Archive for the ‘Kellevision’ Category
The Opposite of Love is Not Hate
The opposite of being totally consumed by someone you cannot live without is not being totally consumed by someone you can’t stand. The consumption is still there, only inverted. The opposite of love, therefore, is not hate…
Posted in Just Say No to Drama
The after school program called to say they had a medical emergency with a child and could not locate the mother. They were asking if we could help them find the mother and have her call them. Then the drama started…
To "Heal" or not to "Heal"…
… that is the question. A veteran of Vietnam was talking about his experiences over there, coming home and the trauma he experienced and he made an interesting statement. The mental health professionals, the V.A., his family and his friends all want him to heal. But he disagrees.
Big Pharma causes Big Problems
The more I see of the pharmaceutical industry’s (a.k.a. “Big Pharma”) influence on how we think about human behaviors and their treatment, the more worried I become. Alternet’s articles, ” How Pharma Giants Are Getting Rich By Calling Our Life Problems ‘Medical Disorders’” and “Do You Have Excessive Sleepiness? Shift Work Sleep Disorder? Big Pharma Hopes So” are perfect examples of what I’m talking about. An article in the Daily Finance finds the Food and Drug Administration almost doubling the number of warnings they’re making to drugmakers for questionable marketing practices. The good news? A psychiatrist friend was telling me…
Someone I Love is Dying
And I cry. I cry as I do dishes. I cry in the car running errands. I cry when I look into those beautiful eyes and know they will not look back at me much longer. And that’s what you do. You cry. Cancer sucks.
Intellectualism as a Defense Mechanism: Creating a New Scapegoat
I’m working with a family who is going through an interesting transition as they move the Scapegoat role from one member to another and using intellectualism to do it.
"I hate war. I can’t wait for it to begin."
I listened to this veteran of the “war” in Iraq and understood what he meant. I’ve seen this with abused children and victims of domestic violence. It’s a curious feeling – unless you’ve been there.
Yoga for Two
I am reading the August 2009 edition of Yoga Journal and there’s an interesting article about practicing yoga as a couple entitled, “Grow Your Love”. I’m a firm believer in the healing and restorative powers of yoga for mental health, but I’d never thought of using to strengthen a relationship.
Moral Hazard, Perverse Incentive and Homeless Families
When talking about the problem of homelessness there seem to be two ways of thinking about the problem: 1) that people are homeless strictly because of social problems (i.e. not enough affordable housing) and 2) that the people are homeless strictly because of their personal shortcomings (i.e. not working). I think the truth lies somewhere in between and I would like to propose a third way of viewing the problem.
Depression: The Dark, Downward Spiral into the Abyss
I think the worst thing about depression is the insidiousness of its symptoms; all of which further contribute to the ever deepening spiral into the dark abyss of meaninglessness.