Just because it is overdiagnosed doesn’t mean some children don’t have it.

Just my .02

Lucy
njmomblog.wordpress.com

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/10/03/is-psychology-rotten-to-the-core/

http://societyforhumanisticpsychology.blogspot.com/2009/10/common-factors-in-psychotherapy-brief.html

My response: prof. Mick Cooper: ‘the myth of CBT’… There are many meta-analyses that CBT is not more effective than other forms of psychotherapy. Like experiëntial psychotherapy (person-centered)is as effective as CBT and even sometimes more effective.
See also: professors Robert Elliott and Beth Freire presented a meta-analysis of more than 80 studies where person-centered psychotherapy was shown to be as effective as other forms of psychotherapy, including CBT:
http://www.bapca.co.uk/uploads/files/Meta-Summary091708.doc

The answer is NOT: CBT is superior! The answer is: when is CBT superior (for which clients!), when is experiëntial therapy superior, when is psychodynamic therapy superior. So when will CBT sees the place they deserve: thay are NOT superior, they are doing as good (or as bad) as other bonafide therapies. That’s it.

I don’t trust psychotherapists. Many of them are in College Fraternities (Secret Societies). There is nothing that you can tell these people that will be kept confidential. These Secret Societies are being put into every position of power. They have created an invisible society within our society. If a potential employer (who is in a Secret Society) or a government agent wants to know your deepest darkest secrets, this “psychotherapist” will tell them everything about you (without a warrant). They are loyal to their Fraternity, above everything else, and it is ultra secretive. This is the big secret that the “mainstream” American public doesn’t know.

People often wonder why Secret Societies are soooo secretive. Its because if you don’t know about it, you can’t complain that your rights were violated. They will say, “it never happened!” I was sexually assulted by these people as a child, and as predicted, they are saying “it never happened.” My blog:

http://goodcraftsman.wordpress.com

I just wanted to say, great site!

I am a psychotherapist in Toronto looking to network with other therapists. If you want, you can check out my website or blog. http://www.kimberlymoffit.com or http://www.torontopsychotherapist.blogspot.com.

Hope to hear from you soon,

Kim

When you look at real, biochemical illnesses that affect mood and behavior, you see that they ALWAYS affect not only one particular area of functioning (such as energy, mood, or behavior), but rather span through almost every level of cognition. Schizophrenia, for example, causes disorders in mood, thought, language, speech, psychomotor behavior and perception. It is a true illness likely caused by a genetic malformation of the brain. Parkinson’s Disease is similar: a lack of dopamine which cause motor neutron degradation and, very frequently, profound depression. But people diagnosed with so-called bipolar disorder usually do not have any impairment in their cognitive abilities or psychomotor behavior. More often than not they are labile Borderline Personalities who would respond positively to therapy, or even victims of trauma and abuse (which may accompany Borderline Personalties) who need to address these issued and be successfully treated. To dope them up on powerful antipsychotics and anticonvulsants is simply bad medicine.

One only has to start delving into the buddhist literature to become aware of its cultural contextualism and concommitant changes in practice. trying to still the mind by being still, only poses a problem of movement, for that becomes a distraction – the world is not still. Jung again – on the one who seeks a world where nothing changes.

The connectedness of all things is ok for those who have time and composure for such “thoughts”. yet they do seem to be transcendental justifications for more practical issues of what to do when you can sleep or cannot stop thinking (about everything and its connection – which in heightened manic type states becomes exhausting and non productive, or rather productive of anything and everything)

Yet mindfulness is, if we regard the mind as the body, connected with touch and breathing and physical states, such as warmth and cold. Emptying the mind via such immediate non cognitive experiences can help ameliorate this overwhelming tendency to simply, halt the mind (for a while), which is what mindfulness therapies seem to do: though to justify that is more than there is space for here.
Where do i meditate, walking, running, swimming – mindfull of my breathing (especially the out breath!), and my contact with what i touch