January 1st, 2010
Dr. Muniza Shah
closeAuthor: Dr. Muniza Shah
Name: Muniza Shah
Email: munizashah@hotmail.com
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About: DrS or Dr Muniza Shah is an American Board Certified doctor of psychiatry and neurology, in adult and child psychiatry. She is currently associated with counseling practice in United States, and Pakistan and divides her time between the USA and Pakistan offices of Tohfay.com along side her professional career.She is also a Fellow of Forensic Psychiatry.Curently she is with University of British ColumbiaVancouver BC Muniza is a graduate of Sind Medical College. She completed her residency and fellowship trainings from University of Missouri, North Western University Chicago, and University of South Dakota.
Dr Muniza is an acclaimed Urdu poet of this generation. Her first poetic collection “Koocha Koocha Phiray” was published in 2008 and received acclaims from such names as Amjad Islam Amjad and Peerzada Qasim. She is currently working on her second poetic collection a fiction novel due to come out next year. Dr Shah is a founding partner of Doodhpatti.com and is the Chief Creative Officer for Tohfay.com and MamooinPakistan.com.See Authors Posts (3)
When I was twelve years old, I encountered my first adult question. I thought about how God knows everything, and therefore He must know exactly what I am going to do tomorrow and because of that knowledge I must do what God already knows. What that meant to me from then till this day is that I have no choice about my future, my future is determined.
I took my question to our moulvi sahib of the mosque, we have had such discussions before and he was able to answer all my questions to my satisfaction. But this time he was unable to answer my question; instead he reprimanded me for having such thoughts that could have only been placed in my head by “Shaitan”. I was not disappointed and continued to search for an answer to this paradox, and to my surprise most adults who were knowledgeable in the subject had either not considered this matter or were unable to see a contradiction with free will and responsibility and determinism.
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December 17th, 2009
Dr. Muniza ShahcloseAuthor: Dr. Muniza Shah
Name: Muniza Shah
Email: munizashah@hotmail.com
Site:
About: DrS or Dr Muniza Shah is an American Board Certified doctor of psychiatry and neurology, in adult and child psychiatry. She is currently associated with counseling practice in United States, and Pakistan and divides her time between the USA and Pakistan offices of Tohfay.com along side her professional career.She is also a Fellow of Forensic Psychiatry.Curently she is with University of British ColumbiaVancouver BC Muniza is a graduate of Sind Medical College. She completed her residency and fellowship trainings from University of Missouri, North Western University Chicago, and University of South Dakota.
Dr Muniza is an acclaimed Urdu poet of this generation. Her first poetic collection “Koocha Koocha Phiray” was published in 2008 and received acclaims from such names as Amjad Islam Amjad and Peerzada Qasim. She is currently working on her second poetic collection a fiction novel due to come out next year. Dr Shah is a founding partner of Doodhpatti.com and is the Chief Creative Officer for Tohfay.com and MamooinPakistan.com.See Authors Posts (3)
Another draining day at an out patient psychiatric clinic, trying to convince people to stop acting against their own selves. How amazing is the human need for self-destruction. You look in to another person’s eyes as if they are ready to defend themselves. They are ready to jump into an offensive stance, as if they are afraid for if they are not quick enough they will be pushed into a defense.
Working as a Psychiatrist for past 17 years I have seen many faces, thousands of stories. Every story is different from the other only to be similar at a higher level. Only defenseless people are the one who’s minds are struck with true medical illnesses, and those are few and far in between. They don’t make much eye contact, or say much, as if they are ashamed of their problems. It is not clear if they have any understanding of their problems or what they are feeling.
It is easy to find defenseless people in a psychiatry clinic setting. But in life when we meet hundreds of people every day, at home, at work, in the coffee shop in passing through traffic, some of them we talk to, some of them we only see eye to eye and some of them remain in the background, in our peripheral vision. What about these people? They all have stories like ginger roots; they have stories that come out of other stories and the roots that are inter-mingled in these stories.
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