Pain is inevitable in human life. Whether physical or emotional pain, no one escapes this reality. What do you do when it comes?Many years ago, I was at the bedside of my younger sister, Cecille, who got confined at the ICU of the Philippine Heart Center. She wailed, gripped the bed rail tight, and experienced ...
Date Posted: February 25, 2017
Categories: Addictions, Infidelity, Pain management
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Do you have an entitled self? What I mean is, one suffering from a ...
Feb 8
Categories: Abortion, Addictions, Personality problems, Self-Esteem
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
This morning, as I was sipping my brewed coffee, I read a Christmas comment of Pope Francis (a psychologist himself) of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. He remarked and decried that Christmas has always been "taken hostage" by dazzling materialism that puts God in the shadows. ...
Dec 27
Categories: Abortion, Addictions, Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
I’m reminded of Aldous Huxley, a noted writer-philosopher. He was dying. At his deathbed, he was asked what words and wisdom he would like to tell and leave to the world. He replied, “I wish people would be kinder to each other.”What does “kindness” mean? Here’s ...
Sep 27
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Addictions, Marital Counseling
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Contrary to claims of traditional treatment centers, simply admitting addiction and abstaining do little in themselves. It’s crucial that you know your values, what’s really important to you, for significant life change to happen.A 50-year-old married patient, Orlando, for example, was ...
Jul 16
Categories: Addictions, Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Values ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
"There is no incurable illness, only incurable people.” That’s Dr. Bernie Siegel in his book “Love, Medicine, & Miracles,” with a subtitle “lessons learned about self-healing from a surgeon’s experience with exceptional patients.”That statement ...
Jun 1
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Addictions, Relationships & ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Picture this: someone walks up to you today and, quite matter-of-factly, informs you, “You’re an addict.”How would you react? You might recoil and bristle in indignation. You might wonder at the sanity of this person, and not without reason either. Why, you hardly drink at all ...
Jan 20
Categories: Addictions, Drug Addiction, Gambling Addiction, Love addiction
Written By:
Maryann Wei
In the Dialogues of Plato, we read, "For self-knowledge would certainly be maintained by me to be the very essence of knowledge, and in this I agree with him who dedicated the inscription 'Know Thyself!' at Delphi."What does it take to know your self? It is to see and realize your ...
Sep 30
Categories: Addictions, Depression, Self-Esteem
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
When recovering from illness or breakdown, it can be easy to feel bored by routine. Since one is developing new healthy habits to heal, one may feel trapped at a certain point. This is especially so when healing gets routine and a voice within protests against changing.Professionally and ...
Aug 30
Categories: Addictions, Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Life Purpose / ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
A study just published online in the prestigious medical journal Lancet (Dalsgaard et al, 2015) has for first time obtained substantive evidence of an increased mortality rate in persons with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The study by Dalsgaard and his colleagues at Aarhus ...
Apr 2
Categories: Addictions, Adult ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ...
Written By:
Brian Scott
Let me tell you something that might sound radical to you: we all live in an "addicted society." Society contributes a huge part into the corruption, dysfunction, or breakdown of individuals and families in our world. Would that be so difficult for you to grasp?One time, I was speaking to ...
Jul 14
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Addictions, Spirituality
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
One time, Mary saw me for counseling. She just checked her husband's emails and social media accounts. To her shock, she discovered that her husband has been having secret multiple sexual relationships with various men in all their 20 years of marriage. Her husband is a gay sex ...
Jul 4
Categories: Addictions, Dependency Problems, Marital Counseling
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
I quite frequently receive heartbreaking requests from individuals who are in a painful relationship or marriage in which their mate is suffering from some kind of serious psychological problem such as alcoholism, gambling addiction etc. Often these individuals are isolated and confused ...
Jun 17
Categories: Addictions, Family Problems, Mental Health in Asia, Relationships ...
Written By:
Brian Scott
When I saw Tonton, he was severely hurt, depressed, and breaking down. He was in much tears. He just caught his wife cheating again over the internet and seeing the OP (other person).Along the way, he was able to check reality and acknowledge to himself that his wife remained unrepentant of her ...
Jun 7
Categories: Addictions, Ending a relationship issues, Relationships & Marriage
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
People drink for all sorts of reason. Some reasons are to socialize, celebrate and relax. Other times people use alcohol as a form of self-medication to help them manage stress, anxiety or to use it to distract them from unpleasant or unhappy situations in their life.Alcohol has a strong effect on ...
Apr 2
Categories: Addictions, Couple Counseling, Men's Issues, Women's Issues, ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
Short term relief does not last. It can in fact become a separate psychological issue unto itself.When John saw me for help, he has been under psychiatric treatment for over 10 years. Despite the length of his treatment, he remained "stuck" within himself - psychologically, emotionally, ...
Apr 1
Categories: Addictions, Emptiness, Grief, Loss, Bereavement
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
