Psychotherapy: beyond the concept of 'madness'

Psychotherapy is a resource developed from many theories about the human being; theories developed through dozens, even hundreds of years of research.

It serves to overcome practically any emotional discomfort or behavioral alteration.

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Mental health is a complex issue

Contrary to what many believe, psychotherapy is not only for the so-called "crazy"; the colloquially called "madness" is actually some type of disorder with specific symptoms and, like many other pathologies, it can be mitigated or even eliminated. As if that were not enough, everyone is different, and can even change in radical aspects of their behavior, perhaps with a little professional support.

But, on the other hand, if you have that "madness" in a clinically diagnosed way, it would be absolutely disabling. In cases like this it is not possible to take care of oneself, nor is it possible to make your own decisions... unless fully treated clinically. And I insist: it is transitory, if you have it, it can be eliminated.

The person with mental problems is not that way of functioning, nor is it "madness." Each diagnosis needs to be confirmed for at least 6 months, and when it is confirmed, the symptoms will have changed, or perhaps even disappeared ...

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Why can't we talk about crazy people?

Now, being frank: Who is perfect? Whoever thinks he is perfect, then he is in trouble, since he is condemned to stagnation absolute, lack of meaning, frustration, but even if this is not the case, one should talk about "Crazy." Therefore, something so complex should not be vulgarly called “madness”.

Although I have been referring implicitly to some types of severe psychosis, the term "insanity" is not correct. In any case the term would be psychosis, brief, postpartum, paranoid, schizophrenic, depressive... and of each one there are different types of causes and times of diagnoses. For instance, genetic, congenital, social, cultural, substance, educational or learned causes, etc.

Here I want to emphasize that, in itself, we are a society in which the naturalization of the sick and the pathologization of the healthy prevail. A clear example is alcohol consumption, another is infidelity, or the belief that fidelity is not possible (among many other poorly learned beliefs). Another example, living only to work and earn money, and not to serve because "there are people who need me", "because it is my passion, my vocation to do what I do."

It seems normal not to give permanent importance to our own existence because our loved ones need us, and not doing the job that touches us with the best attitude because we really do not feel important in what we make.

Being necessary is great, so if we work tirelessly to support our families we don't have to being in a bad mood most of the time, but we do need to change our approach, and for this we require a professional.

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The importance of psychotherapy

So you do not have "madness", but take care to live better; put those annoyances aside, whatever they are. If you do it on your own initiative, you may have greater sanity than people who don't. Whatever the matter, if you approach it optimistically, you can surely improve your quality of life in every way. Isn't that sanity?

When I say that you see a professional, I do not necessarily mean that you pay me a family package of 7 consultations at MXN $ 3,200; I also mean and invite you to do something to get rid of that annoyance on your own: read a book, go back to dreaming as before, allow yourself what you were so excited about, take it back in some way, with a mentor, therapist... but do something at once. respect.

Returning to the main theme, it is not good to get used to what is not considered fair to oneself, speaking of a society that makes the harmful and disapproves of the beneficial... There are also couples who they live in a codependent way, they get along more badly than well and sometimes admitting it causes them a certain satisfaction. Sometimes the social recognition of this toxic relationship as something "romantic", on the part of her friends, makes that couple follow her having a bad time and reproducing the "cycle of violence" over and over again, believing that because there are moments of "honeymoon", that relationship is well.

Nevertheless, you always need an "awakening", a second opinion apart from your own, from a professional of the psyche or human relationships, with others or with himself, with his own existence.

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Concluding

Finally, I want to tell you that I do not put a bibliography on this article, because being frank with you, time is money, but mainly I tell you: If you are not willing to trust in your ability to improve your existence or your life, even less will you trust a server, cite the books that you cite ...

I seldom read to my client-patients book fragments in my sessions, but if you need it, I will ...