Jun 30 2014

How Could There Be a 80% Increase in Mental Health Discharges for Kids 5 to 13 Years Old? – Vol. 116, September 1, 2011

According to Joseph C. Blader of Stony Brook State University of New York as reported in Archives of General Psychiatry, August 1, 2011, discharges for psychiatric hospitals rose by more than 80% for 5 to 13 year olds and 42% for older teens between 1996 and 2007. These numbers were based on those kids who were hospitalized for assaults on family members or peers as a result of minor provocations. This in the face of more outpatient care of kids who need it.
My question is simply this? What is causing all of these kids to be so angry as to feel the need to act out in this manner? Is it the food they are eating, the environments from which they are coming or the activities such as video games and other visual media depicting hostile behavior, or music that is demeaning and angry in tone that they are squandering their time on?
On the other end of the spectrum, I wrote an article a few weeks ago relating to the increase in depression where Dr. Bernie Siegel was noted as saying that he thought the kids of today are being regimented too much as they are being pressured very hard to do exceptionally well in school and extra curricular activities like athletics and music without a regard for being able to have a say in how they spend their time.
My guess is that all of these pressures are bearing on kids today as they find themselves being pushed to grow up too fast without the ability to enjoy their childhoods. What this is creating is kids who are at a loss in how to think for themselves because it is all being done for them. This is so unlike the days when we would play with our friends in the neighborhood till it got dark without any parental involvement.
It seems to me that kids today do need parents to parent them. What this means is for parent to be there to do fun and entertaining things with their kids as well as to be available to share the wisdom that they have gleaned over their life times. It also requires the need for parents to stop being “friends” with their kids while setting up reasonable expectations for them. Unfortunately what I have been seeing in my practice is that the kids are running the show in many households acting out to get the attention that they so sorely need. I also see kids who are feeling so pressured by their parents to perform, that they don’t believe they can live up to the standards the parents have set.
Parenting is not an easy job for sure. If you child is acting out a hypnotist could quickly and easily get to the bottom of the issue without any invasive measures. Once their fears and concerns are taken care of, the ill behavior ceases making life easier for all.

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Jun 30 2014

049:Spreading Love Instead of Bullets, Untimely Death & Suicide

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Jun 26 2014

Is The Stigma of Having a Mental Health Issue Creating a Barrier to Your Getting Treatment? Your Life Is In Your Own Hands

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In an article published in HealthDay, (Feb. 26, 2014)reporter, Mary Elizabeth Dallas shares the distressing fact that 75% of all of those affected in Europe and the United States, which amounts to 25% of the population, never receive treatment for these disorders of decompensation. Psychosis, depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety all get worse over time if left untreated.

Dr. Ghaham Thornicroft, senior study author, at the Institute of Psychiatry of King’s College, London, stated in a press release “The profound reluctance to be “a mental health patient” means people will put off seeing a doctor for months, years if ever at all, which in turn delays their recovery.” I would say one would be lucky if a delay in recovery were the worse that can happen for many lose their lives to mental illness.

For the study, published Feb. 25 in Psychological Medicine, the researchers collected information from 144 studies involving 90,000 people around the world. Young people, minority group members, members of the military and health care professionals were most affected by the stigma associated with mental health issues. Many thought they could handle the problem on their own or didn’t believe they needed help at all.

Stigma ranked as the fourth highest of 10 barriers to care. Besides the stigma of using mental health services for being treated for mental illness, the participants also reported feelings of shame and embarrassment as reasons for not seeking care. Others were afraid to let anyone know they have a mental health issue or were concerned about confidentiality. Some people with mental illness either felt they could handle their problem on their own or believed they didn’t need help. Among those most affected by the stigma associated with mental illness were young people, those from minority ethnic groups, members of the military and health care professionals.

Studies aside, I decided to de-stigmatize my own battle with bipolar over 20 years ago. I no longer am negatively affected by this illness having found hypnotic techniques to clear the issues that created it. I found those techniques in the effort to find a better way for my own clients to heal them. I knew the damage that the conventional drug dependent, bodily harming medications that I was put on didn’t get rid of the underlying issues. Since January 5th of 2005 I have been successfully medication and psychiatrist free – with my ex-psychiatrist’s blessings. Because you see, running away from a problem will never help you, it could well kill you, but it will not help you. One has to confront the problem head on willing to do “whatever it takes” to create a life that is free of these problems thus allowing a beautiful light to shine in one’s heart and mind going forward. This isn’t to say that I don’t have my distressing or challenging times. I live in the world the way anyone does. However, my life is filled with love and gratitude for all that I am able to do with a grounded state of being and the knowledge of knowing how to keep myself in a centered and functional place regardless of what is happening in my own life or in the world at large. Since being cleared of bipolar I have gone through a divorce after a 20+ year marriage remaining friendly toward my ex, treatment for a brain tumor and a broken ankle. There have been many financial ups and downs over this time as well. On the positive side I have been blessed to bring my work to two different African countries working on three separate projects, written four books and created over a dozen MP3 recordings of hypnotic meditations in addition to the healing work I continue to do with my clients.

So, I would venture to say that there is help out there for anyone who is willing to do what it takes to get the illness in the past, knowing that your future can bring untold gifts into your world, perhaps even an opportunity to serve at the highest levels, only if you are willing to confront your own self and do the healing work required, because drugs don’t heal, and no one can do it for you.

Jun 23 2014

Happiness is a Choice – Vol. 140, February 23, 2012

Happiness mind-map

Happiness mind-map (Photo credit: EEPaul)

There is a mistaken belief that in concentrating our energies upon what is not working for us psychologically and medically we are able to provide health care. This is a mistaken belief for the absence of ill health is not health, it is merely a minimum baseline to be achieved. True health comes when their is a sprint in the step, a twinkle in the eye. A joy for life based on the opportunities that one is blessed to take advantage of whether they be the simple enjoyment of a day out in nature, or doing something that is fulfilling such as a creative or exploratory adventure.

It is a sad commentary on the days that we now inhabit with the accent always being on that which is negative. Pick up the news and all you will see is murder, burglary,  mayhem created by natural disasters, political ploys for ever more power, and the dysfunctional behavior of those with fame. The truth of course is that this is a lopsided view of the world projected through our various media which is creating feelings of unhappiness in the masses brought through the anxious feelings one has when they feel a loss of control of their own lives.

Shawn Achor, a researcher in the area of positive psychology, has been researching what it takes to create happiness throughout many cultures of the world to increase the job performance at failing companies. What he found was that a happier person is more productive, more creative, more energetic, more resilient, with less job burnout, less job turnover with an increase in sales. This is true if we are more positive in the present.
Dopamine turns on all the learning in the brain as well as brining you more happiness.

To tell you the truth, I have integrated most of his learnings into my personal life and make it a part of the homework my long term clients receive to help them to turn their negativity into positivity.

He found that if one:

Writes 3 gratitudes per day one can turn around their negative point of view to one that is more positive. This is based on research of Emmons & McCullough, 2003.

Journaling daily about one positive experience that day allows one to relive it bringing happiness back based on the research of Statcher & Penneboker, 2006.

Exercise, reminding one that taking care of one’s body makes one feel better based on the research of Babyak et al., 2000.

Meditation helps one dissolve the “societal ADD” of constant multitasking allowing one to get centered with better focus on one thing at a time.

Random acts of kindness done once each day. Sending a positive message via email to a business contact brought feelings of pleasure. This was based on the research of Lymbominsky, 2005.

These are all rather simple things we can each integrate into our lives to bring a more centered and positive outlook into our lives. If you are so deeply depressed that doing these simple acts is of little consequence to indeed employ a mental health specialist to help you to deal with your deeper issues. There are many newsletters on this website that speak to how to turn negative feelings and even depression around as well as testimonials from those who have employed the services of Dawning Visions Hypnosis, Inc. to live in the present as they create a much happier and fulfilling future. I would caution you to engage with someone who has a demonstrated success record working with this population because the ramifications of inappropriate care can be to your detriment.

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Jun 23 2014

048:Transitions

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Jun 19 2014

Our Medical Professionals are Depressed, Burned Out & Don’t Get Help!

how to get adderallVol. 262, June 20, 2014

Medscape, March 8, 2013 includes a provocative article called Physician Suicide by Louise B. Andrew, Md, JD, explaining all the reasons that doctors are killing themselves at a rate of 400 physicians each year (the equivalent of at least one entire medical school class). More horrific is that suicide is the most common cause of death in medical students. Depression occurs at least as often in medical professionals as the general population of about 12% of males and 18% of females. The most common means of suicide is lethal dosages of prescription medication or firearms.

I found it ironic though unfortunately totally believable that these medical professionals are the last to seek help for their own depressions. One has to ask how it is that one can feel fine prescribing all sorts of medicine and other sorts of treatments for we the mere mortals outside the medical community, yet they find it so disconcerting to ask for help for themselves. Further I find myself asking, that if they are unwilling to seek help for themselves for a deadly illness, why would I want to put myself under their care?

Doctors have a higher rate of suffering from mood disorders and substance abuse then the general public, most likely from both the pressures felt to be perfect and the pressure of being given a status higher than most with that medical degree of theirs. Of course being doctors, they have access to medications as well as the knowledge of how  to best kill themselves.

Unfortunately doctors do not feel safe getting help for themselves with fear of losing their license to practice, loss of insurance and many not feeling comfortable going to colleagues with their problem.

Dr. Andrew states in the article that physicians are terrible at diagnosing depression in their own patients, so would be worse at doing so for themselves. Doctors feel that they need to act healthy and be invulnerable to be taken seriously as healers. The problem with this sort of thinking is that people who are depressed have a lack of clear thinking, a lack of energy and stuck in negative thoughts as they work to get through a day of 20 or more patients with various degrees of medical problems.

Ever since I was trained to be an Neuro-Linguistic practitioner, I knew that one had to always apply to the self before applying to others or the result the work would be variable. The reason for this is that when one is working in the unconscious mind, all sorts of cues come about for the client. If there is an incongruence in how the practitioner lives and what the practitioner is asking of the client, the practitioner has no basis to believe the client will follow the suggestions given.

I was with this in mind that I realized that I had little respect for many of the medical practitioners out there. For some reason they felt that we the patient should take them seriously when they were themselves over weight, angry or depressed or in some way less than a model of health and light.

I am grateful for learning about how the unconscious mind works and to avail myself of the divergence between what I am told to do and what the professionals themselves do as I see my dentist, who I love, drinking Diet Coke and eating chocolates during what would be his lunch break if he would took one. I notice that many of the nursing staff at hospitals and in doctors’ offices are overweight, many morbidly, while they stand outside smoking their cigarettes and eating donuts. Then we wonder why it is that Americans with all the medical technology they have access to are some of the unhealthiest people on the planet.

My advise to anyone who needs medical help is to make sure that you access it for only those things that truly merit it. I know from previous research that one in five medical professionals in the emergency room of any hospital is dependent on drugs or alcohol, used to combat the stress of their jobs. My own manner of using the medical professionals is to treat tumors, infections, broken bones and hormonal issues. Go to your pharmacist for that one – one who uses bio-identical hormones and is affiliated with an endocrinologist who will work with him. I learned this hard way.

Understand that I don’t blame the doctors for their plight. The system is set up for the insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies to make all the money as the doctors are treated more like factory workers, unable to give the care that helped them to find their way, after going through 12 years or more of school to practice their art and science. For others it was more a matter of them following the expectations of their parents, who never should have taken that route given their lack of interest in the work. In any case, your health is in your own hands so take that responsibility seriously.

Jun 16 2014

How to Help Someone with Depression: Show You Care – Vol. 146, April 27, 2012

How to help someone with depression

How to help someone with depression

We all need to know that we matter to our friends and family and yet I find it interesting that most people haven’t a clue in how to go about doing that. Maybe the real problem is that they haven’t an idea in how important it is to let others know that they do in fact care about them.

When I found out that I had the brain tumor a few years ago, the only question that I had for the doctor was regarding my treatment options. He let me know that surgery wasn’t possible because of its location where many nerves and arteries were making excising the whole mass impossible without damaging some other necessary part of my anatomy. Leaving it alone wasn’t a realistic option given the double vision that brought me to know that the brain tumor was present. So radiation was the only realistic course of action.

It was this knowledge that I was to undergo six weeks of radiation that helped my cousin make the decision to fund my trip to Israel right after my course of treatment was over. You see, my cousin was 79 years old at the time and I was only 48, and he felt terrible about the situation that I found myself in. I had told him I wanted to go there to help some of the family members with traumas they had experienced after the bombing of their homes in the north of Israel during the fighting in the Gaza strip. My cousin being an intelligent man knew not only that without a medical license to practice hypnosis I wasn’t allowed to do any hypnosis in Israel. He also knew that I needed the trip for my own healing purposes which indeed was what that trip came to mean to me. He told me that I was to focus on myself and give myself a break from doing any work.

Through all of our interactions before, during and after the trip his one refrain to me was: “I am interested and really care about you.” He continued by telling me that though he would love to hear about what I was doing during my extended time over in Israel, I needn’t feel obligated to email him anything, it was totally up to me.

Think about this a moment: Here is a man I had a few conversations with over the previous decade who knew who I was, however not much better than the majority of the 500 or so relatives he had tracked down doing his 12 ½ years of research on his father’s genealogy. Yet, when I told him of my fears of never being able to get my work out there after having spent a life time healing myself and learning how to heal others of health issues the conventional medical community say is impossible he comes up with the money to give me a break from reality. He figured with “a much needed change” that I  would come back and do my healing work more able to get it out into the greater world- work that is the essence of who I am. Work that I found I missed after being gone from it for three months.

Contrast this to another encounter that I had with a gentleman who I have known for about thirty-three years with whom we considered ourselves close enough to be siblings. We had a large falling out – the second such in the past few years over the issue of his dismissing something that was very important to me because it was important to one of my friends, in this instance. We have for the past few decades combined our resources to run Passover, usually including people who have never experienced it before. It is a very meaningful holiday tradition not only in the symbolism, more important in the sharing of a great feast and tradition with those with whom we feel close. When one of my best friends requested months ago that I ought to run one this year I was fine with that idea, feeling moved that she was so moved from the experience she had with us a couple of years ago. When I asked my long time friend to do this with me his response was: “no one was interested.”

To this day he hasn’t a clue why I cut him out of my life because he just didn’t care enough to even ask why it was that this event was so important. You see, it wasn’t important to me just for my sake. It was important to me because of the fact that it was important enough to my friend that she repeatedly asked when we were going to do it. When I had a date to run Passover I invited my ex-husband who is friends with another close friend of mine who emailed me requesting to come as well once she heard that I was doing it. My Godson ran the event with me. It was such a pleasant time the outcome was to have regular monthly gatherings at my new place so that we could enjoy one another’s company.

This my readers is what life and living is all about. This is what friendship is about. This is what caring is all about. If you want to have people who really do care about you, you need to really care about them by demonstrating that you care about about those things that they really care about as well.

My cousin was very interested about how I was doing because he understood the compromising of my health and well being, not just regarding the brain tumor at the time, more the compounded stress of the divorce and some other challenges that had occurred around that time. He really did and does continue to care about me and what it is that I am doing with my new release on life. We talk when I call him to update him on what I am doing. He is always letting me know how “gratified” and “overjoyed”  he is to see all that I am doing in this world, all the while never taking any credit for any of it. The trip was a gift, that was all it was in his mind – nothing more though to me it was a new release on my life.

To my friend who wanted me to run the Passover event it was a chance to get together for a very interesting, spiritually based evening with real good friends of hers eating a feast. What could be more fun?

To my now ex-friend – he missed the boat, never able to really understand the things that were meaningful to me – always interested in those things that he could do that he thought were meaningful to me, and yet, were more meaningful to him to help him feel good about himself. The problem with this is that one can do many things that they “think” will be meaningful to another, however until you are sensitive to what really matters to those who you claim to love, respect, enjoy, by following through with being there in the way that matters to them, you are at best fooling yourself and may very well find yourself minus one friend.

If on the other hand you are able to care about what is important to your friends you will have friends who will always be there for you in ways you could never fathom before. This is a promise I can give you having lived this life. And, for those of you who have friends who “don’t get you” or make you feel they don’t care – well I would suggest you let them know that they are missing the boat and explain to them why that would be true. If they care they will make the necessary changes. Sometimes that isn’t possible mainly because you and your “past” friend have grown apart. This does indeed happen and the best course of action is to let go and move on. There are many very fun and interesting people to engage with in their stead.

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