The Truth about Dragons

The Importance of Fathers

For Father’s Day, tomorrow, friend Xerxes remembers his mother praising his own father for being “consistent.” He considers this a case of being damned with faint praise. He thinks “devoted” would have been better.
I think he is quite wrong.
 

The View from the Summit

 Psychiatry and psychology have it wrong. There is a cure for depression and anxiety. Here's an outline of how to find it.

The Cure - Part 1

We believe we can do better than we now do in healing anxiety and depression. Because we used to; and in some parts of the world, still do.
And this is an urgent concern: some are suffering the torments of hell. People are killing themselves.
Unfortunately, the reader, if galvanized to act, cannot put down this book and easily proceed on their own.

What is Mental Illness?

What is mental illness?
To begin with, it is not an illness.
Illness here is a metaphor. It relies on thinking of the mind as equivalent to the body. It is not.
The body is like a machine we operate. Each part has a purpose, and if it fails to achieve its purpose, we are ill.
The mind is not something we operate. It is our self.
What is the purpose of a self?

Narcissism: Its Cause and Its Cure

Where does narcissism start?
 
Here's a clue from the news.

What Is Depression?

So What Is Depression?
It is not an illness, so far as we know. All we really have is a set of symptoms. See the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual to make this clear. It is a bulleted checklist. Check off five or more, and that’s your diagnosis.And it may be an arbitrary list. What we call depression may, like a fever, or a skin rash, have a variety of different underlying causes.