The talented David Wisehart recently featured me on his website.  David Wisehart is a writer, director, producer, and, apparently, celebrity interviewer.
Go here:
http://kindle-author.blogspot.com/2011/08/kindle-author-interview-dr-matt.html

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Believe me, no one was more surprised than me when Sally Ann Bopkins came to my office this week. You may remember her from my wildly popular snack-sized book, Just Stop Having Problems, Stupid!, a book which is often handed out at the reception desk of many therapists and psych wards.

While I hadn’t seen her in years, I could instantly tell that Sally had changed. She was no longer dangerously overweight, and she didn’t walk around like a hurt puppy, certainly not a morbidly obese one.
I asked her what changed …

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Once in a while, someone will come into my apartment / office who I immediately know is going to be interesting.  I mean, someone who just really catches my attention for some undefinable reason.  I had a new client this week who I’ll call Jared Leto.  Hmm… I guess maybe I shouldn’t give him the name of a celebrity, so let’s give him a common name like Jor-El Leto.
Jor-El had a lot going for him, and not just his dashing good looks.  ”Dr. Matt, I hear you solve just about …

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With a busy schedule of public speaking and celebrity endorsements, I haven’t had time to take a lot of appointments from clients.  However, the other day, a client walked in that I hadn’t seen in a while.  He’s the one that I call Freddle, and since I was making up names for him, I thought it appropriate to give him some more, so you may remember him better as Freddle Dolly-Parton McMannohaggonbaum, which, let’s be honest, is far more interesting than his real name, which I’m actually starting to forget.

Anyway, …

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This month, I had another session with my client Dean, someone who I’ve mentioned a couple times before.  Dean was doing pretty well.  He seemed to have taken my advice, which was to recognize the potential that he carried with him at all times.  In fact, he’d gained such confidence in himself that he’d caught the eye of a lucky lady and had been in that new relationship for a few weeks.  I gotta say, that girl is fortunate to have a guy like Dean in her life, and likewise, …

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Folks, for a while I’ve been meeting regularly with a guy who I’ll call Dean.  And by meeting with him, I mean he comes to my apartment/office, gives me money, and I tell him what to do.
Dean was down in the dumps.  You see, his girlfriend had just ended their relationship, which, by all accounts, had lots of great sex in it.  I wish I could tell you more, but there’s a little thing called client confidentiality.

So, naturally, Dean was grieving and missing what he enjoyed about that experience.  ”I …

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A while ago I talked about choice and freedom, calling them “somewhat important”.  Now, I figured you might know that I understate things, so if I say that something is “somewhat” important, then I fully expect some of you to tattoo that message somewhere on your body.  But, perhaps because you didn’t, it gives me an opportunity to talk about these two funny words.

Recently, I was talking to a client of mine that you would know by the alias, “Freddle Dolly-Parton McMannohaggonbaum.”  Remember him?  He was having issues with confidence. …

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Folks, I know that you may think that with all my online hullabaloo, that I’m good at computers.  It’s simply not the case.  If God wanted us to be good at computing, he would have given us computing devices in our bodies that sent out electrical signals every which way.  He didn’t, so I’m fine with where I’m at.

Anyway, the guy I turn to to solve my computer issues is a guy I know named Jeff.  I’ve been counseling him about his depression, so I’d better not give his last …

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Folks, I was having lunch with a colleague of mine who works in a similar field as I do.  That is, his business produces and sells magnetic bracelets for their healing properties, so we’re both in the fake health industry.  Jim was telling me about his latest relationship.  Now, Jim has only dated guys in the past, and many of his friends assume that means he’s only attracted to men.  But this latest relationship started with a female friend of his, and hence Jim’s dilemma.

You see, for a long time …

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My friend Roger and I were at the gym attempting to fulfill our New Year’s Promises, namely ones involving carrying less fat around the chin area.  We occasionally chit-chat, though not always.  I’d been in the treadmill zone for about ten minutes when he said, “So, Midgie is going to be speaking on Sunday.”  (Midgie is a mutual friend of ours who is as fun and interesting as her name sounds, and in the interest of full disclosure, someone that both Roger and I have made love to, but not at the …