Do you suspect that there’s something wrong with the way mainstream mental health is evolving? Does your clinic practice sometimes have “bad outcomes” while being too busy to address the underlying causes?
Teach the release modalities first, before you open up a can of worms.
Primum non nocere (“first do no harm”) was taught to me in medical school. Since graduation in 2007, I’ve worked in multiple environments where the healthcare system or my employer was causing the harm.
Residents, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and students of all ages in the pipeline: you are our future of healthcare. I could personally mentor you and help supervise your independent practice if you need me to help you break your glass ceiling. You will be highly skilled by comparison with PTSD as you sense the impact of trauma without having to make patients talk about it or feel uncomfortable. You will teach the patient to respect themselves by weighing the impact of retelling the story.
You will know how to take care of your empathy reserves and release negativity from your own body. In fact, I encourage all Western practitioners to add-in an Eastern modality or two into their mainstream practices. Patients need healthy activities between appointments to increase health and decrease dependency on a broken healthcare system.
As a Psychiatrist, helping veterans with disability evaluation claims is very rewarding. I even throw in my 10-minute healing pitch at the end. If you are a provider of any type, let me know if you’re interested via the contact form below. If you would like to learn how to help veterans with their VA disability claims, there is an immediate need.
PTSD Training
The Warrior Class book comes complete with therapy worksheets for immediate use. It compliments the Combat PTSD in America: Toward a Permanent Solution book. (They were originally in the same, single book.)
My Unique Approach
The current way we diagnose most mental illness has no basis in biology or pathophysiology, just groups of symptoms. Therefore, it can never be tied to anything that would heal people naturally. I believe the National Institutes of Health was right when they abandoned further research into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatry for diagnosing mental illness.1
A. The Trauma Grid
This is what I call the Trauma Grid, the first of three assessment tools that I created. This diagnostic approach helps you conduct an inventory of the client’s capacity (good and bad), opportunity and motivation and compare that to the traditional hypervigilance theory of PTSD. This allows for more sophisticated symptom management, which leads to mastery.
B. PMSE Assessment
The second assessment tool I created and started working with was a thorough evaluation, much like an inventory again, of the client’s Physical, Mental, Spiritual and Emotional wellbeing (PMSE). I define here spiritual as giving three options: a strong sense of life purpose, faith, or energy healing modalities (such as Emotion Code). I discovered that a patient in mental health crisis or grief can benefit from this simple tool by doing it themselves:
- Rank PMSE in numerical order. Rank your physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health from your greatest strength to your most challenging area. Many folks rank Mental #1 because they rely on their intellect and toughness to push through when times are tough.
- Do something really easy that is in the category of your greatest strength. For example, if your greatest strength is Mental, listen to a best-selling audiobook or podcast to learn how to overcome your problem.
- Start a sustained campaign to improve your weakest area. In general, make a plan to have balance, growth and change in each area for the rest of your life. Visualize it and start journaling to help make it become a reality. Thus, you can skip the middle two areas in a crisis to get feeling better much faster.
C. Interpret the Quantum Drag on Day 1
The third evaluation is to superimpose with your thorough psychiatric evaluation is a quantum physics/subconscious mind assessment. Careful attention is paid to prenatal, early childhood into early adulthood to explain to the patient WHY their emotions are inflated in particular ways. This, followed by three energy healing appointments for my toughest clients, and only one for people that are doing well.
It is imperative to me that people understand that flashbacks are electromagnetic waves in the body that can be dealt with in dozens of ways besides talking about it.
I have come to think of the body as containing a static electric charge that is infused with the body’s memories of everything and is directly manipulated by others – even from the other side of the world. The memory contains both information and energy. The two can not be separated. The electromagnetic waves in the chest during the pangs of grief touch this level of subconscious mind, so that when there is a new grief it also activates the old body memories of grief. This is a kindling effect of compiled, complex trauma when no healing has occurred in between. Therefore, one becomes more hypersensitized to future emotions so that all emotions can just get more difficult as one ages (if never exposed to healing).
A clinical example would be a Major Depressive episode. The bodily accumulation of stuck, trapped emotions in the body worsen the depressive episodes over time. An Accumulation Stress Injury occurs when continual suffering eventually ensues. It feels like there is a heavy weight with low energy and poor motivation – Quantum Drag. The hope is that body release work would help to decrease the intensity of emotions held in the body, thus alleviating the depressive episode and future episodes. (Now, it personally takes me three months to adjust after a deeply held emotion is released.) Once the patient realizes the energy release treatment actually worked, the patient will have a Mindshift and see all of their problems differently. Hope emerges when they realize they might not have to painfully talk through every bad emotion one at a time. Some people, such as sex trafficking victims, can’t do traditional talk therapy because many Western therapists want to talk about the past too much. This new view on mental health helps explain why.
Primum non nocere!
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1 Lilienfeld SO, Treadway MT. Clashing Diagnostic Approaches: DSM-ICD Versus RDoC. Annu Rev Clin Psychol. 2016;12:435-63. doi: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-021815-093122. Epub 2016 Feb 3. PMID: 26845519; PMCID: PMC5154554.