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What is the truth?

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by Lee Outlaw, PhD As I begin this article, let me say from the onset, I am not a medical doctor, however as my own GP recently reminded me, I am a Doctor of Psychology and my counsel and opinion are valuable and I should never apologize for being a doctor; no matter what my specialty. I should also point out however, that I did work for a very large Pharmaceutical Company in my twenties and I learned a lot about medical research, trial studies and test subjects. Never in the history of our country has the question of “What is the truth” been more important with all the concern about Covid-19 and the Delta Variant. Over the past month, I have seen four separate doctors; each for different reasons; 3 specialists and my GP. Each ask if I had one of the Covid-19 vaccines and each volunteered their own thoughts on why I should consider getting the vaccine since for various reasons I have not gotten vaccinated which I will later go into. Only one of the four doctors was insistent that I sho
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The age old question returns: “What is wrong with people?”

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Riot/Protest in Minneapolis What is wrong with people? by Dr. Lee Outlaw  With the death of George Floyd in the news, the age old question returns: “What is wrong with people?” In general the question seems to be both cross generational and cross cultural but overall the intricacy of the question can be broken down as follows: The negative behavior of people (both individually and within any group) seems to be a result of the following: 1. People don’t think things through thoroughly 2. People generally tend to take the easy way out 3. People tend to care more about themselves than the greater good of others 4. People tend to care more about themselves than the law 5. People tend to care more about themselves than God and their faith 6. People care more about feelings than consequences 7. People tend to believe the unbelievable but can’t believe in an all knowing and all powerful God. In the area of psychology, we refer to this study of people
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Precious memories

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As those of us from the “Baby boomer” generation continue to get older, there’s an increasing discussion about memory; the loss of it from age or disease as well as ways to increase and restore memory. As a psychologist I have always been aware of hypnotherapy, regression therapy, the power of suggestion and a variety of short term memory induced medications which have the ability to expand the far reaches of our mind. The hippie movement and psychedelic drug use of hallucinogenic medications such as LSD along with the research of Dr. Timothy Leary as well as Angel Dust and others brought new meaning to the terms of “getting high” and “mind expansion”. Ironically, these illegal medications were in wide use by the military in an attempt to seek out how much the human mind could be expanded for use in memory and neurological research. Reportedly, the results were quite incredible. Many test subjects claimed they could remember all the way back to th
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Ageless wonders

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My late father used to say, “Just wait till you get to be my age boy”. Of course, like many of our parents that was one of many of my Dad’s favorite sayings to me throughout his long life of 83 years; from the time I can remember till just before he died. The older we get, the more we tend to reflect on our age and the past. If it’s not the result of a deep lingering memory, it’s that old sports injury or new diagnosed illness which creeps up behind us, taps us on the shoulder and says, “you’re old”; you want to just turn around and slap it but then you realize you can’t turn around like that anymore. None of us want to believe we’re getting older. I know a writer I met a few years back in her nineties told me she couldn’t believe she was as old as she was because she just didn’t feel like it. One of my university “Geriatric psychology” professors used to say, “You can try to run from it, ignore it or simply change the subject but the fact is, if you’re lucky age
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