I think it is essential sometimes to go into retreat, to stop everything that you have been doing, to stop your beliefs and experiences completely and look at them anew, not keep on repeating like machines whether you believe or don't believe. You would let fresh air into your minds.
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Leon Tan, PhD, is a BACP (UK) registered psychotherapist and cultural theorist based in Sweden. He was previously a tenured lecturer in psychotherapy and lecturer in media-art history in Auckland New Zealand before relocating to Gothenburg in 2009. He is an expert in online mental health services and digital cultures, having established or consulted in... Continue Reading →
I started playing with my camera last year when all I could do was venture into the yard outside my house. Now I can on occasion leave the house. This is this years fall in the beautiful part of the world I live.
Rick Hanson explains how we can boost our positive emotions and positive experiences.
As I continued to observe how adults believed their thinking, it struck me, “They’re insane! I understand them now: They’re insane.
But while I was busy in the archives, the contemporary psychiatric enterprise was undergoing a transformation as dramatic and fundamental as can readily be imagined.
Reality is the full spectrum. I think a balanced understanding that it contains both glass half-full and glass half-empty is great. Noticing that one feels better when one takes the positive view is also helpful and one can move to inhabiting that more often.
For many of us who've withdrawn from excessive amounts of psychiatric drugs or in some cases just a bad reaction to one psychiatric drug we become hypersensitive to any and all psychotropic medications as well as any other drugs and many supplements too that cross the blood brain barrier. Since many of these medicines are used in emergency treatment it's actually dangerous for us to go to an emergency room even in a true emergency! A doctor who doesn't understand the nature of the iatrogenic illness some of us have could actually kill us while doing standard care.
His bottom-line argument against my cautions about the dangers of benzo use and withdrawal was that those who get sick are an insignificant minority and therefore everything I said was fear-mongering. Period. The fact that many 1000s of people get sick in withdrawal compared to the millions who are "saved" means that those of us who are ill are simply to be written off as people with bad luck. Too bad, you're sick, the miracle that is benzodiazepine helps most people.
An assessment about whether the latest scientific findings support popular fears about what technology is doing to us. "Whenever we learn (anything) there are changes to our brains."
