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Dr Braccio & Mike Austin of 1320 AM discuss HOW TO HELP THOSE WHO FEEL IRRELEVANT AND DO NOT MATTER

July 9, 2025 It surprises me, in an age with so much communication bombarding us from all directions and our often interacting with persons with messages, emails and many other types of communication, that so many people feel irrelevant and do not matter. It is psychologically a very bad place to be. It is estimated one in three persons have feelings of loneliness. These persons do not just include those who are isolated and feeling lost in the world. No, these are often persons who are successful but still feel irrelevant and not mattering regardless of the position they hold in life. The important thing for a person is to feel they are relevant and matter to others. Family and close friends would head the list of those we want to see us as relevant and mattering. This also would include those we interact with and try to be helpful in their lives. The average person is interacting with email ,messaging and many other social platforms with people on a regular basis. They also may regularly interact in settings including their homes, work environments and social settings where they feel they are irrelevant and do not matter. When this occurs, the person is at risk of developing anxiety, depression, and severe loneliness, regardless of how they might appear in the world. This can cause physical problems such as high blood pressure and general physical feelings of exhaustion. I have worked with various persons who have high positions in society, but really feel no one understands them or cares. They feel the praise and compliments they receive are more perfunctory than true. Data consistently show that high percentages of workers feel they are not appreciated for who they are and no one really cares how they are doing as long as they complete the activities that are required. This leads to feelings of irrelevancy and they do not matter. The following are suggestions on what you can do to help persons who feel they are irrelevant and do not matter: 1. Assume anyone you interact with feels irrelevant and does not matter to some degree in their lives. 2. Work hard to understand how persons truly feel about themselves and use this knowledge to try to help them. 3. Genuinely notice and praise persons for qualities you see in them and their achievements. 4. With family and friends, pay close attention to the roles persons have and applaud them for what they do. Persons in families and organizations often feel taking care of the needs of others leads to complements that really relate more to what they deserve to receive and are not fully acknowledging the kindness and intention of what were given. 5. You will become a better person for your attempts to understand and help those who feel irrelevant and do not matter to anyone. This new outlook and behaviors can also help you better advocate for yourself in interactions with others if you feel you are irrelevant and do not matter to anyone.

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Dr Braccio & Mike Austin of 1320AM discuss WHEN NOT TO MAKE A DECISION

June 24, 2025- It constantly amazes me how people are willing to make major decisions without a lot of thought into how they are doing emotionally. They may feel they need to make a decision and they make it regardless of of the emotional or physical state they are in to make such a decision. My point is not to say one must spend a lot of time before they make any decisions by checking off some list of factors. No, my point is that good decision-making requires a process that a person has developed to effectively use to make sure they do not make bad decisions. Included would be the following: 1. Full awareness of their emotional condition in relation to such things as anxiety, depression, and a reasonable view of what is occurring in their lives. 2. Determine important decisions will not be made when struggling emotionally, physically fatigued, very tired, or overwhelmed with the responsibilities of life. 3. Prioritize when important decisions need to be made and make them after careful thought. Persons often spend a lot of time thinking about decisions that are really not that important and do not focus on things that are critical in their lives. 4. Do not make decisions if in a hurry or distracted in a manner that does not allow you to fully pay attention to decisions you are making. 5. If you are not sure what to do, it is wise to talk to an expert or someone you trust prior to making what could be a bad decision. 6. Set reasonable timelines/deadlines for making a decision rather than constantly ruminating and debating what to do. 7. Determine the options or choices prior to making decisions. Persons often make decisions, even important ones like buying or selling a home, buying a car, accepting or not accepting a job or job promotion, without really weighing the impact the choice will make in their lives. 8. Make sure you take control of your decision-making. Do not make bad decisions based on input from persons who may be pressing you or pushing you to do something you have no desire to do, and quite candidly may not be in your best interest. 9. When you cannot make a choice and you are in the situation of constantly thinking about something and not able to make a decision, the best thing to do is not make a decision and sleep on it. Things often seem clearer after a good night’s sleep and your chances of not making a bad decision are much higher.

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Dr Braccio & Mike Austin of 1320 discuss THE POWER OF BAD MEMORIES- subscribe to our YouTube page!

June 10, 2025- It always amazes me how bad memories can cloud the life of a person who actually has a lot of happy and good memories and positive things going on right now that will create more good memories. There is a belief this is because human beings needed in times past to stay away from dangers we no longer experience in our lives on a daily basis. A bad memory could help the person stay away from danger if in the past a particular food might have poisoned them. It also could help you stay away from dangerous persons, dangerous animals, or anything in the environment that could potentially be dangerous to a person. This does not mean that happy experiences are not things we love to think about and enjoy. No, that is not my point at all. The point is if a person honestly analyzes what they think about, they will admit they often think too much about times they have failed or did things they wish they had not done. While negative thinking may have been important in times past when matters of life and death could depend on using bad experiences from the past to effectively deal with the same potential problem in the present, such negativity is no longer necessary and something to try to overcome and not be allowed to darken your life in ways that you now cannot enjoy it. I can verify many persons I have worked with in my private practice as a psychologist or have known as I have walked the road of life have been consumed by fear, depression and high anxiety as they worry about the past and have problems dealing in the present because of it. To overcome the power of negative thinking resulting from overthinking on bad memories, it is important to put things in perspective by recognizing too much focusing on them can lead to high levels of anxiety and depression. You need to mindfully choose not to do this and focus on positive thinking and replacing negative thoughts with positive ones. As easy as this sounds, it is amazing how many people have problems replacing negative thoughts with positive ones. I actually believe it is the most important thing one can do when negativity is overwhelming them and they have problems seeing anything positive. It is important to make a mindful effort to think about positive experiences and keep them in your mind with the goal of having them happen again and not allowing negative thoughts to destroy the happiness that can come from remembering and ruminating on them. The saber toothed tiger is not going to eat you! So quit worrying about it and any other unreasonable things. A positive life with past and ongoing memory making is yours for the taking!

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