Page 24 - Boca ViewPointe - August '19

Page 24, Viewpointe August 2019
This Is Fact NOT Fiction

By Sheila M Cooperman, It is not just about killing the ants, it is more important With this said the traits required to becoming a good
LMHC, Licensed to figure out just how they are coming in. psychologist or professional in psychology entails an
Psychotherapist Yet, this is not how mental health is handled in our individual who is an abstract thinker, not detailed.
society. Feeling badly, no one tries to figure out what is Since this is not the same for an MD, it is not
The entire subject of going on and how you arrived at this condition. surprising, that they cannot process anything with
mental health seems to Nope, you are just suggested by someone or many you. Instead, they are very good at pulling out their
boggle the mind for so people to go to a psychiatrist. In your mind, maybe you prescription pad and writing down the name of the most
many. They are fine, until are thinking this will give you an opportunity to discuss trending anti-depressant.
they are not fine. This something with this psychiatrist. The reality is most people will just accept this, and
transition may begin from You should know that unless the psychiatrist chose think the doctor has their best interest at heart. Okay, that
childhood or adolescence psychology as an elective, they have absolutely no classes is subject for another article.
or even later. like that in their required curriculum. In addition, being Since you do not think or have heard there are any
It seems never to be questioned, “why” these mental a doctor is all about detail. This is contrary to those other options, you decide to fill the prescription and begin
health symptoms have now presented. The main focus is individuals that join the psychology profession, where taking this medication. And again, you still have no idea
usually just to make them go away. it is all about the abstract. how long you will have to take it, since you have no idea
But, tell me is this how you would treat a leak in your The reality is 99% of people are either abstract or how you got here in the first place.
home? You enter your house and discover there is water detailed thinkers. Maybe 1% of society has a brain that
all over the floor. Sure, you wipe it up, and go on with can be both. It is very rare. This Is Fact NOT Fiction on page 25
your life. A few hours later, you notice there is water on
the floor and you wipe it up again.
For 99% of the people in our society, it does not end
there. That becomes only the beginning, because we need
to find out where the water is coming from. We also know
that every time water is on our floor, it can be getting
worse. We begin our discovery and investigation, just
“why” there is water, and what is “actually happening.”
Yet, most when it comes to their mental health
functioning only begin to seek help when things become
really bad. It appears they seem to care more about their
floors than themselves.
Do you wait until there is so much water on the floor
before you begin to investigate “what is causing it?”
Nope, you begin immediately.
Yet, most will wait until they are experiencing severe
mental health issues, before they seek help.
This has been the infrastructure of my counseling
practice and all the places I have worked. It is unfortunate,
that people do not recognize symptoms will most likely
become more severe instead of better.
The question is “why” do we have so many people
with mental health symptoms these days. That is a topic
for another article.
Let’s face it; there have always been stresses, and life
issues that created struggles. For decades there have been
difficulties, but we have not had this type of mental health
epidemic. Some of these events have led to shootings,
and people dying.
Unlike many, I am extremely analytic and need to
find the cause. I am that individual that when I see a
few ants walking on my counter, I recognize these are
the scouts. They are checking to see if the coast is clear
before 100-1,000’s of his little friends and family make
an appearance.
So instead of wiping him out, I sit and watch them
until I can figure out where and how they are entering
my home. Because let’s face it, their whole existence is
trying to get into our homes, and our job is trying to keep
them out.
My point is we don’t just wipe them out, we try to
uncover why and how they first crawled in. LIST YOUR %
This is the same, well it should be when it comes to 1
mental health. It is not just about wiping the water off HOME FOR
the floor. It is more important in the long term to figure
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