fears about life. She talked about COVID and fears of losing her job. But then the conversation took an odd turn.

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