by PatrickRamseyLPC | Apr 10, 2017 | Commentary | 1 Comment
When talking about consciousness or awareness, a major key is being able to control the ego. In Freudian terms, the ego can get complicated, but when I discuss it all I mean is that part of the personality that acts by impulse in the function of demanding wants and...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Apr 6, 2017 | Commentary | 0 Comments
I’ve been hearing a lot about depression today from various sources, some people asking what the difference is between sadness and depression, some wondering if people have to live with it as a life-long illness, and some just wondering what steps to take. Depression...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Apr 2, 2017 | Commentary | 0 Comments
Years ago when the Star Wars prequels came out I remember being annoyed by the young Anakin Skywalker. Though he was nowhere as annoying as his whiny older self, played by Hayden Christensen, I hated that the young to-be apprentice seemed to accidentally be the hero...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Feb 17, 2017 | Commentary | 0 Comments
Today I attended a lecture on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy given by UTPB’s Assistant Professor in Counseling, Robert Zeglin, Ph.D., LPC, NCC. It was last week that I registered for the lecture, and I remember thinking that I’d not studied REBT in-depth,...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Jan 16, 2017 | Poetry | 0 Comments
I’ve always liked Dr. King, even as a kid in elementary school, when I didn’t really understand the impact of his life on twentieth century America and the world. Little did I realize in Mrs. Smith’s class in the fifth grade that King’s death had come just about a...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Dec 4, 2016 | Prose | 2 Comments
Walking across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco brought several reminders as crossed the strait that divides the two sides of what is a very tiny looking area of California on a map. First, as is the case with many monumental natural and man-made structures, I...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Dec 2, 2016 | Prose | 0 Comments
I don’t have my shit together. What a crass way to start of a blog post, right? I’ll add to the previous statement—I’m not under any illusions that I have my shit together. If I was listening to someone while in the counseling seat, my first questions would be, “What...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Nov 30, 2016 | Prose, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Not long ago I entered the Taco Villa drive through at an Odessa location with the intention of getting a bean and cheese burrito to tide me over for a couple of hours. Being fairly cheap, and at that moment needing fairly cheap food prepared quickly, reliable Tex-Mex...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Sep 14, 2016 | Commentary, Prose | 0 Comments
I’m not really much of a cook. The men and women on all sides of my family seemed to have enjoyed it, but it really feels like a lot of energy to do it. Of course, I do so sometimes, but really only when I have to. I excel at boiling water, softening hard pasta,...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Sep 13, 2016 | Commentary, Prose | 0 Comments
A friend of mine and I were discussing coping skills lately and doing our share of miscommunicating. It seemed she was under the impression that I thought one of her coping skill, withdrawal, was a bad one. When I learned this, I wondered to myself what could have...