Posts in this section will address the usual and unusual hot topics in mental health and treatment, but there won’t be a lot of “clinical” language. I’ll be translating all that cool stuff from an fMRI scan and the DSM-5 into language that hopefully addresses your life experience. Rather than focusing on the neurobiology of addiction or how systemic inflammation correlates to depression, we’ll focus on how life feels and flows, which way the wind is blowing, and how “latest developments” can help make us stronger and free.
Please know, this is NOT the often-heard, condescending put-this-in-simple-English rap you may have gotten from your family physician. Most of us are pretty well-versed these days in the language of mental health. Yet I firmly believe that human being is an art, a journey. We are more than the sum of our parts. Our life consists of heart, mind, body and spirit working all together, all the time. I can only describe some issue in terms of parts and processes if I’m working on my car…sometimes not even then. So, in this section we’ll be addressing the challenges of life in the language of life
You’ll just have to take my word for it that I really did go to school. Honest. I swear.
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