Dr. Gary Bell's Absurd Psychology

Ghosting means suddenly discontinuing all contact with another person to end a relationship. Ghosting can be failing to respond to a text exchange with someone you’ve never met, cutting off contact with someone you’ve dated a few times, or even refusing to return someone’s calls after a sexual involvement. Tune in and learn about how to work through the ghosting betrayal!

We all live a constant battle of pride vs humility, which is really just a war against two half’s of the same person. It’s you verses you. You are the only opponent against your inner greatness—against your humility. A person might consider their ego a great part of them, but the true greatness of a person is found in what motivates them and how they conduct themselves. Tune in and learn about pride and humility and how we shape ourselves!

Each of us tries to erect a boundary around the parts of ourself we want to keep private, or at least shielded from those with whom we’re not intimate. Some people are more vigilant about raising those firewalls than others, however, which can lead to discomfort, if not open conflict, because it’s harder to keep others’ revelations out than it is. In healthy relationships, romantic or otherwise we attune ourselves to others’ boundaries by making gradual “bids of trust.” For example, on a first date you might confess that you’d had a tough day at work because your boss was snippy to you. If the other person doesn’t say anything back, chances are you wouldn’t further extend bids of trust are lessened when there’s no reciprocity. You’re suddenly not safe with this person.

Although we might use the term in a different way in our everyday life (e.g., “Hey, he’s really got an attitude!”), social psychologists reserve the term attitude to refer to our relatively enduring evaluation of something, where the something is called the attitude object. The attitude object might be a person, a product, or a social group . Tune in and learn how attitude and behavior influence our lives!

No matter what their reasons or how they approach the question, agnostics and atheists are fundamentally different, but also non-exclusive. Many people who adopt the label of agnostic simultaneously reject the label of atheist, even if it technically applies to them. In addition, there's a common misconception that agnosticism is somehow a more “reasonable” position while atheism is more “dogmatic,” ultimately indistinguishable from theism except in the details. This is not a valid argument because it misrepresents or misunderstands everything involved: atheism, theism, agnosticism, and even the nature of belief itself. Tune in and learn about how more about non-belief.

Sexless Marriage arrives in many ways, shapes, forms and fashion. The statics are astonishing. The definition of a sexless marriage is couples who have sex less than 10 times a year. Some are agreed to be this way, others are medical and some are just downright complicated. I see sexless marriage in therapy nearly every day. Sadly, it does not need to be this way. We will focus on how a marriage arrives at this and reveal how to reopen the love and fill your reopen your sense of completeness. Listen in and learn!

Political uncertainty can be challenging, regardless of your beliefs or where you might fall on the political spectrum. For many Americans, the transition of power and the rapid speed of change may cause stress and anxiety about the political environment and the future of our nation. APA’s Stress in America™ survey revealed that 69 percent of Americans say the future of our nation is a significant source of stress, and 62 percent say that they are stressed by the current political climate. Symptoms of stress can vary from person to person but often include a combination of emotional (worry, tension, irritability) and physical (headaches, insomnia, stomach problems) reactions. Tune in and learn how to cope with this divided world.

Pornography, often colloquially referred to as porn, is any sexually explicit material—written, visual, or otherwise—that is intended to sexually arouse. While pornography has existed in some form for millennia, today it’s most readily available online—though it continues to be widely available in literature, audio, magazines, and more. The increasing presence of the Internet in daily life has led to a rapid spread of porn: The world’s largest such site claims that in 2018, it had a daily average of 92 million unique viewers, the vast majority of them males.  What effect does the ubiquity of porn have on individuals and relationships? Is it a harmless pastime or a pernicious addiction? Is it a fun way to add spice to a couple's sex life, a relationship destroyer, or potentially both? Tine in for better insight as to how pornography effects our lives!

The ancient Greek philosophers were pretty much obsessed with the idea of a good life. Their whole way of life was organized around ideas about what makes a human life “good” or “noble” or “worthwhile.” While others pursued commerce, politics, or war, the philosophers tried to figure out why these things mattered. Each philosophical school had its own answers, but Aristotle’s was one of the most influential. His philosophy was successful in part because it showed the unity of all these pursuits: a merchant, a politician, and a soldier were all, Aristotle argued, doing more or less the same thing–chasing some kind of Eudaimonia.