Feel like a misfit?
Feeling like a misfit is a lonely place. Great ted talk about feeling like you don’t fit, coming from hardship and working through the shame that causes us to get in our own way.
Pain pill epidemic.
Doctors and Drug Dealers. How different are they? Are doctors the new drug dealers? Controlled substances really aren’t different from street drugs. Pain pills have the same chemical structure as heroin.
How to help someone who is grieving?
Grieving…platitudes and trite responses are not helpful.
Niceness as a defense.
Is being nice also kind?
Trauma and abuse
Verbal Abuse. Research says that it can be worse than physical abuse.
Joy can be so terrifying that we avoid it all together.
Joy and happiness…are we afraid to feel it?
Childhood trauma
Trauma Childhood trauma and healing.
Anxiety and Millennials.
Millennials and mental health
The psychology behind the public bathroom fiasco
Was Freud right? Anxiety, shame, psychosexual stages of development, binary gender roles…it’s all included in this hot button topic.
Doctors…are they legal drug dealers?
Prescription Thugs. Good documentary about the prescription drug epidemic in our country. Big pharma, doctors, pharmaceutical reps…are they all just drug pushers and dealers? Big pharma doesn’t seem to want to create meds that eradicate illness…there is not as much profit in that. They want to develop drugs to manage symptoms and keep you reliant on meds. Narcotics like opiates, benzos and amphetamines are some of the most highly prescribed meds and are also highly correlated with addiction.