Your emotions are making me ill
Well Well Well, even “experts” get it right once in while.
Don’t Follow US in Treating ‘Emotions as Illness’-Expert
SYDNEY—Australians are being urged to not follow the “American trend” of branding “emotions an illness” and then being coaxed into expensive therapies to rectify them.
Associate Professor John Pead, from the Melbourne-based Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, said this approach could distract people from making the lifestyle changes required to be genuinely happy.
He spoke to AAP after giving a presentation at an occupational health conference, at which he also told attendees how the mental health ramifications of major traumatic events - such as Victoria’s bushfires - were often over-estimated.
“About 80 per cent of people who experience life threatening trauma get better on their own, without medication or any other intervention,” Dr Pead told attendees at the 4th Annual Occupational Health and Wellbeing Conference in Sydney.
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“It’s an American trend to label your emotions an illness and then hire an expert to fix it for you … getting into dependent commercial relationships with those experts where you see them once a week.”
Dr Pead said people who needed counselling should aim to use it on an “as needs basis” and not routinely, as the key to effective treatment was that it be limited.
I suggest the following treatment, courtesy of The Eagles. No seriously, don’t pay me. It’s free!
Tags: Get Over it, Therapeutic state
