Taming Tigers
Many mental health issues I treat can be extremely complicated. For instance, anxiety is an extremely prevalent problem, and it is often hard to find the cause. Some people are shaped by their environment and as a result, become anxious. Other times, people have a medical (biochemical) problem causing it, or are genetically predisposed to anxiety. It can be very difficult to tease out what should be treated medically and what can be resolved through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Anxiety may present itself through worry, nervous habits such as nail biting or hair twirling, or even worse, panic attacks. My…
The Best Way to a Voter’s Ballot is Through Their Heart
We hear people politicizing social welfare programs all of the time. They use these programs for their own benefit to garner more votes. They tug at the heart strings of a society by accusing people on the right of wanting homeless people to freeze in the alleyways of New York with one hand, while using the other hand to create programs that provide food and temporary shelter to those in need. Why? Because it works. There has been a tremendous sway through emotional appeal in our nation in the last 15 years. The healthcare issue is obviously a great example…
From Freud to Freedom
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms–to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning For more than a decade, I have been working in the mental health field as an outpatient therapist and legal advocate. The bulk of my work has been helping individuals who are recovering from extreme trauma, such as domestic violence, chronic sexual abuse, sexual assault and other traumas that result in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is usually just associated with what combat…
When people suffer: What entitlement programs really mean
Unlike many who express disapproval of the welfare state, I have watched the impact of welfare on a household first hand. The left regularly argues that people on the right want to eliminate the welfare state so that they can hold people down. During high school I hid from my family’s welfare addiction and avoided it like the plague. I would do everything that I could to stay away from home in order to convince myself that, instead of being over-ridden by these programs that were dragging my family farther into a hole and pulling us farther apart, I was…
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