Is recovery from addiction, anxiety, depression, or from other mental health difficulties even possible for me? What ACTUALLY happens in a therapy session or 12 Step Meeting? Will talking about my problem really help? Finding Help is a podcast where the helpers and the helped share their wisdom and experience about the many different paths from isolation, loneliness, and despair to connection, community, and hope. Host Matt Shedd formerly worked at the Peabody Awards and in public radio before becoming a mental health writer and podcaster. More at https://mattshedd.com
Finding Help: Therapy, Recovery, & Community
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Is recovery from addiction, anxiety, depression, or from other mental health difficulties even possible for me? What ACTUALLY happens in a therapy session or 12 Step Meeting? Will talking about my problem really help? Finding Help is a podcast where the helpers and the helped share their wisdom and experience about the many different paths from isolation, loneliness, and despair to connection, community, and hope. Host Matt Shedd formerly worked at the Peabody Awards and in public radio before becoming a mental health writer and podcaster. More at https://mattshedd.com
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September 22, 2021
Escaping Internet Addiction: Pornography, Shopping, Social Media, and Gaming Addictions with Zulaikha Straight, MA, LPC
<p>Internet addiction is a condition that we are just starting to recognize and grapple with collectively as a culture. It’s also something that the therapy community is also starting to take seriously and address with clients. And I think if we are honest, most of us can likely identify some form of internet addiction in our own lives, be it mild or severe. Zulaikha Straight, MA, LPC, is a trauma therapist and certified addiction coach specializing in internet addiction. We talk about how this addiction can take on many different forms, including shopping, pornography, social media, and gaming addiction, to name a few. We also discuss how the underlying issues driving the addiction need to be addressed for there to be any long term healing or recovery and the ways that help are available.</p> <p>0:00 Introduction</p> <p>2:40 Why Zulaikha started treating internet addiction</p> <p>5:15 What does internet addiction look like?</p> <p>7:25 Pornography addiction - the most dangerous form of internet addiction</p> <p>13:30 Shopping addiction - the dopamine rush from hitting the purchase button</p> <p>18:20 The consequences of a culture addicted to the internet and the documentary “The Social Dilemma”</p> <p>26:40 Social media addiction - the underlying need is to be validated and accepted; splitting our identities between public, private, and social personas;</p> <p>32:50 Possibility of change; looking at the trauma underlying internet addiction; different trauma treatments</p> <p>40:00 Gaming addiction - the only form of internet addiction confirmed at this point by the DSM and psychiatric world</p> <p>48:13 What Zulaikha would pass on to people who are listening</p> <p>Zulaikha's website: https://<a href="http://integrativega.com/">integrativeGA.com</a></p> <p>Facebook: https://<a href="http://facebook.com/integrativeGA">facebook.com/integrativeGA</a></p> <p>Instagram: https://<a href="https://www.instagram.com/integrativega/">instagram.com/integrativega/</a></p> <p>LinkedIn: https://<a href="http://linkedin.com/company/integrative-counseling-ga/">linkedin.com/company/integrative-counseling-ga/</a></p> <p>Twitter: https://<a href="http://twitter.com/integrativeGA">twitter.com/integrativeGA</a></p>
August 27, 2021
Amphetamine Psychosis, Spiritual Awakening, Total Acceptance | Adam Abramowitz
<p>A lot of times there’s a thin line between a mental breakdown and a spiritual experience. Adam has had his fair share of both. He shares them here and it’s quite a ride.</p> <p>Things kicked up a notch when he was a NCAA Division 1 football player managing a worsening drug problem. In a televised ESPN game, he had a psychotic break. Spiritual experiences, continued drug use, 12 Step Recovery, and total acceptance eventually follow.</p> <p>1:35 Amphetamine induced psychotic break during a D1 NCAA football game</p> <p>5:05 Continued psychosis for 4 months</p> <p>7:20 Psychosis ends then “things get weird”</p> <p>9:08 An overwhelming spiritual experience; “losing total sense of time and space”</p> <p>13:05 “the thin line between a mental breakdown and a spiritual experience”</p> <p>15:35 Beginning to use black tar heroin</p> <p>17:35 Instant relapse, going to the bluffs to score drugs</p> <p>21:35 Why he stopped relapsing - the 12 Steps</p> <p>23:05 Difficulty of what families experience</p> <p>26:05 Lao Tzu and Taoism; peace, contentment, and creativity in recovery</p> <p>28:00 A few second of contemplation</p> <p>30:20 Being back on heroin, living in Tulsa with his mom, losing his girlfriend</p> <p>32:35 Waking up dopesick, using heroin and cocaine</p> <p>34:35 Getting back into recovery</p> <p>37:35 Being deeply ashamed of who he was; out of dope, out of money, out of gas</p> <p>39:05 Looking at a gun and contemplating suicide</p> <p>41:35 Revisiting spirituality in recovery: Taoism, Zen, Bruce Lee, Alan Watts</p> <p>46:05 Shared Space, building a recovery-focused social media software</p> <p>47:35 Pema Chodron, “Comfortable with Uncertainty”</p> <p>50:05 Taking the 3rd Step</p> <p>52:35 Working in the treatment field, Life as play rather than work</p> <p>57:25 What Adam would pass on to people listening</p> <p>For more information, visit https://mattshedd.com</p>
August 5, 2021
Mythology, Spirituality, & Therapy: Transforming Suffering into Poetry with Mitchell Smolkin, MACP, RP
<p>A Jungian psychotherapist who approaches the most seemingly ordinary human experience with the curiosity and reverence of a philosopher and a poet, Mitchell Smolkin, MACP, RP, is a profoundly interesting conversation partner. We work through some big questions in this episode. Specifically, we discuss how therapy can intersect with spirituality in moments of great suffering to be a profound meaning-making tool in our lives.</p> <p>How do we find dignity in suffering? [1:30]</p> <ul> <li>Accepting suffering and resisting violence to the individual;</li> <li>Carl Jung’s influence and his “appetite for mythology” as a tool for making meaning;</li> <li>12 Step Recovery as a framework.</li> </ul> <p>How can we use art and religious narratives to make meaning? [8:45]</p> <ul> <li>The Art of Marc Chagall;</li> <li>Religious narratives as a tool for making sense out of daily life;</li> <li>Video games as mythological frameworks.</li> </ul> <p>Why is it so difficult to talk about spiritual and religious identity? [13:30]</p> <ul> <li>Complexities of religious identities;</li> <li>Jewish rituals of collective mourning after the crusades;</li> <li>Spiritual practice as a collective connection rather than the modern idea of self-development.</li> </ul> <p>How do you work with religion and spirituality in the therapy room? [20:00]</p> <ul> <li>Transforming suffering into poetry;</li> <li>Charles Darwin - no single organism is exactly the same as another;</li> <li>Carl Jung - everyone has their psychology.</li> </ul> <p>How can we acknowledge and work with our cultural and spiritual inheritance in therapy? [27:30]</p> <ul> <li>Forgiving frailties of the individual human psyche, re: group fanaticism, mob mentality;</li> <li>Mass graves of Indigenous children in Canada and the Catholic Church;</li> <li>Reckoning with the realities of history without judging.</li> </ul> <p>What would you say to people who are suffering right now?<strong> </strong>[36:30]</p> <ul> <li>Healing involves connection, and connection requires risk;</li> <li>Intimacy comes with pain because it touches against our wounds;</li> <li>Going deep into the lexicon of our pain</li> </ul> <p>For Mitchell’s podcast, look up "The Dignity of Suffering" wherever podcasts are found. Also, you can visit Mitchell at <a href="https://mitchellsmolkin.com/" target="_blank">https://mitchellsmolkin.com/</a></p> <p>For more of Matt Shedd's work, visit https://mattshedd.com. </p>
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