I actually hated the subject of psychology throughout high school and pretty much up until I found Teal Swan in late 2014/early 2015 because in high school I didn't want anyone to put me in a box (it's a Pisces rising thing, we usually hate being pinned down with labels by others) and I was surprised the personality tests were actually rather accurate in year 9 when we were studying those for career ideas (I am INFJ if anyone is curious. I do prefer astrology though, astrology deals with energies and is very interesting to study. It has been studied for thousands of years so there is a bit more to it. Some people say there is a mathematical component to it as well) I was also one of few in the class who used both their left and right brain, most people are dominant one way or the other.
Many of my friends and classmates took the psych class for VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) and I glanced at their textbooks out of curiosity, and it was like a mix of general maths and bs. So when I say psychology, the stuff I like is like what Teal teaches, about understanding how people often think, because as a writer I had been interested in that stuff all along, with creating different characters in my head to explore different perspectives. Maybe it started as a self-defense thing, if I could predict people's actions I could keep myself safe, or maybe it was a genuinely spiritually curious thing or both. I think mainstream psychology is pretty shit, seeing as most of the therapists I met didn't actually help me much and all psychiatrists are just drug dealers, many of them experimenting on their patients. I am not kidding. I say 99% because one I did meet cared a bit more about a more holistic approach and that was surprisingly in the public system not private.
The psychologists did help my relationship with my family though, which is actually important when someone is suffering from mental illness. Teal says it is a huge component because a lot of mental health problems can be traced back to or made worse by dysfunctional family dynamics and many like to blame the kid, the black sheep in the family as the scapegoat instead of working on how they have contributed to the issues. I love my family but my childhood emotional environment did damage me and it took many years for my relationship with my family to heal to the point where it is now. I also know they didn't mean to harm me, people don't know what they don't know at the time.
Some people like to blame everything on the physical, like the emotional and mental and spiritual aspects do not exist. In truth, all are factors in illnesses. If someone is physically or mentally ill, you want a more holistic approach unlike the conventional treatments that generally do not work and create more issues. Sometimes it might be a physical illness needs a more physical solution like diet change, yes but if everything is energy and such, then there is still some non-physical factors involved. For example, why was I and not everyone in my class who was vaccinated, triggered to have arthritis as a teenager? Most autoimmune disorders have an emotional element of shame, something I struggled with deeply from at least 11 years old because of my emotional environment both at home and school. As a child I felt deeply rejected. Emotions were not allowed in my family pretty much at all, especially anger or feeling like something wasn't fair. If you are rejecting how you feel, you are rejecting your truth, yourself.
The person mentally, even subconsciously, attacks themselves to keep themselves what is considered "good" or acceptable in the family dynamic, and if the person really rejects parts of themselves enough it can manifest physically as autoimmune disease. By changing my diet to be more in alignment with my true morals, I started accepting and approving parts of me I had previously denied and rejected. Physically I was no longer eating the toxic foods that were triggering my symptoms. I still had to do a couple detoxes to get rid of the toxins from the vaccine completely.
It hurts when people think mental illness is something easy to fix. Like if just changing your diet could do that. Some people do, but it's more a lifestyle change in my opinion, with their mindset as well, not just what they eat. It's also like saying well just treating a physical illness with your mind will work too, when most people know that's not how it works. Like emotions and thoughts are not a huge part of mental health. There have been times when I have made improvements with the OCD and it was by working on my thoughts so I could think differently and find different thoughts I could believe about reality that aren't so stressing. I do think eating better helps and I have generally always stayed away from artificial things and sugar for a long time. I stopped drinking soft drinks and was staying away from fluoride and SLS etc since before I was vegetarian. I never drank alcohol (aside from one sip of wine around age 10 and I didn't like it), never did drugs. I know sugar and those chemicals affect the brain and some kids are mislabelled ADD/ADHD and stuff because of the junk lollies and cereals and stuff given to them instead of real food. But I think it is naive to just put people with serious mental illnesses on a better diet and not address the mental and emotional roots of their condition.
How am I supposed to heal my mind if I do not understand it and why it is hurting?
Many school shootings in the USA are staged or controlled events by the government there but for those that are real, this article provides some necessary insight into the mentality. A lot of people don't want to understand the cause because it means looking at themselves differently and for some taking responsibility. I was actually talking with a man last month who wrote in his book there were times he felt he could do something like that. He had suffered a lot and still had some serious issues in relationships with other people. https://tealswan.com/resources/articles/school-shooters-understanding-school-shooters-and-what-to-do-to-prevent-school-shootings-r291/
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