09/04/2024
I Am a Psychiatrist!!
Those may seem like simple words to spit out onto a post, but not so.
I have always added a "but" or in a more evolved way an "and", when introducing myself, because well, I wanted to separate myself out from who I really am. A doctor entirely focussed on healing my clients, not containing their condition or slowing down its inevitable downward progression.
I do practice using my own style, and all of us practice our lives in our own styles; there is nothing exciting there.
I have been a psychiatrist for over 35 years and a child care worker for over 9 years before that. (Truth)
There I learned what I now see as the essence of psychiatry, and I was propelled to become a psychiatrist as a result of my experiences and the impact that I could make, as a communicator committed to robust connection, creativity and true and honest curative healing.
In my years, I learned that diagnoses are rather arbitrary most of the time and that people seek to be confirmed that there is something wrong with them, and the job of a psychiatrist is often to confirm that, and then usually to write a prescription.
If there was nothing wrong with you when you started these medications, oftentimes there is after you begin as you take on the diagnosis and take meds that are aimed at imbalancing your chemicals (hopefully to compensate for something out of balance in your nature, that actually does not exist).
(For those of you who are big fans of your diagnoses and medications, please continue using these aspects of your life as you see fit, as I know that it leaves some people very satisfied to learn that they have a deficiency, deficit, syndrome, illness, disease, affliction, traits, or a condition that qualifies them for an explanation for why their world is not working as well as they would like, and if that is you, and you have found something you would not ever change, please don't stop and congratulations!).
So, that is not the only route to take at all.
What if there is really nothing wrong with you?
What if feeling like there is something wrong with you is a state pervasive in the human condition and, therefore, a sign that you are actually normal (as if there is a definition of this, after all)?
Before you reach for the phone to confirm that there is something deeply wrong with you, I would love to have a conversation with you.
It is possible that there is nothing wrong or sick about you in the first place (but maybe there is, you might say), and I can help you see, using my connection skills, and inquiry based conversation, whether you are damaged goods (doubt this thoroughly), or whether you can actually heal before you enter the industry that is often geared towards perpetuating the condition it is marketed to treat.
I am a psychiatrist. That's what we do. I truly heal people who are convinced that they are saddled with mental illness.
You will probably learn a lot about yourself, and by the way, you will leave the conversation without any diagnosis or medication plan. You do have a diagnosis though. Say this out loud:
My diagnosis is {Insert full name here}. That's it! Uniquely you.
There may be nothing wrong with you (or even them!). Wouldn't that be great to learn?
As Krishnamurti implies:
"It is not a sign of mental health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society".
Before you get your self examined by the psychiatrist, and maybe even after you "tried" talk therapy, I am here to learn more, and to open doors you did not even know existed.
"The mass of men go through lives in quiet desperation and then go to their graves with their song still in them."- tragic quote from HD Thoreau
Let's look together. It will take courage and it will take honesty. I am here to help you find that and learn what is really so about that discomfort you are exoeriencing.
My name is Doctor Fred Moss, MD. I am a psychiatrist!!!
Ah, that feels good, cuz that is what's so.
Thank you for reading this post. I appreciate you completely.
DM me or visit www.welcometohumanity.net or www.drfred360.com
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