Dr. Joe Guse

03/05/2026

I was watching an old favorite movie the other day from my formative years called "Vision Quest." I got to the scene where they are discussing the poem, "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child, by Gerard Manley Hopkins’

Anyway, I booked a trip home to see my mother the next day.

https://youtu.be/lnAPf4hP0hE?si=EpWibquiKE5IuEAo

Louden Swain: I figure the girl in the poem's about my age. She's feeling sad about the leaves falling from the trees, and the poet, he tells her that what she's really sad about is that she's beginning to realize she's going to die someday, too. The thing is, she's already dying.

Tanneran: Is that a good thing to realize, or do you think maybe we'd be better off not thinking about it?

Louden Swain: I don't know. Nobody likes to think about it. I don't like to think about it. But if you don't, you might go through life thinking you've got plenty of time. You put off the really important stuff until later, and pretty soon, before you know it, there's no more time left, you've blown it.

180 likes, 6 comments. "Louden Swain - Poetry for Wrestlers"

01/04/2026

Panel I sat on last week regarding Connections. An interesting mix of panelists. I was the ADHD guy.

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19/03/2026

I had to think about this for a moment, but realized it is an incredibly important distinction. So many of us have a critical voice that we just accept as fact. "I'm not good enough," "I'm not thin enough," "I'm too old," and on and on it goes. But what if we learned to talk back to that voice and challenge it? To understand that thoughts are most certainly not facts.

The amazing thing is, we are often great at doing this for others. But very few of us learn to do it for ourselves.

18/03/2026

Sometimes you have to remind yourself there is still some good in this world.

Mr. Kuroki, an elderly man who lived in Shintomi Town in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, had a very big love for his wife. It gave him the inspiration, the will, and the power to create extraordinary beauty. The couple had married in 1956 and lived a modest life running a small dairy farm on their little plot of land. They worked hard managing 60 cows and 2 children. They saved a little bit over the years and tagged it for a future trip so they could see the rest of their native country.

When after 30 years of marriage, Mrs. Kuroki went blind, she lost her will to live. She became a recluse. Sad that she could no longer see, Mr. Kuroki spent the next 2 years of his life laboring to create an astonishing massive garden around their home, just so she could smell the flowers. Mr. Kuroki had discovered that shibazakura, or the moss phlox, a pink-colored flower, had an exceptionally sweet smell. So he chopped down a few trees and cleared the land where the couple’s dairy farm once operated, and he planted hundreds of thousands of these special blooms.

Mrs. Kuroki began to venture outside, lured by the fragrance. Her smile and her joie de vivre returned. Word began to spread about Mr. Kuroki’s labors of love and the magnificent garden he planted and visitors began to arrive to see it and hear the story directly. And now, about 7,000 people from all over Japan come to visit the garden every day in springtime, during March and April, to witness Mr. Kuroki’s labor of love and smell the fruits of his labor.

15/02/2026

One of the most interesting projects I did as a graduate student was review movies though a psychological lens. I enjoyed it so much I taught the same class when I was a professor.

It was something I missed, so I decided to start reviewing movies again, using clinical psychology as a place to start.

The Plague February 09, 2026 3.5 Stars out of 4   The recent TV series Adolescence, created quite a stir around the world. It even produced the youngest Emmy winner ever in Owen Cooper. It's a tough watch and extremely thought-provoking. The essential question asking, "What the hell is happening wi...

04/02/2026

The cycle of undiagnosed ADHD

03/02/2026

Having been around workplace psychology for some time, I would agree with all of these (and honestly add several more.)

20/01/2026

I find a lot of people with Neurodivergence eventually go through this cycle.

08/01/2026

One challenge for people with ADHD is prioritizing tasks as well as avoiding tasks that appear tedious or boring. Here is an excellent summary from the book, "Eat that Frog" that has a lot of useful strategies in how to combat this.

30/12/2025

I found this to be an interesting piece of work. In the end, a good question is, "Where does someone's harsh inner critic actually come from? Where dies it originate? Surely we aren't born to be so hard on ourselves.

This is well done. It might not explain ALL harsh inner critics, but it's certainly a start.

28/11/2025