Dr. Charles Glassman
Charles F. Glassman, MD has practiced internal medicine for over 25 years. Over this time, he has observed that many medical problems and physical symptoms arise from our ability or inability to effectively manage the challenges of everyday life. In 2002, he became the tenth doctor in the US to form what is known as a concierge or patient-focused practice. Such a practice has permitted him time to explore how stress interferes with our ability to obtain optimal, holistic health—balancing mind, body, and spirit. His first book, the award winning and Amazon category bestseller Brain Drain, is a handbook on how to overcome common roadblocks to success and a joyful deeply meaningful life. Learn more here .
Articles by Dr. Charles Glassman
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When Your Tribe Starts Thinking for You
Groups today look different than they did eons ago, yet the goal is essentially the same: safety. A stray is far more vulnerable to attack than a member of the herd.
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Healthspan Over Lifespan: What I’m Actually Doing to Stay Strong as I Age
The goal was never to live longer for its own sake. It was to still be able to get up off the floor without anyone’s help.
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The Fear Behind Michael Jackson’s Extraordinary Life
When Being Extraordinary Still Isn't Enough...
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Your Doctor Was Never Meant To Fix You
Why fear makes patients seek rescue—and doctors rush to provide it. For more than thirty years, I practiced internal medicine.
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The One Thing You Should Never Forget About Yourself
I want you to remember what you like about yourself. When you do that, the bad times will seem less bad and less long
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250 Years Later, America Still Faces Its Oldest Enemy
What the framers understood about human nature that we keep forgetting about ourselves. **Ever since I began writing about the distinction between the Automatic Brain and the Mind, people have approached me to praise the work.
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You Carry a Narcissist Around Every Day
The same 5 tactics you hate in other people? Your brain may be running them on you right now.
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What a 53-Year Championship Drought Can Teach Us About Resilience
That is how long it had been since the New York Knicks last won an NBA championship. And now, finally, they had done it again.
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The Most Dangerous Place to Live Is What's Familiar
How self-honesty and self-discipline help us stop obeying fear. My book, Fear Is a Liar , spends a great deal of time exposing the machinery of our primitive nature — that part of us programmed into the nervous system to protect the physical body from harm.
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Courage Is Sometimes Walking Away Instead of Stepping Forward
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the refusal to let fear choose your life. Memorial Day weekend is a time when we remember courage in its most visible form.
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Before You Judge Someone’s Reaction, Listen for Fear Underneath It
What strangers online are revealing about anxiety, anger, shame, and the fear we keep mistaking for truth.
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What Mother’s Day Reveals About Love and the Need to Feel Safe
Mother’s Day can remind us where fear first learned what love, approval, and security meant.
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Vulnerability Isn’t Weakness—It’s What Makes People Trust You
How vulnerability reveals the person the Automatic Brain works so hard to protect. Vulnerability is my greatest asset. I stumbled upon this idea when I began writing some years ago.
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Fear Feeds Itself: Understanding the Loop and Regaining Control
It usually begins with something much smaller: a look, a word, a memory, a possibility, a sensation in the body, or a thought we did not invite in.
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That “Perfect” Life Isn’t What You Think
Again and again, we are reminded that what looks like paradise to the world can be something very different behind closed doors.
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Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Part—Convincing Your Brain It’s Safe Is
The hidden fear that keeps us in what we know isn’t right. Last week, a story surfaced that has gripped me.
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Patients and Doctors Share a Problem Medicine Rarely Names
What 30 Years of Medicine Taught Me That No Textbook Said. I’ve spent more than three decades in exam rooms.
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You’re Not Defending Truth. You’re Defending Yourself.
Have you ever noticed how difficult it is—not just for others, but for yourself—to genuinely consider that you might be wrong?
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Better Feels Uncomfortable: What Your Brain Is Really Doing During Recovery
No one likes being sick—or do they? It’s a difficult question. It almost feels wrong to even ask.
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Fear Is a Liar: Understanding Voice Inside Your Head
Have you ever noticed how a single thought can suddenly change how you feel?
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Pain, Fear, and Routine Often Come From Same Habit Loop
AB almost always has the upper hand. Its fight-or-flight mechanism is powerful, physiologically compelling, and deeply rooted in our evolutionary past.
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How Fear Hijacks Conviction and Divides Us
In times that feel chaotic, the difference between reflex and reflection may shape far more than we realize.
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Someone Else’s Light Doesn’t Dim Yours — Unless You Let It
But if we are honest, there can also be something else mixed in, something less noble and far more human.
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Can’t Sleep? Your Brain May Think You’re in Danger
The body was tired. The brain was not. It makes no sense—until you understand what’s happening beneath the surface.
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Certainty, Pride, and the Posture That Shapes Our Thinking
In times that feel confusing or unstable, taking a firm position brings relief. The sense of exposure eases. Things feel more manageable.
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When Disagreement Starts Feeling Dangerous
Labels arrive quickly. Motives are assigned. And the space for genuine discussion collapses almost instantly.
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Why Urgency Tricks You Into Acting When Nothing Really Matters
We tend to think of FOMO as a modern problem, something created by social media or constant connectivity.
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Seven Traits Of A Serial Victim
Most self-help, personal growth , and motivational advice is consistent with the declaration that a victim mentality is bad for us: physically bad, emotionally bad, and spiritually bad.
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The Elimination Diet
Most of you “tuning in” to this blog likely believe you are about to read a handy-dandy, quick way to lose weight.
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The Top 12 Supplements for Anxiety & Depression
Among the most heavily prescribed medications are those for mental health issues ranging from general anxiety and depression to full blown psychosis.
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Don't Let Fear Guide You ... Steve Jobs Did
As I learn more about the death of Steve Jobs from a form of pancreatic cancer and the attempts he made to treat it, I think about how we all go about making decisions.
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When Someone You Love Continues to Repeat Self-Destructive Behavior
If someone lies in the bed they made, you don’t have to tuck them in; but you don’t have to hop in bed with them either.
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13 Divine Properties Of Water
Many of us are waiting for that miracle, you know, the big one—the one that will confirm our belief in something larger than ourselves.
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Find The Man (Or Woman) Of Your Dreams
There are few species, in the animal kingdom, that seek a mate more than humans.
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7 Traits Of A Serial Victim
Most self-help, personal growth, and motivational advice is consistent with the declaration that a victim mentality is bad for us: physically bad, emotionally bad, and spiritually bad.
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11 Ways To Overcome Self-Doubt & Fear of the Unknown
I certainly don’t have all the answers, but over twenty five years in medical practice, I have seen a lot, learned a lot, and feel I have gotten a pretty solid peak into the human condition.
