1. I hate telling people what to do. Do this, don't do that. Eat this, don't eat that. And if you don't listen to me, that means there is something wrong with you.
2. I don't totally trust what I tell people. Like, when the guy comes in with high cholesterol, I don't truly believe that what I'm telling him to do can help. Maybe I'm telling him the opposite of what he really should do.
3. I don't really know how to help people change. Telling them what they need to change isn't exactly the most efficient way to help people change. If anything, it's only detrimental. They won't be able to do what I tell them to do and then they'll feel badly about themselves as if they failed when they weren't ready for those changes to begin with.
4. My patients have a different goal than I have for them. They want to be Twiggy. I want them to be healthy. OK, so they also want to be healthy but the most important thing is for them to be thin. "Luckily" being Twiggy and healthy supposedly go together but I don't believe they necessarily do. If anything, the weight obsession, whether you're thin or not, is one of the most unhealthy things you're doing to yourself. It leads to an extreme state of lack of emotional health. You hate yourself. And yet it's all a myth you built up in your own mind.
I'm sure more on my hating my job, to come.
QE
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