By Richard O'Connor
"A very important and necessary advisor for those that are suffering from melancholy, as shut as a e-book can come to the healing results of psychotherapy and medication."
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It affects our whole being. Imagine if our medical knowledge was such that we could reliably diagnose heart disease but knew nothing about the effects of exercise, cholesterol, salt and fat, stress, and fatigue. Patients who were diagnosed would be grasping at all kinds of straws that might help them recover. Some would stop all exercise, some would exercise furiously. Some would withdraw from stressful situations. Some would take medication to reduce blood pressure without knowing that their unhealthy diet undoes any beneficial effect of medication.
We think of ourselves as unable to live up to our own standards, we see the world as hostile or withholding, and we are pessimistic about things ever changing. In our relationships with others, we have unrealistic expectations, are unable to communicate our own needs, misinterpret disagreement as rejection, and are anxious and unassertive in our presentation. Finally, we are in the dark about human emotions. We don’t know what it’s like to feel normal. We fear that honest feelings will tear us apart or cause others to reject us.
Unfortunately, the patient is caught in the middle. The family doctor, supported by the pharmaceutical industry, is likely to say, “Take this pill” — but when it doesn’t work, the patient just has another in a long line of failures to add to his baggage. The mental health professional is likely to say, “Let’s talk about it” — and the patient is likely to feel patronized, misunderstood, because how can simply talking lift such terrible pain? It’s not an either-or question. Both ways of thinking are true.