From Psychobabble to Biobabble – Mental Illness and Medication Mind Candy
Medication for mental illness at the alarming rate it is being prescribed is nothing more than dangerous mind candy. Mind candy that cannot effectively address most challenges in mental illness. If one pathologizes mental illness in the narrow and rigid ways of psychiatry and its pseudo-science then one might want to fall in line with the illusion that pills are the long-sought after cure-all. However, they are not any cure-all whatsoever.
The Fragmented Self and the Media
The media is versed at making us feel so inadequate that we start doubting our beliefs and values after a while. This is really detrimental since we already have such a difficult time to think for ourselves and to assert ourselves. So what the media does is to keep eroding our already vulnerable and, in some cases, fragmented self.
3 Negative Effects of Blocked Emotions
It is so important to mental health to be in touch with and connected to your feelings. Too many people are not successful in actually feeling what they feel. Why? Because they are too busy trying to escape or distract themselves from what they feel. Not all feelings are painful. But, feelings that are repressed, ignored, not felt or connected to, do become cumbersome, painful, and continue to grow in their negative perception and experience.
Footsteps of the Past Obstruct The Here and Now
As a Life Coach, BPD Coach and Mental Health Coach, A.J. Mahari talks with clients every day who are in the on-going experience of having their footsteps from the past obstruct their here-and-now in ways that mean unidentified and unreached goals and dreams. Footsteps from the past do not have to continue to obstruct your here-and-now. Mahari knows first-hand that the first step in creating a here-and-now unfolding authenticity in your life journey – to reach your promise and potential and unleash your passion – is to awaken to the awareness that you are looking back more than you are living now and more than you can look ahead with any confidence.
Grief – A Process of Gaining Perspective and Coping
Grief is what it is. Grief is a part of life. Grief is a process that unfolds whenever we suffer, experience, or feel loss. Some reasons for grief are obvious – the death of a loved one, loss of a job or relationship, for example. Reasons for grief can be subtle – unfinished emotional baggage from childhood interfering with goal identification and achievement in the here and now, for example. Life Coach, A.J. Mahari outlines 7 keys that help the grief process and 7 keys that hinder the process of grieving.
Recovery From Sexual Abuse Is A Journey
Author and Life Coach, A.J. Mahari, talks about the reality that sexual abuse recovery is a journey. In many ways it is a life long journey. The actual healing process of recovery may not be life long but there is an element of childhood sexual abuse that is life long. What that is exactly depends upon the choices that one makes in his or her own life.
Loneliness – Pervasive, Powerful, & Purposeful
Loneliness is, on one level a universal experience. There is a collective experience, to some degree, by each and every living individual of what it means, from time to time, to be lonely. The degree to which anyone finds loneliness a painful experience, of course, varies and is related to your level of personal awareness and to the choices that you have made and are making in your own life.
The Mystery of Understanding
Self Improvement, self growth, and getting to know more about who you authentically are require a willingness to learn more on a conscious level. The seeking of more understanding needs to be a conscious choice to embrace more awareness. Awareness that will unfold to you on this journey through the mystery of all that you might not yet fully understand about your self. Do you find that there are aspects of your life that just seem to defy your understanding in actual and purposefully consciously aware ways? Are you a seeker of more personal enlightenment when it comes to aspects of your relationships, your attitude, your moods, and your over-all choices in your life?
The Power of Awareness
Excerpt From The Book “The Mandala of Being” by Richard Moss, MD – Any story you tell yourself about who you are, any belief you have, any feeling you are aware of, is only an object of your larger consciousness. You, in your essence, are always something that experiences all these and remains more complete than any of them. When you realize that you are inherently larger than any feeling that enters your awareness, this very awareness will change the feeling, and it will release its grip on you.
Borderline Personality Disorder – Acceptance of Paradox & Recovery
It is the acceptance of the paradoxical irony of the core wound of abandonment coupled with the abandoned pain of BPD that is both the cause and at the epicenter of recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). It is the paradox of radical acceptance of BPD that is the epicenter of realizing the awareness necessary to get on the road to recovery.
Mental Health
Dialectic Magazine will be providing information, people’s experiences, and opinions on the subject of mental health. Contained within the scope of mental health is both all that comprises and supports mental health, wellness, and a balanced emotional approach to life along with understanding more about the challenges faced when one has a mental illness.
