“Give While You Live” is the title of a post written by John Blase for Daily Bread.It’s a psychotherapeutic slogan for me. It promotes one’s overall mental health and well being.Giving can boost both mental and physical health. Research shows that those who give live longer and have happier ...
Date Posted: February 24, 2022
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Control Issues, Depression
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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 ...
Oct 17
Categories: Depression, Emptiness, Happiness
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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 ...
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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
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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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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 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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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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It’s Christmas season again.
Dec 26
Categories: Art Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Depression
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Recently, two well-loved celebrities committed suicide. The world is stunned and sad.
Jun 12
Categories: Adult psychological development, Depression, Suicide Prevention
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Dina seemed incapable of receiving compliments. In our “chit chat” during session, after I’d affirmed her accomplishments and good looks, she started avoiding eye contact by staring at the floor or holding her self tightly.
Feb 17
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Depression, Emotional Abuse
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A new year slogan says, “The best is yet to come!”I like that. In my experience, and in the experience of a great many people, it can be true or inspiring a lot of times.
Jan 5
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Depression, Family Problems
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When you're psychologically depressed, you're behaviorally depressed. Your mind expects more pain than gain. Life doesn't excite you any more. You feel you're unfit for life. That depresses you even more.One solution is pretty simple. Direct.
When you find your self - whether ...
Sep 11
Categories: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Depression, Happiness
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I once heard the reminiscences of a 70+ year old man who lost his wife to cancer.
Aug 8
Categories: Depression, Emptiness, Happiness
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“How do I emotionally survive the ‘merry’ holidays?,” consciously or unconsciously you ask your self.Perhaps you’re going through separation, wounds from infidelity, divorce, failure, severe trauma or tension. You fear the fact that you might not enjoy the holidays. ...
Dec 23
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
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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
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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
