mental health

  • Living in the Levant

    Living with a narcissistic psychopath is exhausting. It is constant effort.When no one is looking the abuse is almost random, but the sword is always overhead. To respond with anger is to fall into the trap. A no win situation:… Continue reading

  • The Game of Emotional Old Maid

    Everyone understands the dynamic: immature parents who push all of the emotional responsibility onto the oldest, or most mature child. Today, we have a couple of generations of people who were raised to believe that anger and hatred are unnatural… Continue reading

  • Psychology Of The Damned

    It seems the same people who say spanking a child is wrong, are all in favor of giving them drugs to “correct” the same behaviors. The differences are, spanking is free and stops after a short period of time… the… Continue reading

  • As Decay Takes Hold

    As industry pays politicians to undermine public trust in order to sell more weapons; as industry pays doctors to undermine science in order to sell more vaccines; and as industry pays psychologists to undermine mental health in order to sell… Continue reading

  • The Peeling Fire

    Famine comes on like a fire: slow at first, mostly smoke, then the conflagration builds exponentially to consume everything; peeling away the layers of decadence. The brochure life, built around the objects and routines that convey the illusion of maturity,… Continue reading

  • Throttle and Brake

    So far, in my fifty plus years of living, the hardest lesson to learn has been knowing when to press the throttle and when to press the brake. A lesson that is still playing out. Like everyone, information is continuously… Continue reading