Why resort to psychology?

All humans have something in common, and yet each person is absolutely unique. It's hard for us to remember.

In the coming and going of day to day we surprise ourselves looking at the clock, going up, down, enjoying, doing, working, resting, eating... And almost no space left to perceive ourselves. So much so, that during a single day emotions follow one another like a roller coaster, going from moments of being very well, doing what we "have", to moments of setbacks that can lead us to feel discontent, anger, sadness and even pain.

Likewise, the laughter of a specific moment, an unexpected encounter, a surprise, a boy or a girl or a loved one They can lead to joy, carelessness, and even happiness that feels whole and real in just a moment. instant.

And so we spend our lives, living one day after another with a goal (or not); and each of us lives it in their own way, so personal and non-transferable that it is impossible to clone the emotions felt. There may be two people who do exactly the same thing in their days, but they don't live it in the same way. Even so, all of us, absolutely each and every one of the human beings, have an end, here, death, which means the end known to this walk along a path full of experiences that we experience and that touch us, that change us, that complete what vivid.

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Discomfort is part of life

In our walk -everyone is well known and socially accepted- we visit different health professionals; our body deteriorates or suffers circumstances that need attention. And we give it to them.

We go to the doctors, for example to a family doctor to help us deal with unusual pain, to a digestive to see what happens with those daily stomach cramps, to a traumatologist for a pain in a muscle or a bone fracture, to a pulmonologist for an infection in the respiratory system, to an oncologist when we know that our body suffers from a cancer... and thus the list of health professionals dedicated to the "physical" "body" expands as a wide fan, attending and treating diseases that damage our body, that weaken us and make us feel evil.

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And what happens when it is our mind that suffers?

What do we do when we can no longer deal with what we are feeling and living "inside"? It is not something that is seen, only one suffers it. That "regret" that goes inside and how we understand it (or not) accompanies us every moment and hurts us. It can be routine circumstances that we go through that we find difficult to handle; They can be sudden situations that happen to us and we cannot process; there can be as many things as there are humans in the world, "things" that charge us emotionally, making life heavier, more difficult, darker.

Everything that happens to us has an impact on our body, but also on our mind, affecting our way of thinking, acting, and feeling. There are experiences that we perceive as unbearable that have a direct effect on our way of being, they mark us and leave (literally speaking) their mark. These footprints also make us who we are., especially when we can look at them in the face and accept them. I am referring not only to the metaphorical traces, but literally to the 'physical' traces in our brain, which, just as in our body, weigh and make themselves felt. So much so that they even mark our way of seeing life, of interacting with others, of perceiving the world around us.

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The importance of mental health

It is so accepted that the body deteriorates and the brain being a fundamental part of it, even today -although luckily less every day - it is still taboo to take responsibility for what we feel, to admit that it is difficult for us, that we cannot or do not want to continue.

It is natural to go through less good times. It is also natural to face situations that we do not seek and occur, and we do not want to accept. And it is also natural to be overwhelmed by moments and circumstances that rob us of balance and peace.

If your body complains over time, your mind, which accompanies it every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every month, every year of your life, from the moment you open your eyes when you come into this world until you close them to leave it... Your mind hurts also. And when your mind can find peace and quiet living what you live, then your body also responds. We are beings in which duality is symbiotic, a two-way highway that needs to be seen.

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The role of psychology

There are different specialties in Psychology. Since an eye doctor is not specialized to tell you what type of fracture you have in a bone, neither is a psychologist. But there are different specialties, as in medicine, with different techniques, models and structured therapies. that have been investigated and show efficacy in different emotional ailments and/or in so-called diseases mental.

It is wise to go to a qualified professional to open doors to the understanding and integration of what you are going through, it is your right to look for options that can give you something more to overcome what you are living.

And I keep asking myself, for many years now: When will we talk about a "primary psychologist"?