Gadzooks!

What a week we're having. A brief respite though yesterday, but today we began sending people away at 2:00pm. What rich cases. Domestic violence victims, Cancer patients, Drug addicts, someone who had their first psychotic break. If you want a great education about mental illness, this is the place to be.

I loved the reaction I got from the person who was almost choked to death by their partner two days earlier. It was like a lightbulb went on in their head. When wounded from an early age and never really bonding with another person, it is natural to try to make that bond with somebody - anybody who shows interest in us. However if we are wounded and stuck in Erick Ericksons "Mistrust Phase" of development, we tend to seek others that are at that developmental level as well. It is natural that these early developmental period relationships can foster anger, paranoia, and violence. In learning how to heal this developmental issue, people can grow in amazing ways! The client was giddy as they left which warmed my heart. Then I was off to my next subject.

Probably the most tragic experiences for a human being is learning they have cancer. Then life is suddenly a death sentence. Oh yes, we all are destined to die, but that will happen sometime in the distant future. When that timeline is brought quickly forward, well, you can imagine the panic it puts people in. These clients are a God send to me. It helps me place life into its proper perspective. We all die. Then what? Even though I have had loads of paranormal experiences I have never died. What happens then? And that was what was on the client's mind. They were freaking out and as a therapist, if this issue was unresolved inside of me I would have been freaking out too. Without faith, an upcoming death would incapacitate the best of us. But how do we get faith? Especially when the obvious signs haven't been given to us. It's those subliminal clues that can lead to our enlightenment, if we allow them to. Perhaps that was why I was compelled to write my recent book on the paranormal experiences I had while living in a haunted house almost thirty years ago. It changed me. As would it to the average person. I saw and felt things that freaked me out! I had been compelled to write about it and in a week it should be out on Amazon.com. This client would eat up the pages of it, because step by step I shared my progression from spiritually ignorant to being enlightened - and still I am very apprehensive about death.

I lead a very rich professional life and days like this helps me appreciate my health, my coworkers who somehow keep their sanity, and my connection to God.

May you all have great mental health - PLEASE!