David Zuccolotto

David Zuccolotto

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  • Does COVID-19 cause mental health disorders?

    Does COVID-19 cause mental health disorders?

    All are saddened, frustrated and struggling with the turmoil COVID has caused, but not all are suicidal, relapsing on drugs, beating their children, abandoning their marriages or giving up on life. Everyone is peeling back the onion, but not all are falling apart. Why?

  • Spiritual depression

    Spiritual depression

    The easiest part of my job as a psychologist is science. Neurology, biochemistry and psychopharmacology. But in my experience life’s greatest heartaches are not biological but spiritual. 

  • Love doesn’t cast out all fear

    Love doesn’t cast out all fear

    In psychology, there is a difference between clinical anxiety and fear. Fear is a healthy function of survival. So how does fear and anxiety work in the Christian life?

  • I once was blind but now I am woked

    I once was blind but now I am woked

    When I was a young psychology intern my supervisor once said, “Most people who come for therapy already know what they want, they are just looking for affirmation.”

  • Do you want something to cry about?

    Do you want something to cry about?

    Recently I worked with a client who shared her fears about life. She talked about COVID and fears of losing her job. But then the conversation took an odd turn.

  • Book excerpt: Christian psychologist's journey through sorrow, pain, and steadfast love

    Book excerpt: Christian psychologist's journey through sorrow, pain, and steadfast love

    No subject challenges the love of God more than the problem of evil. Because of this problem, many people reject the idea of a loving God. What kind of God would let some of us prosper, and abandon others to the horrors of history?

  • The heart to triumph over life's obstacles

    The heart to triumph over life's obstacles

    After 35 years of working in mental health, certain patients have left a permanent impression. He was one of those individuals.

  • Anxiety: A load too heavy for God?

    Anxiety: A load too heavy for God?

    “Serenity” (the absence of stress) is the humility to know what you can and can’t control. How is that achieved?

  • Mudslinging Christians: A lesson from working with drug addicts

    Mudslinging Christians: A lesson from working with drug addicts

    Do Christians today bad mouth one another’s church programs? How do you think that appears to the nonbeliever? What about the Christian who is struggling with his faith?

  • The illusion of freedom

    The illusion of freedom

    This is the paradox of freedom. Childhood has the most rules and constraints yet the greatest freedom from psychological conflict.

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