Original Broadcast: Modern Mindset
October is ADHD Awareness Month, and this year’s theme is the many faces of ADHD. It presents an opportunity to look at how the condition affects people from all backgrounds, genders, and ages. Joining Rory McGowan to discuss this is Dr Alice Ashby and/or Dr Hayley Ponsford and/or Sascha Landskron from London Psychiatry Clinic.
Guests: Alice Ashby
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
Post-traumatic stress disorder — reliving traumatic memories — is widespread in today's society. This episode seeks to help in finding a way to break unsettling links between such past experiences and the way they impact today's emotions. Once those links are addressed and memories are settled into the past, it's possible to look forward to a more empowered future.
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This is a powerful episode which was recorded for someone who often felt disrespected and unseen, and that the respect that they showed for others was not returned. Combined with this was a tendency to get stuck in a rut, and not to combine progress on a number of areas in parallel. It could be a useful contribution towards finding a more forward-looking perspective on life.
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Original Broadcast: Thought for the Week
Conscience has challenged humanity for millenia: so much so that its entry on Wikipedia includes 22,000 words. However securing that moral yardstick is not easy, whether you are guided by faith or not. Meanwhile, what was personal has become societal, while technology and what appear to be victimless crimes promote amorality. The Christian faith has struggled with understanding the fluid nature of conscience, notwithstanding Jesus's clear illustration of its significance in St. John's Gospel. Will the Church of England's new Archbishop contribute guidance with understanding conscience — and, for that matter, explaining how to love our enemies? Background music: 'Lost In Prayer' by Doug Maxwell
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
Past experiences may have not only treated you very badly at the time but also suppressed your anger, which has remained bottled up to the present day: so that they burst out when you'd least want them too. This episode is about going back to those early experiences, which may have been thoroughly unjustified, and finding ways to put them into perspective. Not all anger is irrational, but it's helpful to come to terms with it.
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Original Broadcast: Thought for the Week
We've all benefitted from a blend of guidance, reaction and experience in our journey through life, and most of all in those formative years of childhood and adolescence. However, as David Willetts wrote 15 years ago in 'The Pinch', the link between generations is getting ever more stretched. Experience should not have to bear the full weight of the absence of guidance and reaction as family structures weaken; if that is the case, we will have only ourselves to blame for anti-social breakdown. Background music: 'Everything Has a Beginning' by Joel Cummins
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Visits to the doctor and hospital appointments can give rise to irrational fear and anxiety — what is sometimes described as the 'monster under the bed' syndrome. If you struggle to find a justification for such fears, this episode may help you to build coping strategies and to become resourceful in getting on with having those checks — without anxiety.
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There's a strange convergence of aggression which is drawing both international conflict and personal hatred into the mainstream; social media bears considerable responsibility for this convergence, and Donald Trump's combination of his calls for peace while posting aggressive messages on Truth Social really don't help. There's a very straightforward instruction in the gospel of St. Matthew, to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us, but little guidance or teaching from Church leaders on how to make this happen. Drawing inspiration from a variety of sources, here are some ideas which could work at both personal and international levels. Background music: 'Confliction & Catharsis' by Asher Fulero
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
Those emotional triggers which go off when someone seems to provoke you could have their roots many years in the past. Of course, the comments that spark your reaction could be deliberate but the chances are that they're accidental. The sensitivity of your emotional triggers may hark back even as far as your childhood, when they were useful learning tools in the playground of early life. In that sense, they're a bit like landmines whose particular cruelty is in the fact that the person who buried them has no idea who is going to land on them in the future. It may prove easier to come to terms with your own emotional triggers before they accidentally harm your relationships of today.
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
The body's alarm systems of pain or anxiety certainly need a medical check-out; but sometimes, rather like over-sensitive technology, they can send false signals. If there are no underlying issues, this episode might help to put things in perspective as Adam Cox explores what he describes as the control room of the mind. Once acted on, those over-sensitive meesages of pain or anxiety may stop demanding so much attention, and you can move on.
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