Category: Counseling
-
Hypomania and Explaining the Unseen Mental Disorder
Hypomania is a state of elevated mood which differs from a person’s normal mood. Hypomanic mood does not typically impair a person’s ability to function, but can alter a person’s behavior and interactions with others in both positive and negative ways. This article is made to be used as an informational resource, not a diagnostic tool.…
-
The Difficulties of Living with Paranoid Personality Disorder
Paranoid personality disorder, also known as PPD, is one of several disorders referred to as “Cluster A personality disorders.” Cluster A personality disorders involve odd or illogical thinking. A person with PPD will have paranoia and an extreme mistrust of others, even when there is no reason to be distrustful. This article outlines some of…
-
The Five Stages of Grief and How to Cope with Them
We’re all familiar with the famous five stages of grief that people are supposed to go through whenever they experience a significant loss. However, not many people know how this model came to be and what it was originally designed for. Nowadays, even if many people consider this model outdated and limiting, others still identify…
-
How to Heal a Broken Heart and Move on With Your Life
We as humans are not immune to heartbreak, even though most of the times we wish we were. The truth is you can’t escape heartbreak, the same way you can’t escape feeling physically ill from time to time. That being said, we should also mention that we have become accustomed to claiming we suffer from…
-
Not My Circus Not My Monkeys – How to Not Overstep Bounds
“Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy” is a polish proverb that roughly translates to “not my circus not my monkeys” in English. It refers to staying away from problems that are not our own and do not affect us. It promotes a behavior and attitude that is healthy for our state of mind and social…
-
Art Therapy: How Can the Beautiful Ease Mental Disorder?
Reestablishing basic mental order through beauty is something art therapy prides itself in as a discipline. No matter how insecure and clouded a person’s mental health may be, art can help stabilize receptors, calm sensory perceptions, and induce deep thoughts about the self and the world around it. The unconscious is a dense shrubbery where…
-
Aversion Therapy and Learning to Overcome Bad Habits
Aversion therapy is a behavior therapy that determines patients to abandon an unwanted habit and is one of the most controversial practices in the 21st century’s psychology. Mental health professionals and the public rarely are indifferent when asked about aversive behavior therapy. Studies show promising results, but many ethics and medical specialists condone the cruel…
-
Porn Addiction as Instinctual Confusion
Any addiction; porn addiction, alcohol addiction, gambling addiction, food addiction and so on, by definition has a self- destructive aspect. Gabor Mate writes on addiction: “The aching emptiness is perpetual because the substances, objects or pursuits we hope will soothe it are not what we really need. We don’t know what we need, and so…
-
The Art and Science of Being Happy; A Soft Technology
“How to be happy?” is a most important question. It is a question hidden in every decision we make, from what we consume, to how we do relationships, to spiritual practices of any kind. We usually do not choose to be unhappy, even though that is often our state of being. The technology of being…
-
Psychotherapy, Cannabis, and CBD Oil
As a psychotherapist in California, I have had the opportunity to observe the affects of cannabis and CBD cannabis first hand in my practice. Medical marijuana has been legal here in California for 20 years. I have been able to observe it’s continuing integration as a medicine for physical, mental and spiritual health. I have…
