#Psychotheraphy

[blursy]

Principles of Attraction

The principles of attraction refer to the factors that can influence people’s attraction to each other. These principles include Physical appearance People tend to be attracted to those who are physically attractive, as attractiveness can indicate health, vitality, and genetic quality. Similarity People tend to be attracted to those who share similar values, interests, attitudes, and…

[fendof]

my therapist told me my knitting is actually my psychotheraphy but i dont think she understands the sheer ANGER within me when i spend 3 hours on a piece just for it to turn out wrong. THAT IS NOT THERAPEUTIC LADY!!!😭😭😭

[bambipickle]

cyberpunk's major theme of gradually losing oneself resonates so deeply with me. at a point of no return V just wants to leave a mark, something to be remembered for (at least that's how i play). in a way living a mortal life is just a slowed down process of losing oneself to death. and i'm ignoring keanu reeves in my head who's irrelevant here in what i'm trying to convey. just went to clouds expecting another sex scene but what i got is essentially a psychotheraphy session with myself (which is a cool concept in and of itself). the mood just shifted so dramatically... god i love this game. writing is not quite on par with things like disco elysium but i applaud the deeper themes beneath the veneer of shock value and action-combat so much

[divaricca]

"Mind (as well as metals and elements) can be transmuted from state to state; degree to degree; state to state; pole to pole; vibration to vibration. True hermetic transmutation is a mental art."

- The Kybalion

[noosphe-re]

All human beings are faced with the challenge of transforming themselves throughout the stages of their lives. If we don't deal with the challenge, we end up sick, depressed, without meaning. I try to suggest how people can re-form themselves. We are faced with a crisis indeed when we find out we can't really express ourselves truthfully, we only know how to perform.

Stanley Keleman

[clivecreative]

Three Signs to Look Out For as Progress in Psychotherapy 

Here are three signs that you are progressing in your psychotherapy:

1. An Increase in Ego Strength.

Your ability to feel your emotions without feeling toppled by them is a good sign. Ego strength is not about the sense of what or who you think you are – that is more the concept of yourself, or you ‘self concept’. 

The ego is the sense of being that you have. The ‘I am’ that is having the experience. 

Having a strong ego essentially translates to being able to meet the experience of life as it is. Emotions are generally the signals of instinctual drives. Learning how to read them as signals more accurately, and to our advantage, is generally a step in a healthy direction. It is often when we misread these cues that we end up maladapting to the world, to other people, and to ourselves. 

2. Things Can Get Worse Before They Get Better

It’s an odd one this, but, especially near the beginning of a therapeutic relationship things can sometimes feel like they are getting worse. Strangely this can be a good sign. Of course, the period that it lasts for needs to be taken into account, but generally speaking, for a certain period it is not uncommon, and no bad thing.

Sometimes, old patterns of behaviour, established in the past – e.g. the result of the patient being forced to make a poor decision in a bad situation – can amp up in intensity. Sometimes. 

Sometimes this amplification of affect, of feeling our emotions, is a sign that the patient is learning to feel in a deeper way, that their ego is strengthening. This is why therapy can be uncomfortable, because often we are being called to go into the valid suffering we have been avoiding in order to release ourselves from the unnecessary suffering that we can end up repeating in an attempt to avoid facing the valid suffering, or the fear of it. This is an over simplification, and each case will vary, but the premise is generally true.

3. You Feel Better More of the Time (Except When…)

The clue is sort of in the language. Feeling Better. After all, isn’t that why we attend therapy, to heal? Perhaps the best metric for that is that we feel better. Too obvious? Well, Yes and no. Sigmund Freud, the founder of Psychoanalysis, identified a phenomena with patients he called ‘Flight to Health’ in which a patient might present as suddenly feeling much better thank you very much. This can even occur prior to a session. Previously wrapped up in symptoms when making the appointment a patient can arrive suddenly feeling much better. Or after a single session. This is not uncommon. Again, without contact it is very difficult to say when there is genuine healing taking place and this ‘flight to health.’ Psychotherapy really needs to be conducted on a case by case basis. However, the principle exists. This is another good reason why a block of sessions in a treatment plan is advised, and can be more helpful that single intermittent sessions. In the same way that a patients can suddenly get worse then they can suddenly get better. 

The baseline though is still valid. If, over time, you realise that you are feeling better more of the time, then that is a good sign. If your symptoms ease, or your relationship to them changes for the better, if events, or situations, or people that you used to struggle with become tolerable, manageable, maybe even inconsequential, then these are indications that you are making good progress in psychotherapy.

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[sebbyisland]

My Therapist: have you considered...not assuming people hate you without any evidence telling you so? Me: :0

[blursy]

Is Psychotherapy Safe For Me ?

Yes, psychotherapy is generally considered safe. The practice of psychotherapy is guided by ethical and professional standards that prioritize the safety, confidentiality, and well-being of clients. Psychotherapists are trained professionals who are licensed to practice in their respective fields, and they are required to adhere to strict ethical guidelines and codes of conduct. However, as with…

[delicees]

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

[...]

who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism and subsequently presented themselves on the granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads and harlequin speech of suicide, demanding instantaneous lobotomy,

and who were given instead the concrete void of insulin Metrazol electricity hydrotherapy psychotheraphy occupational therapy pingpong & amnesia,

who in humorless protest overturned only one symbolic pingpong table, resting briefly in catatonia,

returning years later truly bald except for a wig of blood and tears and fingers, to the visible madman doom of the wards of the madtowns of the East

Ginsberg, Allen. ‘Howl’, Part I.

[mugglemd]

Hello :) Hmm may treatment ba for suicidal behavior Or depression yung kailangan ng treatment? Thank you ulit :)

Hi! Yes po may treatment po. It is divided po into two: Somatic therapy & psychotheraphy. Somatic therapy includes drugs or medicines while psychotherapy includes interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavior therapy which are found effective in the management of depression decreasing the risk of suicidal behavior - hopelessness and suicide attempts.

The therapy and treatment should be continued at home that is why it is important to include the family and close friends of the patient. We should educate them about the condition of the patient and they should be included in the treatment process of the patient.

[delasianyah]

Interview with BAABA DADZIE (on Abuse, Counselling and Mental health)

Interview with BAABA DADZIE (on Abuse, Counselling and Mental health)

After the release of my book, The End of Abuse, I felt led to interview certain individuals who had either experienced abuse and been healed from the trauma; or were in the occupation of caring for abuse victims one way or the other.

The reason is, people truly are in need of answers; and it’s my prayer that this interview helps point many in the right direction to finding help and lasting…

[drpurves]

How To Prevent Relapse into Depression Pt. 1

How To Prevent Relapse into Depression Pt. 1

I’ve been asked a question in my Facebook group about recurrent depression. The question is why does depression come back? And so I’m going to do a short series of videos to just kind of try to explain that in more detail, because of course as always the case the more you know about something, the better prepared you are and the more able you are to deal with it.

So, I’ve just done a little…

[completeworksofsigmundfreud]

Studies on Hysteria (1895) - Part II - Case Histories -  Case 1 -  Anna O. (Josef Breuer) - English summary

First case of Studies on Hysteria is a woman appearing under the pseudonym Anna O. Breuer describes her as unproblematic girl who fell sick for some reason in her age of twenty-one years. Although there is some heredity predisposition, neither Anna, nor her parents, were ever showing any symptoms of any disturbance. Anna herself was, according to Breuer, very intelligent, imaginative, talented and nice, and she was characterized by her sympathetic kindness. What was surprising was that there wasn’t developed sexual element. Anna was never in love and this element didn’t appear even during the following hallucinations she had experienced during her treatment.

Anna brought the illness on herself by herself. She devoted her time to the incessant day-dreaming to stand the pressure of her puritan family. She created so-called “private theatre” in which she performed when she did chores, for example. No one noticed anything because she was always aware of the present and was able to immediately react. Breuer divided her illness into four phases – latent incubation from July to December 1880, the manifest illness accompanied by physiological hysterical symptoms, persisting somnambulism alternating with the normal states to December 1881, and gradual cessation of the symptoms by July 1882.

In July 1880 Anna’s father, who she loved very much, fell sick and died of that illness in April 1881. She dedicated most of her time nursing his and as a consequence, her own health started to suffer. In the end she had to stop with caring about her father because of her own health problems as she suffered from loss of appetite, cough, squint and fatigue. On the beginning of December 1880 Anna took to her bed and she remained there until April of the next year. During that time all range of symptoms appeared, such as headaches, vision disturbances, anxiety, and paresis of neck and arm muscles.

Breuer got to her treatment in this state. He noticed that she had already gone through splitting of consciousness that often and without warning alternated. During one of these states, Anna was aware of her surroundings, she was melancholic and anxious, but practically normal. The second state was characterized by hallucinations and naughty behaviour – she was violent and rude, she threw pillows at people and accused them of various things. If something in the room was moved or someone entered or left during this state, she immediately woke up and complained about not having any recollection of what happened and that she lost time. These absences in consciousness had appeared earlier already but now, they worsened. Generally, her moods changed quite rapidly from excessive and temporary good mood to anxiety and stubborn refusal of any help. She suffered from hallucinations because of her fear of snake which she saw in her hair, although during her normal moments, she tried to convince herself that her fear is unfounded. In the afternoons, she usually fell asleep and woke up an hour after a sunset. Her state worsened to that degree that she started to lose her ability to speak. When she couldn’t let out a single syllable, she began put together multilingual sentences. Eventually, she succumbed to it and stopped talking, although she was trying. Breuer understood that she felt offended by something and she forbade herself to speak about it. He managed to force her to speak about and Anna slowly started to speak again, only in English, though, and without her knowledge. She still understood German, but she claimed that she couldn’t speak the language and used alternatively also Italian and French. After she finally got to her feet, she didn’t remember at all that she spoke English. Few days after, her father died and she fell into apathy again. She had problems with perception, mainly of people and their recognition, but she recognized Breuer. She spoke only in English, was also able to read French and Italian, but she absolutely didn’t understand anything in German. She refused to eat, she only let Breuer to feed her, and after that, she kept rinsing her mouth, even though she hadn’t eaten anything. In the following days, her state stabilized to afternoon somnolence and deep sleep matching hypnosis until the hour after sunset. If she was able to describe all the hallucinations she had during the day during this phase, she woke up calm, balanced and cheerful. Nevertheless, the changes of her states left their marks on her physical state and she started to have strong suicidal thoughts. Although Breuer had never threatened her, he had her transferred to a country house, by which she was terrified. After a couple of days of attacks and series of suicide attempts she calmed down, let herself to be feed and accepted chloral.

At this point, Breuer is looking back and considers the source of her problem in the care of her father during his illness. Especially her sleeping pattern is telling enough. When she fell asleep by an hour long, deep sleep, she woke up mostly unsettled and then she created various situations and stories in her had that she reduced and muttered in phrases. If anyone repeated those key words, Anna started to narrate these sad stories and that helped her to calm down. If she didn’t do so, she had to narrate one more story the next day.

Then he returns to the period when Anna spent her time on countryside – he visited her every night when he knew that he would catch her during her hypnotic state so he could help her to get rid of all the hallucinations and visions. If he did so, Anna was way nicer the next day. If he didn’t, Anna’s state gradually worsened and it was hard to make her talk again. Sometimes, he had to use chloral to calm her down. In the following day, her somnambulism didn’t return. What persisted were hallucinations about which she talked later that night and was getting rid of her torment. Her state improved that much that she became fond of another physician, a dog helped her a lot and she even managed to take care of a couple of sick people.  Successfulness of this treatment, so-called talking cure as Anna herself called it (or chimney-sweeping), proved itself to Breuer when he left the countryside for a couple of weeks. After his return, Anna was in terrible, even malicious state. It wasn’t until her return back to Vienna and narrating three to five stories a night that she started to return back to her better phase. Breuer hoped that her state will only and only improve, now when she was back in Vienna and had his daily attention. However, it didn’t happen. Especially around Christmas she worsened again and didn’t have any “good days”. A whole year passed since the moment she had to leave her father and she returned a year back in her hallucinations. While in her normal state she lived the present, she lived the past during the hallucinations. Only after she narrated everything what had happened during the fateful Christmas when she had been forced to give up on nursing her sick father due to her own health condition brought some relief to her. Breuer also mentions that part of the emotions from hallucinatory state moved to the normal state. For example, Anna once mentioned that she was angry with him but that she had no idea why. According to the entry in her diary she had the same feeling for him exactly a year ago. While they were focusing on the events of year 1881, Breuer was coming to the conclusion that Anna’s problems dated back to the latent incubation from July to December 1880. He gives an example in a breakthrough – Anna was refusing to drink water from a glass and suffered from thirst because the only she accepted water was through fruit, e.g. melons. One day during the hypnosis, she mentioned an incident when she once entered a room of her English acquaintance and saw how her dog drinks water from a glass. This incident seems very disgusting to her and while she was narrating it to Breuer, she loosened all the accumulated anger and then she asked for something to drink. She woke up with a glass of water in her hand and her aversion to drink from a glass completely vanished. Like that they gradually “talked away” symptom by symptom. The problem was that if they let the things drift, it would be time-consuming and, on the other hand, if Breur tried to evoke in Anna particular memories, Anna got confused and she couldn’t remember. And so he came up with a new method – he came always in the mornings, hypnotized her and then asked her during which occasions she registered some particular symptom they were focusing at the moment and jotted it down. Thanks to these notes, he was able to direct Anna to narrate what they needed during the evening hypnosis.

Breuer then focuses on the individual problems of the treatment such as verification of Anna’s memories, problems with their evoking, especially when it came to some terrifying visions, the connection between the second, hypnoid state and normal state (when she was free of eyesight problems, she woke up during the night and didn’t know where she was), and he also returns to the beginnings of her illness. Her father fell in year 1880 and had to undergo surgery. That night when they waited for the surgeon, Anna took care of him and she fell asleep. Her dreams were full of various visions that kept repeating during her illness – snakes, death with her father’s head, lack of words and recalling only the words of English rhyme etc. that caused paresis of her hand. And so they worked through all the symptoms and removed them. Anna herself had ordered herself to get rid of her illness on the first anniversary of her moving to countryside and she did exactly so. Although she wasn’t fully emotionally balanced, she was able to function normally and return back to Vienna and travel a bit. Since then she enjoyed her good health.

Breuer than begins to summarize his findings. He points out two psychical characteristic that were present in Anna O. when she was still healthy and that became the predispositions to her illness. First of all, it was the monotone family life she lived and lack of adequate intellectual activity which caused surplus of unspent energy that she started to process through her imagination. Secondly, it was the use of her imagination during her day-dreaming. While Anna O. was able to keep her contact with reality, she kept running away to her dream world far too often and that condemned her to the splitting of consciousness and she let her hypnoid state to take over her fully, without anyone noticing. She was able to cover her physical symptoms and they fully showed after she broke down. When it comes to Anna’s trustworthiness, Breuer doesn’t doubt it and is convinced that she was telling the truth. What he could verify was verified and in all cases Anna wasn’t lying. As a conclusion he adds that the two consciousnesses in the patient can’t be considered as one normal and one insane, because even though they are separated, they keep influencing each other. He also points out that “talking cure” was something that took him by surprise as he didn’t know about this method and considers this as a new, groundbreaking way of psychotherapy.

[kristalli-illat]

Psychotherapist Dick Olney said that what a good therapist does is help her clients wake up from the delusion that they are the image they have of themselves.

Rob Brezsny’s Free will astrology | Gemini | 21.09.2017

[ajokebrownmagazine]

@thecounsellorscafe "It's not a weak move to say 'I need help. Jon hamm #mentalhealth #mentalawareness #selfcare #therapy #counseling #itsoknottobeok #wellbeing #selfcare #positivity #psychotheraphy #wellness #gethealthy #gethelp #gethelpnow #counsel #counselor #letstalkmentalhealth #talktosomeone #ajokebrownmagazine

[ukftm]

So, this is kind of very specific but I've been having a frustrating time for a while now with my psychologist at the tavistock and portman clinic. I'm 17, I've been on blockers for 6 months and have been wanting to be put on the waiting list for adult services since my 17th birthday. But, last year my mental health really declined due to a sudden influx of flashbacks and trauma related to abuse I suffered in my childhood from my mother which my psychologist is convinced is linked to my gender

when I know for a fact that it doesn't, after a long, long process of self reflection and therapy. I was supposed to have psychotheraphy with CAMHS, but it didn't happen. Neverthless my mental health has improved significantly and I I have no question about my gender identity at all, but my psychologist seems to still think I do, and that I'll want to detransition if put on hormones. I feel like I'm being pressured to say that my trauma IS related to my gender. But its not! How do I move on? While in my sessions with my psychologist, I feel like I'm going in circles talking about others who have detransitioned becase of similar experiences but I make it clear that I'm not one of those people because I just know that I'm trans, and it makes me upset that I feel like they aren't believing me. It makes me feel like my dysphoria and identity isn't being taken seriously, despite id as male from around age 9, and being out and presenting as male for the past 5 years.

I’m sorry you’re having this experience.

If you’re struggling to assert yourself in these appointments or don’t feel listened to, you could try contacting the clinic using their feedback/complaints procedures, as outlined here. You might, for instance, ask if it would be possible to see another clinician there as you feel the relationship with this one is no longer productive.

Without knowing about your personal situation and how the psychologist is interpreting it, I don’t think it’s our place to say anything about potential angles you could take to ‘convince them’ of your point of view, or try and second-guess what they want to hear from you. That said, I suppose I would encourage you to emphasise the facts as you perceive them and have explained them here: that you feel your mental health has improved significantly and you’ve received some support relating to your previous experiences; that your feelings about your gender have remained stable throughout (if true); that you acknowledge that other people have decided not to continue with transition but feel your circumstances are different (giving reasons if you have any).

Any followers with suggestions?

~ James