CAN’T FINISH
When I first started my residency in psychiatry at Duke University, I still had a lot of extreme obsessive-compulsive traits, but I had no idea that I was obsessive-compulsive. When I began reading the standard psychiatry textbook on the obsessive-compulsive personality, I carefully studied each page for about twenty minutes, trying to memorize everything on it. Two weeks later, I had covered only about forty pages when I read that obsessive-compulsives seldom read a book. They accumulate a lot of books, but they seldom finish reading one, because they spend so much time, pouring over each page, trying to memorize everything. Suddenly that information hit me between the eyes. I had to admit that I had all the traits I had been reading about for the past two weeks. That made me so angry that I slammed the book shut. And to this day I haven’t finished reading it. From Before Burnout, pgs. 16 & 17, by The Minirth-Meier Clinic, published by…
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