Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just as satisfying is the mental labor. A couple of years out of college he visited a sports psychologist to talk about his training. But the sessions turned into something more: discussions about how to integrate Dan O'Brien the athlete with Dan O'Brien the person. "It was really, really interesting for me," he says now. "I was happy practicing, but I wasn't happy all the time. I kept wondering what would it be like if I was just a normal person, if I had a normal job." Now, he says, he no longer wonders. The "world...
...extent to which the "who is this unmasked man?!" debate has occupied the minds and chatter of Beltway barhoppers is stunning. More than it underscores the mental lethargy of Washingtonians as they steam like dumplings outside (maybe losing brain power along with water weight), it suggests a disengagement in politics by even political operatives...
...Then the mental stagnation made sense. No one really had much else to do except be hot in a dorm room and be glad senior year, with all its seriousness, hadn't quite arrived...
Blame is being cast back and forth. Marty Hernandez says he does not understand why the school did not get Amber into impact counseling. San Pedro officials, meanwhile, insist that they are doing all they can, what with budget cuts not only at the school level but in county mental-health services as well. The one school psychologist for 3,100 pupils works "almost full time," according to principal Stephen Walters, but focuses on special-education students. San Pedro's impact counselors are simply dedicated teachers with a little extra training that consists of three to seven days of workshops...
HOWIE VOGEL, 47; NEW YORK CITY; social worker A self-proclaimed "cultural warrior," he spent 15 years homeless, in and out of mental-health institutions. As the executive director of Double Trouble, he's on the other side of the examining table. Each year the 12-step program aids hundreds of people who are carrying the dual burden of psychiatric illness and narcotics addiction. To Vogel those he counsels are "not just patients but people I actually identify with...