“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 neglected - not to ...
Date Posted: May 3, 2020
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Anxiety, Pain management
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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, ...
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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
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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
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Money is powerful. It can be a cruel, relentless master. Money problems often lead to mental health issues.Teresa is deep in credit card debts. By the hundreds of thousands. Part of it, a result of getting scammed by a cash-dependent boyfriend.Although working, her salary cannot possibly meet ...
Jan 24
Categories: Depression, Fear, Self-Care / Self Compassion
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The truth is, toxic people are a part of life.They’re everywhere - our neighborhoods, offices, governments, hospitals, schools, and sadly, often right among our family members, relatives and friends.A number of qualities characterize them and their typical toxic pattern of attacking or ...
Dec 30
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Bullying, Emotional Abuse
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The Roman philosopher Cicero once wrote, “Man is liable to error, and it is a fool who continues in error.”
Dec 11
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Depression, Marital Counseling
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Do you know that you’re an artist? Let me explain a bit.
Oct 27
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
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Humans are creatures of habit. Habits are either good or bad. They can be constructive or destructive, nurturing or not, of your personal growth.Once your habits have been developed, they naturally turn autopilot. You just think, feel, or do them even without noticing or being aware of them.
Oct 18
Categories: Addictions, Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Emotional Abuse
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When I was a teenager, I learned the game of chess. An uncle who used to stay in a place near us taught me the fundamentals.
Sep 29
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Attachment Issues, Depression
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Pamela said that she didn’t want to lose her husband and hurt their children. And so she found her self getting too angry.
Sep 20
Categories: Anger Management, Attachment Issues, Emotional Abuse
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Much deterioration in therapy happens when failure is not processed effectively.
Sep 1
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adult psychological development, ...
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I met Donna, a woman in her 70s. She was Mom to one of my clients, Tess, who suffered from severe depression and alcoholism.
Aug 21
Categories: Emotional Abuse, Family Problems, Personality problems
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In a certain sense, all of us are born "narcissists." We each carry remnants of our infancy or childhood narcissism. Nothing is as real to us as we feel like the center of the world.
Aug 7
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Emotional Abuse, Family Problems
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I enjoy watching the sun when it rises. It’s beautiful. But I get to savor it only for awhile because it sets.One way or another, every thing or experience must end. There’s no such thing as a lifetime insurance or guarantee. That includes relationships.Psychotherapist Dr. Irvin ...
Jul 24
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Relationships & Marriage, ...
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”Straighten up or leave,” says Mary to her husband Don. He left. And things still worked out beautifully for her.
Jul 13
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Infidelity, Marital Counseling
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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 O. Subida Psychotherapy Clinic in Philippines
