My title sounds really very non-productive, doesn’t! But it isn’t my friends for several reasons. Hear me out on this if you can. All you have to do is just read! Doing nothing might be the best thing you can do for yourself in a long time. Actually doing nothing allows for a pathway to …
I realise that bitter oranges, cannoli and tears have no particular association with each other, nor with anyone else but myself. But blogging is writing down in many ways what’s on my mind, so voila, here it is. I have made no secret that February and March are difficult months for me. Grief slumps or sometimes valleys …
I can just see Gustave Le Bon peering out his apartment window at the angry violent crowds below. It was 1871 and the terrifying loud crowds of the Paris Commune were storming the streets of Paris like stark raving savages, ravaging hell-bent destruction. If alive today, he would definitely experience a Deja Vue witnessing the …
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Happy Quantum Leaps! 2019 is with us. I prefer to take a quantum look at the “new year”, rather than in a linear way. Life on planet earth continues without showing any difference in being “new.” Or does it? Without being a killjoy, the thrill of numbers changing on a calendar just isn’t there …
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When it rains, it pours, it seems. Mishaps, mischance and misfortune like Rabelais said, never come alone! They come totally unexpected, suddenly disrupting our everyday lives and throwing us into time spent fixing them we ordinarily would avoid like the plague. October is a transition month, so not surprisingly there are serious earthly rumbles of hurricanes, floods …
As a neophyte therapist, I was really surprised to find that well more than half of my patients, majority female, had suffered from some sort of sexual abuse. Due to hand surgery last Thursday, I am republishing this updated article, as I can not type much with any ease. Sexual assault is the unwanted and …
I don’t think anybody sets out to be an expert in grief, not even therapists unless they have suffered a personal loss and find themselves in the upheavals of grieving. Last week, I found myself thrown out of my usual coping wagon, which is never a guarantee to stay on the rails in the first …
Growing up? Do we ever achieve it in our lifetime? We often feel pressed to ask young children what they want to be when they grow up. I find children much more gifted in being able to answer than most adults. For children, the question rarely poses much contemplation. Most of them will only give it …
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One of the most debilitating mental illnesses is agoraphobia. Agora from Greek means “marketplace”, which is somewhat misleading as it more a phobia of being in any place, where people are congregated and other places as well! This is not the same as social phobia, which is entirely different. All agoraphobics have extremely high levels …
The modern-day swindling of a 16-century château in Monflanquin and the financial extortion and ruin of an aristocratic family is one of the most unbelievably horrifying, yet psychologically fascinating, albeit tragic stories that I have ever read. The Védrine family, victims of the whole diabolical affair, were called the “reclus de Monflanquin” or reclusives of Monflanquin. …
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Suicide, part II is a continuation of last week’s post that I divided to ensure greater ease of reading. Mental illness is a physical illness with psychiatric symptoms that affect thinking, feeling states, fears, coping strategies, energy levels, sleep, perception, concentration, libido, and general activities of daily living! Our brain has billions of nerve cells, …
This past week there have been two very high profile suicides in America that apparently caught everyone by surprise. Both of these very tragic persons lived a life of fame and fortune, earned through their individual efforts and talents that brought joy and happiness to others. One was Kate Spade, a New York-based handbag designer, who committed suicide …