David Zuccolotto

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  Dec 2, 2020

  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.

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  Nov 24, 2020

  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.

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  Nov 2, 2020

  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?

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  Sep 27, 2020

  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. 

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  Sep 17, 2020

  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?

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  Sep 5, 2020

  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.”

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  Aug 22, 2020

  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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  Aug 11, 2020

  Book excerpt: Christian psychologist's journey through sorrow, pain, and steadfast love

  No subject challenges the love of God more than the problem of evil. Because of this problem, many people reject the idea of a loving God. What kind of God would let some of us prosper, and abandon others to the horrors of history?

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  Aug 6, 2020

  The heart to triumph over life's obstacles

  After 35 years of working in mental health, certain patients have left a permanent impression. He was one of those individuals.

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  Jul 26, 2020

  Anxiety: A load too heavy for God?

  “Serenity” (the absence of stress) is the humility to know what you can and can’t control. How is that achieved?