I have a fascinating book titled The Portable Therapist. It is a book in a question-and-answer format: questions from clients and answers from the author. One question that comes to my mind, upon deciding to create this story, is "Why Can't the Therapist Fix Me?". I made a choice many years ago to destroy myself psychologically through blaring rock music on top of suffering inflicted by another. Since the behavioral health system is in shambles, it was of little help and most likely made matters worse.
Back to destroying myself. Although it may not have been the smartest of choices, I've learned a lot. I've learned that public tears in the face of those working within the behavioral health system - only shows their fear and bias. Still, it's strange how I need to take responsibility for my psychology, despite, inflictions from others. Through my own fault of bland tolerance.
Another learning is that it is not my problem. That is, fixing what is wrong with the system, government, and other peoples' domestic issues. This allows me to focus on myself. It's a delicate balance while out in society. Humans are social.
Thirdly, it is helpful for me to return to my center, the center of the storm, or happy place - if you will. I'm not exactly sure how I stumbled upon my center. I sometimes listen to the videos of a woman who manages a physical chronic illness. It is from these videos that I learned about having a center.
Ambition is an interesting mechanism to me. It is from this perspective that my next learning may be related. Ambition seems to function, at least for me, in an up-down fashion. That is, pious versus competition. I had a semi-religious upbringing, so I tend to believe in a greater force than myself.
Control is another difficult mechanism to deal with. Staying away from free will versus determinism, I'm coming from a psychological viewpoint. I guess the best way to handle control is to be aware of when it is functioning. Not that control is a bad function; there are useful times for it. It's tricky. I suppose the best way to explain it to use it in opposition and release it for vulnerability.
I have mental health complications. They don't much bother me except that their manifestation was aided by harassment, bullying, stigmatization, and discrimination. I feel like a foreigner to my own American nationality. I live in a region of the United States that is not the state of my birth.
Back to mental disorders. I tend to lean towards Thomas Szasz's perspective, which considers mental illness as a problem of living. I'm not anti-psychiatry. I fall more along the lines of humanistic theories. If people want to assist others, then they themselves need to be aware when they are being biased and judgemental. If not, you end up with a waste of tax dollars, resources, and potential. It would be rather expensive to implement a more humanistic behavioral health system where those with difficulties aren't scalded to death by hot bathwater. Most employees are just working for the paycheck and can't differentiate between patient and coworker.
To this end, I'm reminded of the mass killing of girls overseas because they go to school. The female politician who was shot for her voice in allowing girls to have an education. I think we can learn a lot from other cultures.
I recommend the aforementioned book to anyone in need of information on becoming a person. For those who can afford to stand out from the crowd. For those who say yes to life, despite, these maddening and uncertain times. For those who have the courage to stand upon the precipice and assert their right to life, liberty, and free speech.
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The secret journey to regaining emotional stability
Do you feel that the anxious and avoidant types both seem to be strong and independent, but in fact they are sensitive and fragile. They often fall into emotions because of small things and start to be anxious and avoidant? If anxious and avoidant types want to change these, what they actually need is to compensate for their missing parts and heal their injured parts. In this issue, we will teach the avoidant and anxious types how to cultivate themselves again, making their emotions more stable, more rational in relationships, and at the same time gaining the ability to actively output emotional value. If anxious and avoidant types want to overcome the sensitive and fragile parts of themselves and obtain stable emotions, they need not only cognitive adjustments, but also need to heal the traumatized parts of themselves and compensate for the regretful parts of themselves. For example, the regret of the avoidant type is that they have not been paid serious attention to and have never truly rebelled. Therefore, the avoidant type will not fight for their own needs in many situations, resulting in uncomfortable situations and relationships, and they are always running away and wandering. The trauma of the anxious type is that they are trapped in unstable relationships and have been hurt by the instability in intimate relationships. The slightest fluctuation will make the anxious type feel nervous and anxious. Therefore, anxious and avoidant types are inherently fragile, sensitive, and unstable. In summary, these reasons are that something is missing during the growth stage, or they have suffered some trauma, so if you want to solve these problems, this is the time. Compensate when you need to compensate, heal when you need to heal, exercise when you need to exercise, just treat yourself as a child and raise yourself again. If the avoidant and anxious types re-train themselves, what kind of growth can they gain? First of all, emotions will become more and more stable. For example, you can be aware of your emotions at the first time, avoid emotions from affecting your thoughts and judgments, and learn to regulate your emotions. Secondly, you can truly understand yourself and know your real needs and fears. In the process of re-nurturing yourself, you can clearly understand your needs and fears, that is, you can know why you are attracted to a certain person, why you behave like this, and then you can better understand what you need.
By angelababy5 days ago in Psyche
Turning Pages of Life
Life’s like a book — some parts are good, others not so much. Still, keep turning the pages; you might find the best chapter next. If someone hurts you, choose to forgive or just let it be, but never change who you are for them.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharing3 days ago in Poets
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