Are There Things About Psychology that Psychologists Don’t Know? – Vol 443, March 1, 2018

This is a delicate subject coming from a person who is an unlicensed professional working with people with all sorts of emotional issues. So take it from where it is coming, as I am not a psychologist, but have worked with many of them, from both sides of the couch – well, doctors, social workers, and psychiatric nurses, in any case, have been among my clients, along with their kids.

First, the basis of psychology is theory, none of it easily proven. So, when you look at the DSM – Diagnostic Statistical Manual they use to diagnose patients, it is based on clusters of behaviors and thoughts categorized into specific illnesses. This is to help them treat their patients as well as to have a way to bill them for services rendered through insurance companies (at least here in the U.S.).

Second, unfortunately, most of them never learn a thing about how the subconscious mind works, therefore they are leaving out the best methods available to help their patients heal. There are always reasons why people have the negative emotions and limiting beliefs they do, with a purpose behind why they developed. Given this truth, if the psychologists worked from this perspective instead of one of pathological symptoms and illnesses, many more people would be able to be healed with much less invasive means (much quicker results without the use of medications in the great majority of cases.) There are people who definitely do need medications and those would be the severely depressed with suicidal or homicidal thoughts and those with psychotic features.

I do believe that as we learn more about the brain and its true function, we are better able to help folks. Dr. Nora Volkow of the National Institute of Drug Abuse has done many brain scans to prove the dopamine rush and loss of dopamine receptors when addicts act out their addictions too often – substance, eating disorders, sex addiction – it doesn’t matter – it all works in the brain the same way.

Dr. Daniel Amen, a psychiatrist, is also a person who is well known for decades of doing brain scans to better understand the physiology of all sorts of mental health illnesses. He treats his patients with nutritional supplements, hypnosis and talk therapy. Because that is the other thing that is missing; many illnesses that look to be psychologically of psychiatrically based are really a result of a lack of proper nutrition, leading to the lack of development of the amino acids that are required for neurotransmitters to be formed for healthy brain function.

So, there is much that we are finding out now, including the fact that hypnosis is merely a process that allows us to bypass the executive functioning part of the brain where reasons, rationalizations, and judgments are created, allowing our clients to easily get in touch with why it is that they have the behaviors and thoughts they have and overriding those that harm them, while having them create ones that work in their best interest. Hypnotism goes back millennia and was used for amputations in the 1800’s in the theatre of war in India before we even knew that bacteria existed or found chemicals like ether to anesthetize people safely for such surgery. Dr. James Esdaile is the surgeon who did these operations in India had a 95% success rate.

Your mind is your best asset if you only learn how to use it. Bruce Lipton, a cellular biologist speaks of this in the first chapter of his book “Biology of Belief.”

If you would like to learn more, there is an encyclopedia of information on hypnosis here on this website. You can check out this page for more information on hypnosis specifically:

Why Do People Think That Those Who Become Psychologists Have Problems Themselves – Vol. 441, Feb. 15, 2018

Because those, including myself, who have gotten into the field, did so because they had problems of their own that they needed to contend with.

Now, this is the sad reality, and if you are a licensed mental health pro, spare telling me how I am wrong on this point as I have over 35 years dealing both inside the system as an ex-client, inside the system as a mental health counselor and outside the system as a Hypnotist! 35 years is a ton of experience!

The truth is that most of the people in mental health services never really clear out their own issues. What that means is that many, not all, but many are busy telling others how to better their lives, when these folks haven’t even gotten their own lives straightened out!

This leads to projections of the therapists onto their patients without even realizing what they are doing. These patients feel their boundaries were overridden. Which gets these patients to the point where they have figured out that their therapists have as many problems as they do, and then some of them make the decision to stop their therapy.

I had too many situations working as a counselor with my masters level bosses blaming our clients both for the symptoms of their illness especially the schizophrenics and borderline personality disordered ones and without any respect for the clients’ over sedation due to overmedication. Because, unlike myself, when I found myself in a similar state (circa 1989) these clients didn’t have the ability to tell their psychiatrist to lower their medication.

I would go as far as to say that many of the medications they were placed on weren’t needed. But that early in my mental health work, I didn’t know what I know today. Most mental health issues are cleared with learning how to clear the negative events that brought on the symptoms, along with a compelling future stronger than whatever secondary gain the client gets from being ill and/or malnutrition based on leaky gut, hormonal imbalances, medication interactions, etc.

How do I know? I cleared my own mental health problems, am now totally medication free and psychiatrist free since Jan 5, 2005, with my ex-psychiatrist’s blessings and I have helped many of my clients accomplish the same thing!

The body and mind work together, so there is a lot more to helping people with seemingly mental illness, then handing out very powerful presuppositions that they will always have these illnesses and have to “manage them,” totally untrue, by the way. And handing out body destroying medications that may subdue some symptoms, have been clinically tested to be about as powerful as a placebo! Ever heard of Dr. Irving Kirschior Dr. Walter Brown? Or how about the National Health Service in Great Britain? None of these give out anti-depressants without a person demonstrating symptoms of major depression, meaning a person must have thoughts of suicidal ideation and been depressed for over two weeks.

A psychologist doesn’t have a license to write prescriptions. However, many refer to a psychiatrist or psych nurses that do have the license to write a prescription.

It is a dream of mine that ALL mental health professionals doing clinical work, study Hypnosis in depth, and integrate it into their practices. They could help so many more people because it is such a quick method of healing.

Having them learn more holistic approaches such as realizing that just because something looks like anxiety or depression, maybe it’s because of their patient’s inability to metabolize the nutrition necessary to make the neurotransmitters and hormones necessary for mental health.

This is what my clients taught me, and I am very happy that they did. Because, sometimes those migraine headaches are actually due to a boundary being overridden by someone close to the client, needing a reframe and some healthy boundaries to be formed.

You see, it goes both ways. And to get to the real cause of our client’s issues, first, we need to clear our own crap, then we need to know when a referral is required! This means getting our egos out of the way, being present, being real and being responsible, to the degree our clients trusted us by employing us to do the best for them, and nothing less!

That means: if a treatment ain’t working, think differently!

You can check out one of my client’s story of healing 8 years later. He wants everyone to know that healing can be theirs given the multitude of abuse (even inside the mental health system) he went through from 6 months old till the age of 16 when we did this work together in Nov. 2005. Even better, after not seeing him in the 3 years since he wrote his story of healing, he is doing great (Sept 2017). It’s a disturbing story, yet there are many things you can learn from his detailed account:

Here’s Antonio’s story: