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 lot of pain. Cant ...
Date Posted: May 2, 2021
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Addictions, Chronic Pain
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She looks legitimate. Fancy self-described Bitcoin millionaire and crypto trader.
Feb 22
Categories: Addictions, Compulsive Spending / Shopping, Fear
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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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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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At 3 a.m., in a city bar, Lorena was drunk and starving for attention. It's hot, drippy, delicious, and she couldn't get enough of it from her flirting.
May 10
Categories: Addictions, Codependency / Dependency, Love addiction
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One moment in psychotherapy stands out for me: when tears fall from the eyes of a wounded patient.
Mar 30
Categories: Addictions, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex ...
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A 30-year-old man is addicted to pornography and alcohol. For over 10 years of his young life, he has become progressively addicted to his chosen “drugs.”
Jan 22
Categories: Addictions, Control Issues, Family of Origin Issues / Codependency
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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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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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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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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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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 / ...
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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
