Prof. A's Psych

Mental Health check up is just as important as the visit to the doctor. Do not deprive yourself of a mental illness that may be going on in your life.

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I am a certified Mental Health First Aid Trainer, and I am spreading the word. If you would like to invite me to speak, please go to the website and at the bottom respond. Thank you and have a blessed day.

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Well as school's have already began or are beginning, we face another year of homework, projects, band practices, all sports practices and games, and the list goes on and on and on. At the end of the day we find ourselves overtired, overexerted, wishing we had not agreed to do so much. We rush into a drive-thru to get a burger, then it is on to the next event. We wake up Saturday morning realizing we had not seen the dinner table all week.

The dinner table has so much significance to many families. It is where you share your day, laugh, talk, get to know your kids, your kids get to know their parents. All I ask, is that at least 2-3 times a week we sit down at our table, give thanks for what we have, talk with our kids, talk with our spouse, laugh, have fun and enjoy a great meal even if it is from a drive-thru.

I see that our followers have increased and I am very happy with that. However, it is not so much the increase as it is you understanding what I am presenting about psychology and life events that are actually happening around us, which is Observational Psychology.

We all observe different events around us each and everyday, but do we take a moment to truly observe or are we just looking as we pass by?

Slow down, observe, wonder, come up with a short story, all these things will help you see the world in a different view. I did not realize this until I truly understood my son Matthew who has Aspergers. He observes events (the world, his surroundings) in such a different way. Thank you Matthew for teaching me how to observe, even though I may still miss the point.

This year, 2018, so far has been a tough year at some points. I think one of the toughest is coming to the realization that I turned 50 years old this month (June). That half of a century (100). I know my Soldiers always said I was old, but WOW, I really see it now.

For me and a lot of people, getting older seems like the end is near. We seem to go through the steps: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, depression, and then acceptance. Anyway we look at it and/or come to understand it, that we are getting older. That is why I call Developmental Psychology = Conception to death.

When dealing with conception happens we are usually excited and cheerful, want to share with all. Then when death comes it seems we become sad and angry. Who are you angry at? Sadness I can see, but angry? I don't understand that. We should be the way we where when we first heard about the conception, happy, cheerful. Yes, we are always going to be sad, but celebrate the good times of their life. Celebrate that they are never going to hurt psychically, emotionally, and possibly look at you and wonder who are you again.

It sounds mean, it sounds like you may not care of the death, but when in truth, you are caring, that person will no longer suffer and those who may have been tired and weary from taking care of them can now rest themselves.

Why do you think God took off the seventh day... to rest... so why don't we?

Well folks it has been too long since I was on here last. So many things going on in our lives, our mind, our bodies, our cities/states/country that we get caught up in it all sometimes. Most of the time we need to slow down, take that deep breath, lay in the lawn chair (outside - when it is nice), smell the rain, if you are lucky enough to get some.

I am taking this time to talk about Developmental Psychology and how when we turn certain ages we may feel we have met or accomplished mile stones in our lives. I turned 50 this month, half of a century, five decades and way to many months, weeks, days, and hours to count.

I say that because as I look back on my 50 years of life, I spent 20 years in school from grade school to higher education, not to mention the number of military schools I have attended. I spent 27 years working for one company (U.S. Army), 24 years in marriage (not all to same woman), a total of 104 years of parenting, and I could go on and on. My point is that in the last chapter of our Developmental Psychology book is "Death, Dying, and Grieving." I have the students write and read their own "Obituary" and most freak out.

I tell them this is not a morbid paper, this is a paper of what you have accomplished from birth to the age you are now. Most of them it is just completing high school and going to college.

But our brain is programed by so much death around us that this would seem to be morbid. However, when you turn it around, it is a celebration, a Positive Psychological outlook on your own life. Most everyone loves to celebrate something, so why not train your mind, re-wire your brain to think Positive about Negative stuff.

Ok, I this is what happens when I don't get on here for a long period of time. I get to rambling and have so much I want to say.

I challenge you this week, each day write down one thing - just one thing that you have accomplished in your life. It could be from childhood, teenage years, or even that day. Do not repeat the accomplishments, at the end of the week go back and look at those 7 accomplishments and briefly think about them. I bet a smile, even a small smile will come across your face and you will feel Positive about yourself.

As the eve of Christmas Eve gets close to becoming Christmas Day, we (you) have more to be thankful for than you may realize. Most who suffer from physical and mental illnesses may feel they have nothing. They may have no one to share this day or the next day with. See, we (you) are breathing and have life to live for. No matter where you are at in life you can change yourself and become who you want. You just have to believe and continue to press forward no matter how hard it is. You may feel no one is here to help or care for you. You do!! I care!! If you need to have someone to talk to, please IM me or text me and we will talk. You are important to yourself and to society. Because your story can help someone else.

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