Depression is not a medical illness. Yet the belief that it is, remains being promoted by conventional medicine.The use of chemicals, such as brain drugs like “anti-depressants,” contributes to the idea that depression is an illness.“Chemical imbalance” is another label used. It’s most ...
Date Posted: October 17, 2021
Categories: Depression, Emptiness, Happiness
GO
I’ve been thinking today of coping with isolation. It appears uniform of the day given the current pandemic.
With the worsening Covid crisis, there has been renewed quarantines and lockdowns. How do we face this?
Understanding how isolation affects our health can be a relevant first ...
Sep 5
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues, Coping with Medical Problems, Emptiness
GO
Being selfish hurts you. It is dangerous.
Jul 22
Categories: Anger Management, Borderline Personality Disorder, Self-Care / Self ...
GO
Find purpose in the pain.I once heard the Pope praying that he dies quickly when it’s his time without the pain. “I’m not very good at pain,” he’d admit.In my psychotherapy work, people hate pain. The pain of their emotional wounds. Their trauma in life.“I feel a ...
May 2
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Addictions, Chronic Pain
GO
You must accept your self come what may. Healing through self acceptance is to tell yourself to accept yourself. Warts and all.
A lot of people are depressed, insecure, or addicted due to a lack of or inadequate self acceptance.
Mar 30
Categories: Adult psychological development, Depression, Post Traumatic Stress ...
GO
She looks legitimate. Fancy self-described Bitcoin millionaire and crypto trader.
Feb 22
Categories: Addictions, Compulsive Spending / Shopping, Fear
GO
It's in our hearts and minds all the time: the search for happiness.Carol knows it too well.
Feb 12
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
GO
People feel emptiness. Unrelieved, they resort to something outside of themselves.Something external like alcohol. Drugs. Food. Sex. Gambling. Shopping. Or, relationships, just to name a few.Pablo was a severely abused, unloved child. When he became an adult, he tried to fill the ...
Jan 5
Categories: Addictions, Depression, Emotional Abuse
GO
(Photo credit: Chess24)Can you change the past?Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? That’s what Jeremiah asked in Scripture (13:23)Some things cannot be changed.The most unchangeable is your past. You cannot undo it.
Nov 7
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adjusting to Change / Life ...
GO
Where do all our problems come?That’s a question once asked of me by TV host, Mel Tiangco, in a live telecast over at GMA7.She also asked about the “mother wound” in relation to the case her program presented during the show.Psychologist and author Dr. David Stoop mentions a ...
Sep 14
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adult psychological development, ...
GO
Susan is habitually unemployed because of frequent tardiness and absences. What do you do with an employee who’s always late or absent? For many years, Susan would be fired by bosses after only a short period of probation.Our sense of values is related to time. When we misuse ...
Aug 6
Categories: Anxiety, Emptiness, Mindfulness
GOWe have a lot of tired people nowadays.With Coronavirus, it’s painful “honest” tiredness from long or tedious quarantine or frontline work for a great many who serve.Tiredness can be of two kinds: physical and psychological.Physical: characterizing those who got sick or have medical problems like pre-existing conditions or ...
May 20
Categories: Caregiver Issues / Stress, Coping with Medical Problems, Emotional ...
GO
“Old age brings diminishments,” writes psychologist Erik Erickson. He describes how the elderly experience this: “Old patients seem to be mourning not only for time forfeited and space depleted but also ... for autonomy weakened, initiative lost, intimacy missed, generativity ...
May 3
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Anxiety, Pain management
GO
How do you mentally prepare for the pandemic? How do you survive home quarantine or self isolation?Isolation and home quarantine can have real emotional and psychological “side effects.”We can lose our mind getting stuck at home!Let me share here with you my list: HOW NOT TO GO CRAZY ...
Apr 17
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Coping with Medical Problems, ...
GO
Infidelity is a deepest psychological cut. It’s a leading cause of breakdown, separation, and divorce in marriages or romantic relationships.Betrayal in intimate relationships can be so devastating that it can lead to suicide, homicide, and other crimes of passion.In my years of practice as a ...
Feb 18
Categories: Couple Counseling, Infidelity, Marital Counseling
GO
As I write this, the world is facing a growing health crisis.The so-called “2019 novel corona virus,” traced to originate from Wuhan, China, is fast spreading to different countries, such as the USA, Canada, Korea, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Philippines, among others.Recent news tells ...
Jan 31
Categories: Coping with Medical Problems, Fear, Health / Illness / Medical Issues
GO
Dr. Angelo Subida is a clinical psychotherapist, author, and speaker. He is author of books "Inner Healing," "Secrets Of Your Self," "Chess and Life," among others, blogs, and articles. He has appeared frequently as an expert on psychotherapy/life recovery issues on national television, radio broadcasts, print media, and webcasts, including GMA 7, TV 5, ABS CBN 2, Q-11, 700 Club, Radyo Veritas, Inquirer Radio, Smart Parenting Magazine, Business Mirror, among others, and has served as resident therapist/counselor for parents and kid-artists in the highly popular ABS-CBN 2 Voice Kids TV singing reality show. Dr. Subida is an eclectic, multidisciplinary therapist and originator of his own revolutionary high-tech, high-touch counseling plus model. His areas of specialization include parent-child therapy, clinical infidelity treatment, relationship/marital counseling, separation/divorce therapy, anger management, depression, addictions, psychotherapy-spirituality integration, and innovative chess therapy. For more of Dr. Subida, you can find him at www.drsubida.com.
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist belongs to Dr. Angelo Subida Psychotherapy Clinic in Philippines
