Category: Counseling
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Psychotropic drugs: Chemical and Herbal Medicine for the Mind and Emotions
I need medicine to help with over-whelming emotions and thoughts. How do I decide what is best for me or my children? Some psychotropic drugs are chemical and some are herbal. How do I choose which way to go? The solution comes out of questions that I have heard many people struggle with. For example,…
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Spiritual/Psychological Counseling? Christian Counseling? Buddhist Counseling?
Spiritual/Psychological Counseling? Christian Counseling? Buddhist Counseling? What is the best way to go with psychotherapy? How spiritual meets with psychological in psychotherapy is very important. One may or may not support the other as they are each brought into individual counseling, couples or marriage counseling, and family counseling. Much of this integration depends on the…
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Cultural Mania in the Individual
A very large majority of people in the American culture have normalized mania. We are affected by this because we live in the culture. We participate in it, either to fuel or to heal it. “Trump is not a man apart. He is, instead, merely one of us writ large.” Michael D’Antonio who wrote the…
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New Year’s Resolutions, Will Power and Bad Habits
Who hasn’t had a problem with will power and bad habits. We all get to points in our life where we see that our habits have turned destructive. They started out fun, exciting and very satisfying and then turned to the opposite. The negative effect begins outweighing the positive effect. The negative consequences on our…
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Bipolar 1, Bipolar 2: Mania and Depression
When we look at the symptoms of bipolar 1 or bipolar 2, we see symptoms that are a result of unresolved emotional confusion about relationships, uncertainty about one’s place in the culture, and very little control of instinctual drives and emotions. When we move into adulthood and there is little or no guidance; mania and…
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Mania and the Manic Episode, Symptoms and their Meaning
It is important to define mania in two ways: By defining symptoms. What those symptoms mean for each individual. Many of those suffering with these symptoms only choose medication for treatment and disregard psychotherapy because the underlying suffering seems too painful or impossible to make any sense out of it. This is the reason for…
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Sand Tray Therapy, An Overview
Sand Tray Therapy : A Powerful Play Therapy Technique for Kids Sand tray therapy is one of the most powerful play therapy techniques for children. For the play therapist, it is comparable to an X-ray or MRI because it provides the unconscious symbols and their relationship. This gives the therapist the information needed to guide the therapy,…
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Addictions and Substance Abuse Counseling
Addictions and substance abuse are self abuse and those in close relationship are collateral damage. Alcohol, prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs, sugar, and food can all be instruments of self abuse, leaving loved ones lonely, hurt and angry. Amount, amount and amount All of these substances can be very pleasurable, medicinal, recreational, fun and necessary to…
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Depression Clinics and the Success of Ketamine
Major Depression is now being treated with ketamine. Under a doctor’s supervision and in the correct dosage it is an effective treatment for depression. The success is significant, especially compared to the current treatment with antidepressants. Previously it has been used in higher dosages as an anesthetic and then also for recreational use. What…
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Understanding Depression, An Aerial Perspective
Depression is an individual problem that is linked to a cultural problem. A cultural problem because anti-depressant medications are the third most prescribed drug in the United States. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-therapeutic.htm That indicates to me a type of epidemic. To make it even worse, the depressive disorder is an epidemic that has become a normalized state…
