I don't know anyone who believes that.

Nary a soul.

But, yet again, it appears that those that really know about these things are convincing us that we are just fine. Certainly, anyone who has gained 5 lbs in the past fifteen minutes, had the third glass of wine, or polished off the last of yesterday's refrigerated pizza, has mastered the concept of leaving themselves alone. 

Ya' think?

But if the venerated Dr. Susan Love tells me to stop worrying about my health, who am I to argue with that?

Worrying about my health, she suggests, "is a major source of stress and guilt".

So I am not going to stress anymore. Moderation is my new mantra. Warm up the pizza, eat it sitting down, the pizza plated, with the kitchen light on. No guilt attached to that maneuver. See, I feel better already. 

Slept fourteen hours. A sign of depression? Wrong again. "The issue of sleep causes a lot of guilt by women" Dr. Love tells us, " If you are sleepy all the time, you are not getting enough sleep for you." Can you hear the groans of hundreds of pyschotherapists? Stress, guilt and it's evil twin, depression have been, snap, erased from the lexicon.

"If you feel good, then you are fine". Use "common sense" they caution us. But we do know, don't we, that common sense is very uncommon.