Tang Hua-sheng, director of the community mental health department of the Taipei City Psychiatric Center, explains, "Sometimes I placate my patients by telling them that we are all repaying sin-debts accumulated in previous lives. Accept the fact that life is not fair and half of your anxieties will simply disappear."
就像那一位期待男友考上研究所的例子，若是男友根本不想辛苦應考，只想悠遊輕鬆度過一生，是否就是一無可取？「有時候，我也會以業力、還債來安慰病人，認命了，接受生命的不完美，焦慮自然就消去了一半，」台北市立療養院社區精神科主任湯華盛表示。