professional advice

A vacation doing what it is you like which could include swimming, hiking, fishing, boating, golf, & simply relaxing in the sunshine can do wonders for your mental health. I do not agree at all with the attitude by psychiatrsists that when you're feeling run down & anxious you've got to get better before you even consider some rest & relaxation. This negative approach generally leads people into taking tranquilizers & ruminating about their problems alone in a dark room & in a depressing therapists office. The downhill spiral in your mood from this approach generally leads to deep depressions & ruination of personal relations, careers & your financial well-being. This all could also land you in a strait jacket in isolation in a mental hospital concentration camp which helps to ramp up the incomes of the diabolically insane psychiatrists. Going on a nice vacation & staying active with good food & a lot of rest will often be all you need to jump back into your life with vim & vigor! 

My firm committment to natural health care with a particular focus on solely natural approaches for my mental health has left me with a biological age that is decades younger than my chronological age. The feeling has been so weird to be relating so well to being a lot younger that I feel as if I'm in a time warp and I refuse to even consider my actual age and I stopped celebrating birthdays a long time ago. At times it seems I'm being dealt with as if I should be ashamed of myself for not behaving like my age and yet I think this is ridiculous to insist someone feel old when they're simply fortunate enough to be able to maintain a young feeling about life. Frankly I like the theme of Blackpinks song "Forever Young" and I simply don't really want to feel old. It is my professional and personal position it's a very negative psychological approach which could lead to serious depression if you insist that someone simply act their age instead of wanting to stay young in body, mind, and spirit! I suggest feeling, thinking and being young as long as possible! But I think you have to work on this. It takes a firm committment to natural healthcare for your body, mind and spirit to be abe to maintain a youthful zest for life for as long as possible! And with this in mind always as usual try to stay away from the psychiatrists who may insist you're suffering from manic episodes simply because you value being and feeling young and have developed the capacity to do so! The drugs the psychiatrists prescribe for their ideas will zap the youth out of you in a flash! 

I personally drink several cups of coffee daily. I like my coffee iced and black. It is my opinion that unless you suffer from high blood pressure drinking coffee in moderation daily may promote good overall health. Early in the morning my first cup of iced coffee helps me fight off fatigue and increase my energy levels which is particularly important for my alertness when I'm driving. Studies have shown drinking between two to five cups of coffee daily may also help protect you from heart disease, type 2 diabetes, several types of cancer, depression, being overweight, liver diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. These benefits of coffee drinking may actually increase your longevity. I suggest avoiding sugar and artificial sweeteners in your coffee. You may want to add a little cinnamon or vanilla to your coffee for taste and some enhanced health benefits. 

I do not think psychiatric drugs serve any positive purpose. Their clearance by government and professional bodies for clinical use on people manifests a very deep problem in the evolution of modern civilization with what is called progress in this instance manifesting pure ignorance. These very dangerous drugs are being prescribed for supposed psychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, which in themselves have no credible scientific basis as disease entities. There are no biological markers and lab tests for these elusive labels. They are subjective labels based on socioeconomic and political variables and that's not good medical science. And so the psychiatric drugs prescribed for these labels which hit very sensitive areas of your brain are actually being prescribed by mad scientists with you being made into experimental lab rats as the psychiatrists make a fortune playing with fire with your life. I suggest only natural interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental health issues.  

The old cliche that there are a lot of things far more important than money for your health, wellbeing & happiness simply isn't true in the kind of world mankind has created. You should never trust psychiatrists or others who keep insisting money isn't essential for the wellbeing of yourself and the children. This is a cruel move to actually try to create a lifetime of painful chronic dependence and disability. Of course being very wealthy does not provide anyone with an impenetrable shield from serious accidents, deadly infectious diseases, cancer, depression, anxiety, and other serious illnesses. However, you have a better chance at prevention and recovery with more and more money and healthier lifestyles. And in times of health or sickness chances are you will cope better with the advantages only money can buy for you. Furthermore, you simply can not secure your own freedom in a healthy way without money. Political rhetoric that your freedom is more important than money is hypocritically absurd unless you consider it perversely enjoyable to be able to rant about your democratic freedoms as a starving delirious homeless person under a bridge in Los Angeles or on a street corner with gangs tracking you down in North Philadelphia or Harlem. Sure, love and affection and mutually desirable sexual relations attract many of us, but without the advantages money buys us all you will be too sick and weak to be able to experience these basic human emotions and desires in a positive way. Anyone with money who tells you money isn't important is using their financial advantage to try to sadistically set you up for a lifetime of hell! Study, work and fight for your rights for a decent amount of money! Your freedom &  overall health in body, mind & spirit really depends on it! 

I do not support the idea that now that there's drugs that can prevent AIDs why not run around and have all the casual sex you want. The drugs themselves can have horrible side effects including serious liver poblems which can be lethal. Furthermore, there are also other venereal diseases which can be serious which you can get such as penicillin resistant syphilis and gonorrhea. It's a horrible idea for me to consider taking potentially toxic drugs to supposedly enjoy sex. Honestly the best idea for your health in body, mind and spirit is to be very selective and careful about all sexual encounters. And due to the risk of various types of venereal diseases I suggest condoms for consensual sex between adults unless you are mutually trying to have a child. Even birth control pills have the potential for many serious side effects and still leave you open to risk for the transmission of venereal diseases. 

 I do not endorse the use of any tranquilizers to relax. In fact even though I am legally allowed to carry a DEA # to write for controlled substances I don't bother with one. Even the minor tranquilizers carry with them the risk of addiction, tolerance & withdrawal. Furthermore, tranquilizers generally lead you into depressive states, they have very dangerous interactions with even a little alcohol, and you're risking your life and the lives of others if you drive under the influence of tranquilizers. Furthermore, your mind can't possibly be as alert for school, work or for your personal life under the influence of tranquilizers. So I suggest regular aerobic exercise and meditation to relax. Walking, jogging, riding a bike, and swimming are great types of exercise which I recommend doing about 30 minutes daily. Adding about 20 minutes of daily meditation will add to your capacity to relax naturally without drugs!

The daily vivid images of war in the Middle East & between Russia & Ukraine on Al Jazeera & other news outlets is disturbing. Our minds are being imploded with violence & human suffering of a scale not seen since World War II. Most recently it has been suggested by some sources in Russia & elsewhere that we are actually in World War III now. Maps of likely nuclear attack strike points have been appearing online with suggestions this eras hypersonic nuclear bombs will wipe out entire cities. I do not suggest support for war hysteria & pro war sentiments to cope with these shocking developments. A way to try to maintain your sanity at this time is to aggressively support initiatives for peace, not war. Let the politicians know you expect them to work tirelessly for peaceful solutions to the present hostilities & they will be held accountable if they're not careful with their words & actions. And be very careful what you publish online about adversial powers at this time. I suggest letting them know you're more interested in peace & a normalization of relations than military confrontation. A committment to this course of action & some prayers might help save us all!     

My position on whether you can have a good relationship without marriage and children is yes. However, some people prefer marriage and children. This is a very personal choice which depends on the two of you who are sharing a close personal relationship. The most important things are the love, care, trust and consideration which you share with each other.  

I do not suggest accepting advice that claims children are better off focusing on just "more important things in life" and not on money. In times of health and sickness anybody is simply better off with as much money as possible. Psychiatrists consistently take the position there are more important things in life than money, but in the kind of world mankind has created you can not have your freedom and dignity intact and enjoy any degree of quality of life without money. Even good natural healthcare costs money. You can't get fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, green tea, coffee, quality clothing, and healthy housing without money. It's a set up for modern day slavery which the psychiatrists feed off of when they say your children and you shouldn't be placing money as a priority in your lives. Children should be taught the value of money and how to handle money well as early in life as possible. And there should be business courses starting in grade school for the kids!  

There is evidence that drinking red wine may offer many health benefits. Consider the “French paradox" wherein although the French overall have a higher than average saturated fat intake, the French die less often from coronary heart disease due to their higher consumption of red wine. There are many antioxidants in red wine which protect your cells from damage. The antioxidants which are found in red wine are polyphenols, with resveratrol being a polyphenol of particular interest. Resveratrol may protect your brain and heart from damage from free radicals. Resveratrol may also lower the risk of many types of cancer by interfering with cancer cell growth. And heart health may be improved in red wine drinkers because it helps lower the risk of plaque buildup in the arteries. Furthermore the polyphenols in red wine prevent the formation of certain proteins which create toxic plaques that can lead to death of brain cells. And so drinking red wine may lower the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. There also appears to be lower rates of stroke and depression in red wine drinkers. Overall drinking red wine in moderation may be associated with better health and a longer life.

Henry David Thoreau  once wrote  "All nature is doing her best each moment to make us well—she exists for no other end. Do not resist her. With the least inclination to be well we should not be sick." Getting more fresh air & exercise is a good prescription to improve your health physically, mentally, & spiritually. This is best achieved with a strong connection with nature as experienced by feeling a close relationship or an emotional attachment to nature. Spending time in nature has been associated with improved attention, less stress, improved mood, less risk of psychiatric disorders, better empathy, better physical health & improved spiritual awareness. And more doses of exposure to nature can actually help alleviate depression & anxiety. 

Many of us have had toxic relationship experiences.  It's always very emotionally shocking to have invested yourself in someone for a long time and suddenly find out that person is like a stranger to you. All that love, support and sexual intimacy is now making you feel like a fool. You're crushed and feel inadequate, lonely and as if maybe you did something wrong and your world is simply feeling empty. Personal relationship break ups are extremely stressful even if you are the one who felt you had to break off the relationship. All of the sudden you're feeling alone in the world. Scenes from reality show soap operas are all too common in real life with your lover having an affair with sometimes who you thought was your best friend while you're working or simply out shopping. When this happens you can't be too hard on yourself and start second guessing why after all did you introduce someone you thought was so important to you to who you thought was your friend. It takes a firm committment going both ways to maintain the type of monogamous solid loving relationship most of us dream about having in our lives. And after all you can't keep your lover downstairs chained in a cage in the cellar away from everyone so if this kind of terrible thing happens remember the sooner you find out the truth about who you were so committed to the earlier you will be able to start on a path of emotional healing and move on with your life. This is a rough time in people's lives and can lead to drug and alcohol abuse and even suicide in anyone. So if you know of someone going through this that you care about don't let them down at this critical time. Let them know you're around to talk with and hang around with. This is a time in your life to find time to do more of the things you enjoy in life such as spending time in nature, playing with your dog, and spending more time with your parents, siblings or kids as you discover life can now move ahead without you losing your own feelings for your self-worth. I don't suggest jumping right into another deep relationship as soon as this occurs. Give yourself time to heal, realize you don't need to always be in a deep relationship to define yourself as a person, and if someone else comes along you think may be worthwhile  investing yourself in maybe things will go better this time around. And if you feel professional counseling can help you cope with all this better make certain you like the person you chose for this or there will be no chance of a therapeutic relationship developing. 

Although I am 100% in support of self-defense the issue of an epidemic of gun violence raises deep concerns. Clearly the majority of people buying firearms are not buying them for self defense and are not handling these deadly weapons properly. This is of course however not a simple issue due to cleared concerns dealing with government overreach particularly in an era where the country fears massive surveillance measures with disruptive satellite driven neurotechnologies which are undermining citizens basic freedoms. Government overreach was already a concern when the US Constitution was written prior to the development of surveillance technologies. This all leaves the lines severely blurred between who the worse criminals in our society really are. And so while supporting the right to self-defense I must take the position nevertheless that firearms for everyone, including law enforcement, must be tightly regulated with a strong message that anyone who actually uses a firearm will be held accountable. Firearms are associated with about 50,000 deaths a year in the USA. They are the leading cause of death among children and youth. This is a public health crisis. If you have firearms and children at home and the firearms aren't securely locked up I frankly think you belong in jail. I personally took a riflery course at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pensylvania. As a sport I thought this was challenging and fun. However, in all honesty I didn't think it was all that hard to develop an exerptise in this and hit the bullseye most of the time. So I suggest being very careful with firearms. 

The world is in bad shape. It appears the degree of military hostilities have not been as threatening to worldwide stability since World War II. The Doomsday clock is clicking closer and closer to midnight. Syndicated journalists have been publishing maps which portray the most likely nuclear strike points worldwide. The hypersonic nuclear weapons that Russia, the United States, China, France, England, India, Pakistan, North Korea and possibly Israel have can knock out entire cities in a flash. The devastation was shocking enough at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and yet this new generation of nuclear weapons are catastrophically more powerful. Tuning into the realities of what's actually happening in the Ukraine war, Gaza, Sudan, Ethiopia, Congo, Haiti, Myanmar, and elsewhere will shake up the psyche of any normal person. These tensions are heightened by very tense situations between Mainland China and Taiwan,  North Korea and South Korea, Thailand and Cambodia,  and India and Pakistan. This all could make anybody go insane if you don't try hard to maintain your sanity. I personally suggest throwing your full support for peace initiatives between Russia and the United States because unless these major powers can stop edging towards a possible nuclear confrontation there's no chance for coordinated efforts to realize peace in the other troubled regions of the world. Playing politics at a time like this could be costly. You'll feel better about yourself and part of the peace process if you endorse peace instead of war at this time and leave politics out of this search for peace! Only peace can save the world now!  

It's very enticing for most of us to find some time to get a sun tan. Moderate exposure to the sun can in fact offer many health benefits. However, this exposure should be done very carefully with overexposure avoided. UVB rays from the sun convert dehydrocholesterol in the skin to vitamin D3 which is important for bone health, calcium absorption, and immune function. With adequate vitamin D there is a lower risk of osteoporosis, rickets, and bone fractures. Furthermore, vitamin D helps to boost your immune response which generally lowers your risk for infections and autoimmune diseases. And sunlight helps to boost your serotonin levels which improves mood and lessens depression. Also nitric oxide released in the skin from sun exposure may help lower your blood pressure and improve your heart health. However, overexposure to the sun can cause sunburns, premature aging, and an increased risk of melanoma and basal cell carcinoma. Tanning beds in particular may increase your risk for skin cancer. I recommend along with moderate exposure to the sun the use of sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30+, use of hats, quality sunglasses, and light cotton clothing to help prevent UV damage to your skin. And be particularly careful about direct sun exposure between 10am and 4pm which are peak UV hours. Optimal sun exposure for adults is 5-15 minutes to the face, arms, and hands 3-4 times a week, outside of peak UV hours. Sunburn should at all times be avoided. Furthermore, you should be particularly careful about direct sun exposure for children. Too much sun exposure in childhood is a primary risk factor for skin cancer later in life. And infants under 6 months should be protected completely from direct sun exposure. You can enjoy the sun and be all the healthier and happier for the time you spend in the sun if you are smart about your sun exposure.