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Antidepressant Lies
I am reposting an article from the popular consumer advocacy site, Mad in America, which serves as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad). This is a crucial topic that not only does not get enough attention, it is often willfully...
Mental Filtering
In these articles, I explore the wide realm of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and delve into how our thoughts shape our inner worlds, external behaviors, and moods. Mental Filtering is a concept in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), one of the most time-tested and...
Victim or Victor?
In these articles, I explore the wide realm of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and delve into how our thoughts shape our inner worlds, external behaviors, and moods. Which are you? Which do you want to be? You can choose. It’s all about mindset. Yes, there are...
Tame Animal Emotions
In these articles, I explore the wide realm of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and delve into how our thoughts shape our inner worlds, external behaviors, and moods. The same analogy appears in different places throughout history. The elephant and it’s rider, the horses...
Addiction – A Disease?
The disease model of addiction is the dominant model of addiction. When I first heard alcoholism was a disease many years ago, I thought two things at once. First, I thought, "Oh wow, that explains it." Then I thought, "Wait a minute, how do you catch alcoholism?"...
Continuing Despite Consequences
Sex Addiction 101 - Elements of Addiction – Continuing Despite Consequences We discussed the definition of sex addiction in the previous post, Is It Really Sex Addiction? Within the discussion, we differentiated between Hypersexuality, Obsessive-Compuslive Disorder,...
Too Religious, or Not Religious Enough?
In these articles, I explore the wide realm of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and delve into how our thoughts shape our inner worlds, external behaviors, and moods. In 2019, I was devouring my books at an indy coffee shop in downtown Phoenix, my favorite at the time....
Anxiety: Order vs. Chaos
In these articles, I explore the wide realm of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and delve into how our thoughts shape our inner worlds, external behaviors, and moods. The words and concepts of worry, anxiety, and fear are often interchangeable both in ancient and modern...
Is It Really Sex Addiction?
Sex Addiction 101 - Definition of Addiction - Differentiating Between Disorders The person addicted to sexual acting out comes in many personality types, cultural backgrounds, beliefs, and behaviors. Common to all sex addicts, however, are elements that distinguish...
It’s All About Mindset
In these articles, I explore the wide realm of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and delve into how our thoughts shape our inner worlds, external behaviors, and moods. A hungry Fox saw some fine bunches of Grapes hanging from a vine that was trained along a high trellis,...
Depressogenic “Freedom”
In these articles, I explore the wide realm of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and delve into how our thoughts shape our inner worlds, external behaviors, and moods. I wrote this on July 4th to carefully consider how our thoughts about freedom affects our individual and...
A Clean Bill of Mental Health
In these articles, I explore the wide realm of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and delve into how our thoughts shape our inner worlds, external behaviors, and moods. A Spendthrift, who had wasted his fortune, and had nothing left but the clothes in which he stood, saw a...
Dream Interpretation
For those who remember their dreams (not everyone does), they can be a hack in therapy, a shortcut. Well, there aren’t really shortcuts in therapy, but dreams can feel like shortcuts when interpreted appropriately. Dreams often propel personal insights forward in the...
Faith-full Security
In these articles, I explore the wide realm of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and delve into how our thoughts shape our inner worlds, external behaviors, and moods. Are you a perfectionist? Do you or someone you love always demand perfection? A chronic demand for...
Wisdom vs. Worry
In these articles, I explore the wide realm of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and delve into how our thoughts shape our inner worlds, external behaviors, and moods. In Logic-Based Therapy and Everyday Emotions, Elliot Cohen identifies Dutiful Worrying as dutifully...
Common Sense Virtue therapy
In these articles, I explore the wide realm of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and delve into how our thoughts shape our inner worlds, external behaviors, and moods. Peace in Greek means the opposite of war. War is division, dissention, discord, hatred, factions,...
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of the Ego
In these articles, I explore the wide realm of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and delve into how our thoughts shape our inner worlds, external behaviors, and moods. We all form an ego as we grow. Let's reflect briefly on our ego "map" or template and how it results in...
Our Common Psychosis
A Man and his Wife had the good fortune to possess a Goose which laid a Golden Egg every day. Lucky though they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough, and, imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it in order...