chrishagesethiii

Name: Christian
Surname: Hageseth III
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About Me: Born the last child to older parents during the cold winter of ‘41, young Christian embraced his Norwegian heritage and accepted his duty as a North Dakota native: expect bland food, distrust tropical sunshine, and conserve subcutaneous fat for insulation. After graduating with a BA from Northwestern, he chose to study medicine; receiving his MD from the University of Rochester. Prior to specializing in psychiatry, he volunteered for military service, serving as a Marine Corps Flight Surgeon during the Vietnam War. With five years of military service behind him, he studied psychiatry in Southern California and then moved to his permanent home in Colorado. During the eighties, almost by accident, he began providing "Humor and Health" workshops throughout the United States. He published his first book, A Laughing Place, the Art and Psychology of Positive Humor in Love and Adversity which sold 17,000 copies over the next decade. Subsequently, he wrote a second book which won a Benjamin Franklin Award at the 1992 American Bookseller’s Association entitled: A Thirteen Moon Journal, A Psychiatrist’s Journey Towards Inner Peace. Throughout the nineties, Dr. Hageseth focused on treating the most severe forms of mental illness and as a consequence began to provide electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) for his most depressed patients. Dissatisfied about how ECT had been practiced, he sought to develop a more compassionate approach. He produced an award winning video entitled, Beyond Stigma, the Compassionate Application of Electro-Convulsive Therapy. This program received two Telly Awards and was featured at the World Psychiatry Meetings in Madrid, Spain in 1998. After thirty-two years, Dr. Hageseth left clinical practice and reconnected with his early love of the out-of-doors, producing and hosting a national television show on The Outdoor Life Network entitled Bird Dogs Forever. For four years, it was the most fun a guy could have and make a few pennies in the process. Since television production required only six months a year, he made several medical trips to Honduras to help an isolated, indigenous people called The Tolpan. He continued similar work as recently as 2018 when he traveled to Uganda where he taught holistic medicine to a population lacking access to physicians or medication. His first symptoms of Parkinson’s disease appeared in 2005; his formal diagnosis made in 2012. Focusing on vigorous physical exercise, yoga, and varieties of mind work, he has not used Parkinson’s medications. For six years he directed a Parkinson’s support program in Northern Colorado and maintained an educational/inspirational website: www (dot) shiftpdmind (dot) com. A year ago, an extraterrestrial being implanted an app in his brain forcing him to write his first novel, Let’s Pretend, A Tale of Mind, Imagination, and Healing.
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