Hello:
On more than one occasion I have mentioned that when it comes to
this internet technology, I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer. This next
story proves that comment in spades.
When I first started writing a blog and
joined google+ I would check my email to see if anyone was responding to my
posts. I never saw any such responses.
Recently I decided to click unto the icons for social media at
the top of my email inbox page. There I became aware that many people had
responded to my Posts or comments without me realizing it. Please accept my
apology for failing to understand that I should have accessed the social media
icons long ago.
If any of you are willing to do so, I would be more than pleased
to answer any of your questions or comments about previous Posts that I have
entered.
Friday, 17 April 2015
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
GENETICS CAN BE A KILLER
Hello:
While the best method is to face the truth, if that truth is itself false, then the side effects of such a situation can indeed by catastrophic.
Unfortunately the psychological community is giving far too much credence to the belief that most if not all mental illness is genetic in nature; when in reality, in most cases it is nurture or in other words, a behavioral problem that can be corrected.
In my book about the Human Mind, I mention that the current psychological beliefs have caused many suicides and other tragic events to occur. One other aspect of this situation is tragic also.
The psychological community doesn't seem to realize what the end result of their error is. With those thought in mind, it is my firm belief that the genetic factor might be the most egregious one of them all.
One young man who was diagnosed as being bi-polar, became invovled with a young woman who wanted to become a mother. He said that he did not want to bring a new life into existence if that child inherited his genetic profile.
Subsequently they broke up and eventually with many other stressful ideas piling up inside his mind, this young man committed suicide. When I told this story to another "intelligent" friend of mine, he agreed whole heartedly that the young man was right not to risk becoming a father.
I have emphatically proven that in most cases these problems are all negotiable and choosing suicide would not be so readily anticipated if the prevailing beliefs in psychiatry mirrored my own.
When the accepted beliefs of any individual or community at large are in conflict with reality, untold anguish including death can be the result. How much longer must this go on???
While the best method is to face the truth, if that truth is itself false, then the side effects of such a situation can indeed by catastrophic.
Unfortunately the psychological community is giving far too much credence to the belief that most if not all mental illness is genetic in nature; when in reality, in most cases it is nurture or in other words, a behavioral problem that can be corrected.
In my book about the Human Mind, I mention that the current psychological beliefs have caused many suicides and other tragic events to occur. One other aspect of this situation is tragic also.
The psychological community doesn't seem to realize what the end result of their error is. With those thought in mind, it is my firm belief that the genetic factor might be the most egregious one of them all.
One young man who was diagnosed as being bi-polar, became invovled with a young woman who wanted to become a mother. He said that he did not want to bring a new life into existence if that child inherited his genetic profile.
Subsequently they broke up and eventually with many other stressful ideas piling up inside his mind, this young man committed suicide. When I told this story to another "intelligent" friend of mine, he agreed whole heartedly that the young man was right not to risk becoming a father.
I have emphatically proven that in most cases these problems are all negotiable and choosing suicide would not be so readily anticipated if the prevailing beliefs in psychiatry mirrored my own.
When the accepted beliefs of any individual or community at large are in conflict with reality, untold anguish including death can be the result. How much longer must this go on???
Thursday, 26 March 2015
SOUR GRAPES
Hello:
Today, March 26, 2015, I am officially giving up on my cherished
dream of seeing my ideas about fear, as described in my book called, --- “The
Human Mind”, accepted for the simple
truth that they represent.
I suppose I could avoid using the words “giving up” and replace
them with reasonable sounding excuses but I have chosen not to do so. Mainly
because the ideas in that book are so important that I should have been willing
to give up my life to bring about their acceptance sooner rather than later,
--- which will eventually occur.
I do not necessarily mean that I should have taken some risk
that would cause my death from outside sources, but rather, from the angst that
would have occurred inside my own body and the physical damage that would have helped
to bring about an earlier end to my life from inside sources of my own doing.
In this regard then, just because I have acquired this extra knowledge about how the human mind functions, does not mean that I am suddenly immune to their potential negative affects.
In this regard then, just because I have acquired this extra knowledge about how the human mind functions, does not mean that I am suddenly immune to their potential negative affects.
I am also "giving up", --- as I start giving excuses, --- because
of this simple expression: “You can lead
a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.”
The fact that I have no letters after my name is also an important constraint
against me in this situation.
Who am I to think that others would take my words as the "gospel" truth,
instead of those words uttered by other men and women who have spent their entire lives trying to
understand the manner in which the human mind functions?
It is true that I went to a competent University but it is totally unrecognized. I spent more than 40 years of my life reading books in my local libraries that were written by brilliant men and women about the subject and/or discipline of psychology.
My ideas are simply a distillation of the ideas that they put forward in their books. It is true that I had to disregard some of their ideas and hang on for dear life to others that they put forward.
It is true that I went to a competent University but it is totally unrecognized. I spent more than 40 years of my life reading books in my local libraries that were written by brilliant men and women about the subject and/or discipline of psychology.
My ideas are simply a distillation of the ideas that they put forward in their books. It is true that I had to disregard some of their ideas and hang on for dear life to others that they put forward.
In this regard then, I would like to mention some of those
authors right here. First would be Dr.
A. G. Forgione who wrote the book called, --- Fear (Learning To Cope). He came within an Ace of putting forward the
ideas that I have incorporated into my book.
Also receiving favourable mention would be Dr. Peter Breggin, Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, Dr. Charles Cunningham of the McMaster Hospital in
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and numerous others who I am not able to list to you
at this moment.
One of Winston Churchill’s more famous quotes is as follows: “Some men stumble over the truth, --- pick
themselves up and walk away as if nothing had happened.” Another of his quotations goes something like this,
--- [but not exactly]:
“You can always count on the human race to do the right thing, --- after they have exhausted every other possibility.” Unfortunately it looks like the world must still embrace other possibilities before my ideas about how the human mind functions are accepted for the simple truth that they represent.
“You can always count on the human race to do the right thing, --- after they have exhausted every other possibility.” Unfortunately it looks like the world must still embrace other possibilities before my ideas about how the human mind functions are accepted for the simple truth that they represent.
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
PARTIAL CURE FOR CANCER
Bon Jour Mon Ami:
In the story about Hans that I included in my book called, --- The Human Mind; I put forward the idea that although Sigmund Freud was right about fear being the most important aspect to determine human behavior, his penchant for substituting his own fears, (toilet training) or other fears, for that of his patients led him astray in his attempts to help other people.
I stated that his greatest asset might have been his affect on others who began to study the human mind and eventually came to better conclusions about how the human minds functions.
I now feel that I am about to do exactly what Sigmund Freud did. That is, he took his best educated guess as to what was happening and although he was wrong in most cases, he did get the ball rolling.
I am about to enter ideas about Cancer that are at the very edge of my knowledge. I believe that I am right on many of those accounts but I am also aware that deeper levels of truth remain to be discovered by others who read these words or practice what I am trying to preach. With those above thoughts in mind, I now enter the following ideas:
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In the story about Hans that I included in my book called, --- The Human Mind; I put forward the idea that although Sigmund Freud was right about fear being the most important aspect to determine human behavior, his penchant for substituting his own fears, (toilet training) or other fears, for that of his patients led him astray in his attempts to help other people.
I stated that his greatest asset might have been his affect on others who began to study the human mind and eventually came to better conclusions about how the human minds functions.
I now feel that I am about to do exactly what Sigmund Freud did. That is, he took his best educated guess as to what was happening and although he was wrong in most cases, he did get the ball rolling.
I am about to enter ideas about Cancer that are at the very edge of my knowledge. I believe that I am right on many of those accounts but I am also aware that deeper levels of truth remain to be discovered by others who read these words or practice what I am trying to preach. With those above thoughts in mind, I now enter the following ideas:
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PARTIAL CURE FOR CANCER
Sorry but I cannot offer you a guaranteed cure for
cancer. While it may seem tangential to
this discussion, the following ideas are definitely appropriate.
If you get shot in the heart, no amount of positive
thinking will save you. If you are in an
airplane that is about to crash into the ground, once again, no amount of positive thinking can save you.
But in many cases, the way you think, positively or
negatively, can save your life. I
cannot tell you exactly how this situation works but I am convinced that it
absolutely --- does work.
If you have smoked cigarettes most of your life and
you develop cancer from that behavior, I cannot offer to save you from the
scourges of cancer. What I can do is
offer you more time to enjoy life before the negative affects of smoking catch
up to you.
In some manner that I am not totally or completely cognizant of, the way you
think can effect your immune system and either prevent you from becoming sick
or it can do the opposite, --- even to the point of costing you your life.
The main operating function here is your immune
system. I believe I can influence your
immune system to eliminate the errors in reproduction that bring into existence
the cancerous cells.
So get in touch with me and we will talk about you. I will determine whether or not I can offer
to help you. Either to overcome your
cancer problems completely or give you more time on earth to deal with reality
as you see fit to do so.
Monday, 16 March 2015
THE VALUE OF POSITIVE THINKING IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DISEASE.
Hello Again:
Obviously the most emphatic example of the simple fact that fear can affect ones physical health is the story in my book about Helen Irving. Even more impressive, in my opinion, is the story about the soldiers in Korea and the high levels of plaque in their arteries.
To extrapolate from these stories and determine that other physical problems have a mental origin is not really far-fetched at all. The problem is that the situation becomes far more complex as you get into other areas of sickness and disease.
Cancer may be one of the most difficult diseases to pin down in this area. If you are told that you have a 20 % chance to survive a particular cancer, would it be wrong to put forward a positive attitude in the face of such poor odds?
One must keep in mind that it is a considered fact that if one thinks positively, it has a beneficial affect on ones immune system. Some researchers believe that we are bombarded by cancerous cells all the time but our immune system destroys them before they can harm us.
Taking the two above ideas into account then, --- it becomes self-evident that thinking positively about ones situation is much more realistic and beneficial than being negative.
Obviously the most emphatic example of the simple fact that fear can affect ones physical health is the story in my book about Helen Irving. Even more impressive, in my opinion, is the story about the soldiers in Korea and the high levels of plaque in their arteries.
To extrapolate from these stories and determine that other physical problems have a mental origin is not really far-fetched at all. The problem is that the situation becomes far more complex as you get into other areas of sickness and disease.
Cancer may be one of the most difficult diseases to pin down in this area. If you are told that you have a 20 % chance to survive a particular cancer, would it be wrong to put forward a positive attitude in the face of such poor odds?
One must keep in mind that it is a considered fact that if one thinks positively, it has a beneficial affect on ones immune system. Some researchers believe that we are bombarded by cancerous cells all the time but our immune system destroys them before they can harm us.
Taking the two above ideas into account then, --- it becomes self-evident that thinking positively about ones situation is much more realistic and beneficial than being negative.
Thursday, 12 March 2015
LOOKING TOO FAR AHEAD
Hello:
After the second World War ended, many of the politicians in England entertained realistic, --- but also fanciful dreams about the wonderful future for the world at large, that lay before them. Winston Churchill cautioned them about their focus of attention with the following words:
"Do not spend so much time dreaming about the wonderful future that lies ahead of us that you fail to salvage that which is left of the old world that we actually live in."
Both attitudes have value. I think that moderation as in most cases, --- is the key. After all, even though they displayed an outward level of high confidence, I am convinced that most Britons were very pessimistic about their chances to defeat Hitler for the longest time.
So it would seem almost natural for them to want to think positively, even if somewhat fancifully, now that the war was over. On the other hand, of course, Churchill was absolutely right. Salvaging what is left of the old should indeed be ones ultimate or primary focus.
My next words fall in line with the politicians in the above story, rather than with Churchill, but as long as I make them with the knowledge that moderation should prevail than I think they still have value.
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I am convinced that conglomerated and/or distorted fears are the real cause of stress related problems and not genetics entirely. In this regard then, I make the following, tongue in cheek, comments that might appear in a local newspaper, or in the internet, some time in the not too distant future. At least I hope it won't be too long.
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BIO-PSYCHIATRIC PROFESSION
PLUNGES INTO DEPRESSION
As a result of clarifying theories about distorted and/or conglomerated fear; certain forms of cognitive behavior therapy have been enjoying phenomenal success in their ability to help people with stress related problems that have the potential to result in depression, anxiety, OCD, and other forms of "so-called" mental illness.
The above situation has caused the general public at large, to almost completely ignore the bio- psychiatric profession when they decide to seek help for their problems.
This situation has also caused high levels of stress in the bio-psychiatric profession; so much so that they are also experiencing high levels of depression for their own members.
That high level of depression is further exasperated by even higher levels of guilt and remorse for the untold misery that their misguided theories have inflicted upon their unsuspecting patients.
In a voice overwhelmed and/or dripping with irony, a bio-psychiatrist observed: "At least if we go to a CBT for help, he or she will not fill our bodies and minds with mind altering drugs that have the potential to damage our brains, --- like we did to our "disappearing" patients."
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Hello:
My last post talked about government jobs (in the Toronto area) that are paying out a huge amount of money to people who are listed as stressed-out and unable to work.
I am offering the executives in charge of these positions a chance to reduce these expenditures by hiring me to help people more correctly and intelligently respond to the stress levels that are affecting them so negatively.
Some of that stress is occurring as a result of the responsibilities of their particular job, but also because of the stress-related mistakes that they are making in their personal lives too.
You have a choice, --- either continue to pay out millions in benefits to these stressed-out non-working employees or pay me hundreds of dollars to help them become more productive and happy.
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