Psychology and Wellness

I've been a LibDem supporter all my life but their Party's latest idea that they are championing concerns me (see their  LibDem Facebook post ). Here's my response, based on both personal experience as well as my education in psychology and philosophy research.  Psychologists have a poor record on LGBT+ rights and, as a profession, are responsible for misclassifying being gay and trans as a mental illness and performing abusive and dangerous practices on them, dressed up as therapy.  This has also caused endless discrimination and hate crime ever since, one that still continues to this day, even beyond declassification. This can be seen by the graffiti attack hate speech which said 'mental disorder detected' on a merely rainbow coloured artwork in Kingston town centre within the LibDem area of Kingston upon Thames/Surbiton. © Liba Kaucky 2023 All Rights Reserved  And although this graffiti was cleaned up it only lasted a couple of weeks before words were scrubbed ou...

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay2022! Exercise is proven to be excellent for everyone's mental health, as well as obviously physical health too, because it naturally boosts your happy hormones 🙂 and generally being sedentary can make you feel more 'down' than you actually are. Healthy mind in a healthy body!  Dance is great for this because it combines exercise with music so it's uplifting and boosts your mood,💃💃🏿 as does creating art, which is why there is such a thing as Art Therapy. 🎨🖌️🖼️ Art is and always has been a strong passion of mine alongside music. They are who I am which is why I chose aesthetics (which includes Philosophy of Art, Music, Dance, Theatre/Literature, Nature, hence my love of Philosophy) as one of my 3 specializations at uni (the other 2 being Politics, and Ethics). For me, art, music, dance, theatre, philosophy and nature are the main things that keep me mentally (emotionally and physically) healthy. Life without these is, as far as I'...