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Dr. Mesich is
no longer available to personally answer emails. Please refer to the
FAQ for answers to common
questions.
Dr. Mesich is
no longer available to personally answer emails. Please refer to the
FAQ for answers to common
questions.
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The Sensitive Person’s
Survival Guide: "Sensitive
people feel intense emotions, are aware of others’ feelings, are deeply
impacted by others’ emotions, and can’t shake off painful feelings because
all these things are directly due to empathy.” From this standpoint, recurrent
depression, as well as other emotional and even physical ailments can be better
understood and brought under control, rather than simply medicated. The answer
lies in a new way of looking at the problem, and in flower essences or remedies,
which have gained popularity for their usefulness in treating a variety of
emotional complaints. The
author of this simple to read, do it yourself guide to re-evaluating some common
mental health problems is a doctor of clinical psychology that has long studied
and blended practices from various alternative health fields with her own more
conventional tradition. After
suffering for years of her own depression, seemingly without cause and without
relief from counseling, Mesich discovered that she had empathic abilities. On a
deeply intuitive level, she was sensitive to the emotional conditions of others,
including her own patients, which resulted in her own feelings of suffering.
Research lead Mesich to conclude that this ability, which often times manifests
as a problem, can be brought under control and even put to positive use with the
help of flower remedies and meditation. Mesich
illustrates her treatment method by profiling several “emotionally sensitive
people” who were helped by looking at their conditions in a new way. While her
approach is uncommon in our culture due to stereotypes and misunderstandings,
Mesich makes a convincing case for further inquiry into the relationship between
the psychic aspects of empathy and the manifestation of depression among those
that are empathic. For those that wish to pursue this, an Appendix, Glossary and
References are included. While the book is short, and at times redundant on certain major points, it offers a new option for handling tough problems, and could be especially helpful to those that have exhausted other therapies and would like to try something different and inexpensive.
Holly Spaulding
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