Dale Archer famous quotes

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.
-- Dale Archer

#Motivation #Greatness #Trying

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
-- Dale Archer

#Running #Keys #Accepting

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
-- Dale Archer

#Addiction #Rehab #Action

Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.
-- Dale Archer

#Fall #College #Doors

Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
-- Dale Archer

#Real #Past #College

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.
-- Dale Archer

#Heart #Sleep #Racing

To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.
-- Dale Archer

#Skills #Important #Done

Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.
-- Dale Archer

#Stress #Mind #Let It Go

Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
-- Dale Archer

#Real #Liars #Personality

Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!
-- Dale Archer

#Jobs #Giving Up #Kids

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
-- Dale Archer

#Book #Reading #Stories

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.
-- Dale Archer

#Children #Divorce #Thinking

Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
-- Dale Archer

#Emotional #Keys #Understanding

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don’t do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job, that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify,
-- Dale Archer

#Jobs #School #Addiction

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.
-- Dale Archer

#Children #Parenting #Class

You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.
-- Dale Archer

#Forever #Brain #Events