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Written by Lane Gormley, EdS, LPC, BCC
Rock
A lot of you are probably too young to remember Robert Palmer’s 1986 mega-hit about the effects that passionate love has on human beings. Entitled Addicted to Love, it contains this description of the person who is passionately in love:
Written by Lane Gormley, EdS, LPC, BCC
Myths of Creativity: Art History, English Lit, Introduction to Classical Dance, and Music Appreciation
In many academic courses – especially those taught in this country and in this century – the professors would have us believe that painters paint in order to entertain and instruct us, to document a time and place, to distinguish themselves, or (best case scenario) to sell their paintings for $250 million, which was the going price for Paul Cézanne”s The Card Players in 2011. Similarly, teachers and critics of literature appear preoccupied with anecdote, form, technique, and other externals. Music and dance theorists invariably praise composers, performers, and choreographers for the “beauty”, “interest”, or “relevancy” of their efforts.
Written by Lane Gormley, EdS, LPC, BCCO
Extreme Mental and Emotional Symptoms
Depression, mood instability, compulsions, constant anxiety, and other mental and emotional symptoms are horribly uncomfortable. Swirling, spiraling, interconnected, intrusive, obsessive thoughts of sadness, anger, fear, and even impending death and disaster can make life seem hopeless and not worth living.
Written by Lane Gormley, EdS, LPC, BCC
Why We Work
Most people work – at least in part – to earn a living. They need to support their lifestyles and their families. Some people chose their work on the basis of salary alone, and that, while understandable in today’s uncertain financial climate, can be stressful in and of itself. Other people work in order to lend structure, interest, and meaning to their lives as well as to make money. Some people derive great ego satisfaction and a sense of identity from their work.
Written by Lane Gormley, EdS, LPC, BCC, NGHC
Anxiety
Clara grew up in a wealthy but unhappy family. Each afternoon, when her father’s large, black car pulled up in the driveway, she and her sister ran to their rooms and did not come out until dinner. A successful and driven corporate executive, Mr. Eddins brought his high stress level, his frustrations, and his anger home with him every evening. He was verbally abusive to his wife and daughters. His wife was never satisfied with herself or the young girls. During dinner, Mr. Eddins did not allow anyone to speak. The tension in the house was constant and unbearable.
Written by Lane Gormley, EdS, LPC, BCC, NGHC
Hearing Voices
As he remembers it, Edmund first began to hear “the Voices” after taking what are popularly known as “club drugs” at a party in a “cool” neighborhood in Atlanta’s inner city. He knows that he took Ecstasy (“X”), and he thinks that he may have used LSD as well. It was not Ed’s first experience with illegal drugs, and it was not his last. That party and its aftermath marked the beginning, for Edmund, of an Alternate Reality that some psychiatrists call “psychosis”.