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TREAT YOURSELF LIKE SOMEONE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING WHY WON’T YOU JUST TAKE YOUR DAMN PILLS? Imagine that a hundred people are prescribed a drug. Consider what happens next. One-third of them won’t fill the prescription. 30 Half of the remaining sixty-seven will fill it, but won’t take the medication correctly. They’ll miss doses. They’ll quit taking it early. They might not even take it at all. Physicians and pharmacists tend to blame such patients for their noncompliance, inaction and error. You can lead a horse to water, they reason. Psychologists tend to take a dim view of such judgments. We are trained to assume that the failure of patients to follow professional advice is the fault of the practitioner, not the patient. We believe the health-care provider has a responsibility to profer advice that will be followed, offer interventions that will be respected, plan with the patient or client until the desired result is achieved, and follow up to ensur
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Lessons in Life!

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livestrong.com RULE 1 STAND UP STRAIGHT WITH YOUR SHOULDERS BACK LOBSTERS—AND TERRITORY If you are like most people, you don’t often think about lobsters 2 —unless you’re eating one. However, these interesting and delicious crustaceans are very much worth considering. Their nervous systems are comparatively simple, with large, easily observable neurons, the magic cells of the brain. Because of this, scientists have been able to map the neural circuitry of lobsters very accurately. This has helped us understand the structure and function of the brain and behaviour of more complex animals, including human beings. Lobsters have more in common with you than you might think (particularly when you are feeling crabby—ha ha). Lobsters live on the ocean floor. They need a home base down there, a range within which they hunt for prey and scavenge around for stray edible bits and pieces of whatever rains down from the continual chaos of carnage and death far above
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