Author: Shocki, PhD, LMFT, LCSW
Dr Shocki has over thirty years experience in the behavior health field. He has founded and directs the Life Source Center, Inc., located in Plantsville Connecticut. Services include behavior health counseling dealing with relationship issues, persons struggling with various anxiety and depressive maladies and those individuals struggling to develop improved stategies to cope with the world around them. Dr. Shocki has also written a book entitled "Take Charge of Your Life or Someone Else Will" The book is available electronically free upon request at lifesourcecenter @aol.com.
If we have free choice, then why keep making bad choices?
It is true that there are choices that people make that are based on free will. However, it is also true that there are choices people make that are not made as a result of conscious choice. For those people, smoking cigarettes, doing drugs, drinking too much, constantly worrying, feeling overly anxious and depressed can not be stopped by mere will power or choice. Which is it then? Do we have the free will to make the choices in our lives based on our own unique needs and wants? Read More