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.
Date Posted: January 5, 2018
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Depression, Family Problems
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"What love? We just have sex," Melanie cried during a session. Melanie, whose husband is heavily into pornography, experiences no tenderness in their marriage. Everything is done so fast. She just feels so used.Pornography damages. Psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually. It ...
Oct 18
Categories: Sexual Problems / Sex Therapy
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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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I surmise that countless people experience sadness after sex. Psychologists call this psychological phenomenon “postcoital tristresse.”
Aug 2
Categories: Relationships & Marriage, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Problems / Sex ...
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Recently, a man named Jessie was in headline news. He was a gambling addict who lost millions to casinos. A few days ago, he went inside Resorts World Manila with armalite rifles and bottles with gasoline. He burned the casino tables and slot machines in the area. And then robbed millions worth of ...
Jun 1
Categories: Addictions, Gambling Addiction, Happiness
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Every human being is designed to love and be loved. Things are designed to be used.A big reason why much in our relationships are in chaos is because we use people and things are ones loved by us.I’ve once a married couple in therapy that lasted for about a year. Both of them came from very ...
May 11
Categories: Emotional Abuse, Love addiction, Relationships & Marriage
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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 ...
Feb 25
Categories: Addictions, Infidelity, Pain management
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Do you have an entitled self? What I mean is, one suffering from a ...
Feb 8
Categories: Abortion, Addictions, Personality problems, Self-Esteem
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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, ...
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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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You may ask, “How can I be responsible when I’m the one abused, hurt, or ‘sinned against’?”
Dec 3
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adjusting to Change / Life ...
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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
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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 ...
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"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 & ...
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British poet Thomas Eliot once wrote in 1935, “Human kind can not bear very much reality.” 30 years later, he as well as his loved ones were forced to bear reality. Thomas stopped writing – and breathing. It’s painful but it’s fact.
Jan 9
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
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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
