Words of wisdom and miscellaneous facts by Dr. Wysong and others.
This is an accumulation over several decades and the accuracy cannot be attested to.
28. FIRST THINGS FIRST
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12/24/2019
The medical view of the mind is that it is just a product of the electrical currents flowing across neurons. This hamstrings approaches to mental health. Effects are focused upon, diseases named, symptoms treated, but cures are elusive.
Contrary to popular belief, although the mind is related to the brain, it is not a mere product of neurons (much more on this in Solving the Big Questions), nor is the mind disjointed from bodily function. Depression and psychological stress can sap the will for a productive life, suppress the immune system, and open the door for infectious and degenerative diseases. On the other hand, happiness and optimism can imbue life with health, creativity, and purpose. Because mind and thought are nonmaterial sorts of things, the demanding physical needs of the brain are often ignored by psychologists and therapists. On the other hand, the psychiatric profession sees the mind as closely allied with matter, but only insofar as it relates to pharmaceutical manipulation. All such professions, as a matter of course in their conventional approach to mental illness, miss the point. If the mind is not working properly, the obvious matters of health must be taken care of first. Remembering our origins is key. Daily exercise, sunlight, proper natural nutrition, and pleasant social interaction directly affect the function of the mind. It is remiss to attempt emotional repair using drugs or talk therapy if the patient never sees the light of day, sits in front of a television for hours on end, and consumes only processed junk food. Not living properly affects the body, which in turn affects the brain, which then affects the body, and on and on. While in a dark mood, we may be convinced that the entire problem is our job, mate, or upbringing, and that our inactivity, diet, and lack of sun have nothing to do with how we feel. But vitamin D deficiency from insufficient sun striking our skin, B vitamin deficiency from food processing, insufficient minerals from factory farmed foods and from being leached out of the body with sodas and metabolic acidosis, imbalanced amino acids from a protein-poor diet, toxicity from environmental pollutants, drugs, starches, and sugars can dramatically affect the brain. Toxicities, deficiencies, excesses, and imbalances can make us vulnerable to, and even create the gamut of mental illnesses ranging from mild depression to psychopathic acting out, even murder and suicide. Although the relationship between overall health and brain function is obvious, millions of people are on drugs or live life in silent psychological misery, while the body endures constant abuse from poor life choices. Why feel like a helpless victim of depression or take a drug that could create dependency and produce side effects when something as simple as a multiple vitamin and mineral supplement, eating fresh natural protein-rich foods, drinking lots of pure water, achieving healthy weight, and taking vigorous walks in the sun might be the cure? Unfortunately, a mind that is in an unhealthy setting and not properly fueled cannot be trusted to make such rational decisions about lifestyle. So while well, like right now while reading this book, make the decision to take the healthy steps outlined in the previous chapters at the first sign of mental illness. Giving nature a chance is not only the first thing we should do when physical or mental illness strikes, it is often the only thing we need to do.
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Introduction
1. We Can Agree 2. Possibility Thinking 3. The Solver Principles 4. Our Owner's Manual 5. We Live in A Unique Time 6. Being Health Smart 7. The Illusion of Youth Health 8. The Good Old Days 9. Timing Life 10. Exercise 11. Hormones and Steroids - A Two-Edged Sword 12. The Female Hormone Problem 13. Growing Older 14. Squaring the Curve 15. Healthy Dos and Don'ts 16. The Medical Profession 17. The Greatest Threat to Health 18. Don't Surrender to Medical Care 19. But We Live Longer Today 20. Dollars Don't Make Health 21. Disease Does Not Strike Us 22. Germs Don't Cause Disease We Do 23. From Where Does Healing Come 24. The Best Food 25. Food Ethics 26. Healthy Weight 27. Healthy Eating Ideas 28. First Things First 29. Hopelessness 30. Depression 31. Memories 32. Addiction 33. Blaming the Parents 34. Surviving Tragedy 35. Touch 36. Music as Healer 37. Humor 38. Pets as Life Savers 39. Pet Keeping - A Serious Responsibility 40. The Myth of 100 Complete Pet Foods 41. Feeding Pets as Nature Intended 42. Industry vs. Earth 43. Population 44. Modernity's Deception 45. Animal Rights 46. Biophilia 47. Respect for All Life 48. Doing Good With Business 49. The Global Economy 50. The Power of Money 51. Financial Affairs 52. Work as Friend 53. Government 54. The End of Civilization 55. Freedom Is Not Equality 56. Sex 57. Being in Love 58. Marriage - The Union of Opposites 59. Divorce 60. The Family Nest 61. Having Babies 62. Children 63. The Empty Nest 64. Experience 65. Education 66. Life Is Uncertain 67. Things Mound Up 68. Murphy's Law 69. Life's Predictability 70. Finding Home 71. Learn From History 72. Shaping the Future 73. The Other Line Always Moves Faster 74. Little Things Add Up 75. Growing Up 76. Alone 77. Hope 78. Paying the Success Price 79. Change A Wonderful Thing 80. Being the Best You Can Be 81. Do Something, Something Happens 82. Change the World 83. Growing Good People 84. Words 85. Genius 86. Listen and Learn 87. Mind Over Matter 88. Looking Good 89. Protecting Yourself 90. Self Sufficiency 91. Life Is Math 92. Ethics 93. Conscience 94. The Long View 95. Being Real 96. Change 97. End and Beginning |