My Shrink is a Flake

ultimate_krang wrote:

Jer wrote:Yeah... I've watched that thing, and personally I'd be suspicious of anyone who tried to push it on me. The Secret implies that to get things you want/need, you just have to think about them all the time, make collages, write about them, etc. Usually I find the best way to get things I want is to actually go out and get them.

If you're not comfortable with her methods, I think you should find someone else.

i was reading something the other day that was talking about visualization and if your thinking about something theres more chance of it happening...something about your brain wanting things to stay consistant. sounds to be on the same lines as this... anyway it could be true, the only thing ive been sucessful at is my art and im always thinking about that

Hey, Ult! What the hell is this avatar?

Appart of this, in relation to what you have said, from my point of view it has sense. Visualization is a technic that can works but you need lot os practise. At least, it allowes you to focuss on your aims.
I hope you tell us more about this.

Moldy Brains wrote:She wants me to watch The Secret.

Here's a funny article: http://www.slate.com/id/2165746/

Zahra wrote:

ultimate_krang wrote:

Jer wrote:Yeah... I've watched that thing, and personally I'd be suspicious of anyone who tried to push it on me. The Secret implies that to get things you want/need, you just have to think about them all the time, make collages, write about them, etc. Usually I find the best way to get things I want is to actually go out and get them.

If you're not comfortable with her methods, I think you should find someone else.

i was reading something the other day that was talking about visualization and if your thinking about something theres more chance of it happening...something about your brain wanting things to stay consistant. sounds to be on the same lines as this... anyway it could be true, the only thing ive been sucessful at is my art and im always thinking about that

Hey, Ult! What the hell is this avatar?

Appart of this, in relation to what you have said, from my point of view it has sense. Visualization is a technic that can works but you need lot os practise. At least, it allowes you to focuss on your aims.
I hope you tell us more about this.

my avatars just a photo of me

So when you put me as an example, "drinking ten beers in a row", you weren´t just put me an example! Ummmm Cheers!

So when you put me as an example, "drinking ten beers in a row", you weren´t just put me an example! Ummmm Cheers!

hahaha! actually thats not me, i could never be that cool..

swift. wrote:by seeing a shrink, all you're doing is distracting yourself from the inevitable and invariable truth that only you have the power to change your self

true. esp for an avpd.

Never seen "The Secret", but from what i've heard of it i think it uses proper and sound principles to make $$. Dont be hasty to dismiss those principles because of the way they're being used.

I too think that only ourselves have the power to change ourselves, and that the best way to get things is to go out and get them and those things dont contradict what your shrink is proposing to you.

I believe that a shrink's job is not to cure you, but more like to show you a way to cure yourself.

ultimate_krang wrote:hahaha! actually thats not me, i could never be that cool..

Ult! to the topic.
What about this visualizacion exercises? I heard that there are people that with a continuos visualization of these things she/he wants, they get that´s what they are visualizing once and again.
It sounds to me as a kind of magic! It doesn´t make sense.

Can you explain a bit more about it?


I´m happy for you. ten beers in a row is a stupid things to do.

Since I was 24 years old up to now 37, I have visited many kind of psychiatrists and phychologists. And I can say to you two simple keys I have learnt:

1) It´s necessary a relation based on confidence between you and them.

2) You have to want, even desire to put many effort for your recovery. Let´s see that you have to put a 70% in a therapy.

In the case one of this two pointss fails, I advise you to change your shrink.
They haven´t got a magic wand. They are proffessional and they have study to cope with all this stuff but they are human. Each one put they knowledge and effort to help you but...sometimes things don´t work as we want.
I´d like to have a magic wand with my pupils. To arrage all their problems and that they would learn and get their dreams reality. But it´s impossible.
I wish all luck of this world, in heart.