What has been the best therapy modality or style that has helped you with psychological issues
I'd like to hear about people's most successful approaches or styles (even if unconventional), that helped them to overcome or at least get their various struggles under control.
So for example, Sinclair Method (naltrexone) [baclofen adjuvant] --> problem drinking.
Getting away from the abuser/prejudice,
and since it is normal-culture, itself, whose prejudice is my fundamental abuser,
then getting away from everybody, for years, gave me the means to continue living.
That, combined with Frawley's ayurvedic appropriate-to-one's-metabolism ingredients food, which massively helped my health,
& William J. Walsh's "Nutrient Power" book, which really oughta be corrected, a bit...
I replicated both is undermethylated-DNA-disorder treatment and his pyrrol-disorder treatment, each 4 times, and at-least 2 different ways.
Undermethylated-DNA-disorder: enteric-coated SAM-e, 40mins before breakfast, with clear water ( or tea, but NO carbs/food ) worked in 3 months, and Methionine worked in 4 months. The only times in my life I've ever experienced ZERO stress, which was awesome. Takes-away my academic-drive, though, so I only would use Methionine now to "take the edge off", if the stress of undermethylation-distortion were gimping me or my life.
Pyrrol-disorder ( amygdala-hijack always pressuring, and ambushing/breaking one into PTSD-RAGE, with any "straw that broke the camel's back" ), was treated best with the mixture of Zinc Gluconate, Zinc Picolinate, Arachidonic-acid-precursor Evening Primrose Oil ( 2 big capsules / day ), and P5P form of one of the Vitamin B's.
This gave me the ONLY experience I've ever had, in my life, of not-fighting-the-pressure-of-pending-amygdala-hijack-every-second, and it left me .. HAPPY. Never experienced anything like that, before...
Why'd I quit it? I'm a Vajrayana, & meditation must be my primary-weapon of self-conquering, not pills, AND taking Zinc every 6 hours was a brutal regime, and it was razor's-edge chemical-balance to maintain. Walsh is right that people with pyrrol-disorder ( which wrongly eradicates zinc from our bodies, leaving too-little for normal management of copper, or for methylation-of-DNA for that matter ) require dangerous ( to others! ) levels of metals-intake to reach correct-balancing between copper & zinc. I was taking enough to probably kill any non-pyrrol-disorder person: 4x the Tolerable Upper Limit. It worked, though, exactly as Walsh indicated.
So:
Solitude, & systematically healing food, & the corrections for 2 epigenetic-disorders that Western Medicine won't allow are real ( because it'd GUT authority-based psychiatry if the evidence were admitted ), that demonstrated exactly what actually is wrong, and gave me leverage in owning my life, more completely.
EVIDENCE-based knowing.
.: Scientific Method is itself one of the therapies I broke the gaslighting of doctors ( and medical-professional parents ) with, and so must be considered a valid therapy, too.
Kaizen, aka relentless evolving, as one's personal Religion.
( my cosmology is Vajrayana, simply because Universe's-speech, aka Evidence, broke the worldviews I was brought-up in.
Ramakrishna Vivekananda too contempted the prejudice masquerading as "science", that I call Scientism, which presumes materialism, and therefore presumes that Awareness/Knowing/Meaning/Will can't be real, but that is prejudice: all those are testable and objectively-real.
Some have even tested entanglement in the macro-scale by experiment:
the experiment of having dog-owners set a video recorder in their home, with timestamping on, and they mark down when they decide to leave for home, at work, and the video records if the dog(s) light-up right then .. obviously, it doesn't matter how many such pairs don't demonstrate such entanglement: if even 1 pair is so good at demonstrating it, then that falsifies the dogma that "That Can't Happen" and "That Isn't Possible".
the experiment of having women in some quiet context, and a wired camera that can see them is connected to a switcher, and one, or another, person is watching a monitor, and sometimes that monitor is showing the woman... can she identify when someone is watching her?? IF yes, THEN that, too, falsifies the materialist Scientism/prejudice "That Can't Happen" and "That Isn't Possible".
Since I've experienced enough evidence to know when authority-based-"science" is gaslighting me,
and since even physicist Weinberg commented on the fact that 100 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE contradiction between evidence & established-theory, re the measured Cosmological Constant, vs The Standard Model of Cosmology
Scientism is unfalsifiable, Science holds that ONE "Black Swan", that really exists, FALSIFIES "All Swans Are White", no matter how Scientism keeps conveniently-measuring only white swans, as a means of "proving" that only white swans exist...
Karl Popper would have called-out that NON-falsifiable dogma ISN'T AND NEVER WAS Science, as would have Carl Sagan...
Evidence convinced me of what I hold to be true, and I'm continuing on that path, until I die, in the hopes of breaking my Soul/CellOfGod/ChildOfGod/Atman from getting perpetually-recycled in Universe.
IF you prefer authority-based-medicine, and have the gall to ignore the evidence even called-out in one of John Brockman's books, probably "This Idea Must Die" ( that "evidence based medicine" which provably ISN'T evidence-based, it is authority-based ), then contempt me, categorically, as defective, in your religion.
Addiction-to-integrity & addiction-to-Universe's-actual-bizarre-unfolding/opening both are good addictions, to me.
You have your assumption-river/religion, fundamentalist-materialists have theirs, I have mine.
Eternity is going to continue reprpocessing/recycling ALL energies contained within Universe, and I want out, pronto.
Remain within, if that makes you feel great.
That is what evolution means, within a continuum/soul, obviously: your soul sows, through you, your soul reaps, through future "lives"/incarnations. How could it work properly if you just don't mean anything? MEAN what you mean: self-honesty, no matter how contempted by the currently-fashionable prejudice, is healing!
: )
Born autistic, lost 10% of my brain between about 10-16, then, in the last 14y or so ( I'm gaining on 60yo ), a thousand-ish concussions, trying to break my will-to-live with a cudgel, so I could murder my life, but eventually learned that will-to-live is stronger, in this brain, than I am, so I'm stuck living, and therefore am stuck living with the consequences of all-3 waves of brain-injury.
It takes years to grow-in new/replacement brain, but the meditations do speed the process.
( Western minds may find convincing in a book named "Super Genes" by geneticist Tanzi & co-author Chopra,
and it cites the science backing its arguments for malleable/earnable healing )
Yeah, there was a lot to unpack and I definitely had a bunch of eyebrow raising moments. But if it works for our Lemmy pal up above, I'm not going to shake that tree.
I read things like this (or try to) and I think, just let him be. The most powerful thing that can help someone is what they think works for them. There's no need to tear it down if it's not harmful to others.
If someone stumbles across something like this and is influenced by it, I think odds are extremely great that they were already of a similar mindset. If it preached violence or bigotry or anytime I'd see more of an issue.
Science: the ruthlessly-objective, systematic, progressive annihilation of both direct & indirect ignorance, no matter what that does to one's worldview.
THE keystone book in understanding this, is Douglas Hofstadter's brilliant "Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", which hammers that if one remains within a self-consistent formal-system-of-knowing, then it ISN'T POSSIBLE for one to be knowing Universe-complete, and that is mathematical fact.
Journalism, real journalism, is the essence of science, just without the hard-rigor.
Anybody who isn't competent in understanding what Hofstadter's book means, isn't competent in philosophy.
"God: The Failed Hypothesis", by Victor Stenger, iirc, was the book that made me see what the fundamentalist materialists were saying.
Unreadable gaslighting, materialist dogma is.
The whole "The Hard Problem" of Consciousness is produced by the definition of "real" to be identical-with "matter".
Artifact-of-the-view.
aka prejudice.
You deem it delusion that the Soul-memories of some of its other-lives/incarnations nuked my Catholic upbringing?
lol
I changed my worldview as a direct result of evidence, and that took years, because the smashing-of-assumptions was sooo profound...
... and you are gloriously certain that it is only my delusion, because it is axiomatic that That Cannot Validly Be,
and you deem me incompetent in Science?
That is funny.
I've proven unable to put my proper, revised, with systematic links to things, including a scientific paper proving that Western Medicine has been gaslighting an entire category of patients, up, and I've downvoted my comment that you replied-to, to make it no-longer-significant on this discussion,
but I'm leaving it up, so that all the denigration can be visible, and everybody, for all time, can laugh at the "defective" that I am, who wrote a spur-of-the-moment 1000-word comment, and didn't get it hammered-out perfectly-clearly.
Feel free to denigrate my replacement comment, which had to be posted in 2 parts, because of some kind of character-limit, possibly at 10k chars.
Wishing you well, but your contempt for my understanding is insulting, and your presumption that knowing-of-previous-lives-of-one's-continuum is delusion axiomatically, is also insulting.
Awareness is simultaneously immaterial AND real.
All "science" which ignores/denies that, isn't science, it is ideological-addiction/prejudice, and gaslighting.
At population-scale, so long as you don't have either a population primed with materialist prejudice, or with anti-subtle-awareness-habits like eating pork or eggs, it is entirely possible to test whether reincarnation is real,
and there are multiple books on the scientific testing of such, as with documenting a child's remembering of some previous-life, and then going to that part of the world & doing the history-research to discover that what that kid said, was true.
Don't do the research, if it'd violate your assumption-river/religion, though, obviously: devout materialism is comforting for you, then remain in it, if you want, and glory in the amassed Authority which contempts my empiricism & objectivity.
"The Boy Who Knew Too Much", is, iirc, 1 of the available options, though there is another book which is, apparently, a huge & dry scientific work, yellowish cover, iirc.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, but I hope we never meet:
The intersection of Empiricist-Objectivity & Kaizen is the ONLY TRUE assumption-river/religion, in my eyes, and whatever cosmology works most-completely, not most-self-consistently, but most-completely, is what I need to hold to,
...and that you have already deemed axiomatically to be only delusion.