Keith R. Wilson's Blog, page 8

Soft Drugs Are More Addicting Than Hard Drugs

Most people divide substances into two categories: the hard drugs like heroin, cocaine, and crystal meth, and the soft drugs like alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and prescribed narcotics. Hard drugs are all illegal in the US, they are sold exclusively by underworld organizations, they are associated with the down and out, are socially unacceptable for mostContinue reading "Soft Drugs Are More Addicting Than Hard Drugs"

Needed: Peer Reviewers

I’m in the final stage of writing, Meeting the Voices in My Head and Searching for an Inner Adult. The book examines the nature of the inner psychological world. I’m looking for peer reviewers who can read it on a pdf format within 3 months and answer a few questions I have about plot, characters,Continue reading "Needed: Peer Reviewers"

Why You Don’t Take Care of Yourself

You care for yourself. You care whether you live or die. You want to prosper, thrive, and flourish. You have sympathy for your point of view. You defend yourself from those who would malign you. You are your own main guy, without whom, you’d be sunk. You may not be the center of the universe,Continue reading "Why You Don’t Take Care of Yourself"

Venting

I lot of people mistake venting for therapy. They think that if they can say what’s on their mind, they’ll feel better and get that problem off their chest. They will, up to a point. If you have something you’re trying to figure out, or something you need to be honest about, then vent away.Continue reading "Venting"

Burdens and the Peddlers That Traffic in Them

If the inside of my own head is any indication, we all carry psychological burdens. If that’s not bad enough, we try to trade one burden for another and end up carrying them both. I got one of my burdens when I was about eight years old, riding the school bus. No one would sitContinue reading "Burdens and the Peddlers That Traffic in Them"

It’s Not How Much You Use, It’s What Happens When You Use

Some Things You Might Not Know About Addiction Grandma doesn’t drink much. She only has a glass of champagne every New Year’s Eve. But, boy, oh, boy, you should see what happens then. Last New Year’s she danced on the kitchen table, fell, and broke her hip. The year before, she stripped off all herContinue reading "It’s Not How Much You Use, It’s What Happens When You Use"

Three Ways to Deliver a Message

When it comes to verbalizing what you want, there are three ways of delivering a message, just like there are three ways of delivering a package. I’d like to show you what they are if that’s OK? It is? Good. Let’s start with the two most popular ways of delivering a package. The first isContinue reading "Three Ways to Deliver a Message"

What’s the Best Form of Psychotherapy?

The easiest method of doing something is not always the most effective; but it is the easiest, so that’s saying something for it. Easy is more effective than the most effective if the most effective is impossible for you to do. When it comes to treatment for mental illness, if I were to rank theContinue reading "What’s the Best Form of Psychotherapy?"

Shame and the Rebel

Part 7g of Meeting the Voices in My Head and Searching for an Inner Adult The Rebel regards my Feelings as entirely within the concept it has of myself, so it doesn’t have much of a problem with them; with one exception, the feeling of Shame. As far as the Rebel is concerned, Shame isContinue reading "Shame and the Rebel"

The Rebel’s Constituency

Part 7f of Meeting the Voices in My Head and Searching for an Inner Adult Like any oppositional leader, the Rebel claims to speak for the marginalized, in this case, the Innermost Child. If you remember, the Innermost Child is the original part of me, but it’s still there. It feels things that are notContinue reading "The Rebel’s Constituency"