The best advice I notice you mention is the skill of being able to observe your emotions (like an anxious thought) without letting them take control or hijack your brain.
I love the concept of becoming a Lighthouse:
In a storm, the lighthouse gets wet
While the rowboat gets destroyed.
It's a fantastic tool of imagery that can help you navigate your fleeting inner emotions as well as observed chaotic behavior by others around you.
You observe your fleeting anxious thought or the outburst of a family member who is trying to draw you into conflict... and then it passes. You remain the observant strong lighthouse, not allowing the situation to draw you deeper into inner turmoil or outward escalating conflict.
The imagery works. You become an observer. Hope that helps some of your readers.
>In the rush to diagnose and treat, clinicians may take these revelations at face value, mistaking the patient's internal narrative for objective reality.
This is why people are terrified of 'getting help.' Due to mandatory reporting, one 'wrong word' and the feds are busting down your door with a no-knock warrant and shooting your dog. Better to just jump on a trampoline in the sunshine singing about 'anxiety.'
I paused where you wrote how today’s so called treatment for anxiety is emotional anesthesia. Well said. Thank you for always providing your readers with well-researched and solid evidence on how we’re mismanaging mental health.
Dr. RM,
The best advice I notice you mention is the skill of being able to observe your emotions (like an anxious thought) without letting them take control or hijack your brain.
I love the concept of becoming a Lighthouse:
In a storm, the lighthouse gets wet
While the rowboat gets destroyed.
It's a fantastic tool of imagery that can help you navigate your fleeting inner emotions as well as observed chaotic behavior by others around you.
You observe your fleeting anxious thought or the outburst of a family member who is trying to draw you into conflict... and then it passes. You remain the observant strong lighthouse, not allowing the situation to draw you deeper into inner turmoil or outward escalating conflict.
The imagery works. You become an observer. Hope that helps some of your readers.
Thanks for your post!
Love this! Thank you for sharing
>In the rush to diagnose and treat, clinicians may take these revelations at face value, mistaking the patient's internal narrative for objective reality.
This is why people are terrified of 'getting help.' Due to mandatory reporting, one 'wrong word' and the feds are busting down your door with a no-knock warrant and shooting your dog. Better to just jump on a trampoline in the sunshine singing about 'anxiety.'
I paused where you wrote how today’s so called treatment for anxiety is emotional anesthesia. Well said. Thank you for always providing your readers with well-researched and solid evidence on how we’re mismanaging mental health.