Sunday, February 25, 2018

Honestly I just want to recommend the spinach dip


This could go on any of my blogs, but I have decided to put it on my mental health blog.  It has to do with how I just ate some of the yummiest food I have ever had but also just read some news that reminded me of people suffering, and not just suffering, but suffering because of evil and lack of service and wisdom.  And it makes me feel a little bit bad about eating some yummy spinach dip right now.  But I think that I am going to have some peace about it because basically one of the things I am sad about is how thirteen medical centers got bombed by Russia and Assad's bad people, and I am going to say to myself in my happy food moments after cleaning my safe but messy apartment all day, that Russia is not going to take me down with those people.  Sometimes I do think it is good to share people's sorrow, even down to actual on-site sacrificial living that makes people experience literally the same plight of anyone with certain pain or hardship.  But I think that today I will be one less targeted soul that Russia gets away with hurting, and I will be happy about having such a yummy meal.

A Revolutionary Therapy called "Sanity"


You know how they have therapies called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and other mental health strategies like "mindfulness?" And things like "psychodynamic" schools of thought or very specific concepts like "radical acceptance?"  Well I have an idea for a new therapy called "sanity." It is where you just decide not to be mentally ill.  People say I should not joke about that and people are hurt all the time by authorities who do no believe in mental illness or people who think you can will your way out of depression, or even some mental health people whose therapies actually boil down to just telling people to stop being crazy.  But I do think it is funny to just invent a therapy like that, which actually could help a little bit if it is combined with other treatments like medicine, or counseling, or teaching a cruel society to stop hurting everyone and driving everyone to the brink of madness.