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Research has indicated that persons whom hold strong beliefs in the paranormal or otherwise believe themselves to have had an experience tend to have suffered trauma as children. However, there has been very little research in the area and, to date, no studies have offered an in-depth perspective of how certain types of trauma may possibly lead to paranormal experiences (PE) or paranormal beliefs (PB) or explore what it is like for the individual in the course of their daily lives. Reductionists would like to pass off paranormal experiences as hallucinations or other forms of psychopathology....

Depression... It's the emptiness and feelings of hopelessness that disrupts your peace, making you feel pretty helpless. It can make you feel irritable, fearful, completely devoid of energy, like you are stuck in a mud pit up to your neck with only a spoon to dig yourself out. You may find yourself avoiding people, avoiding the very activities you once loved to do. You just want to sleep...and sleep....and sleep. In between the sleep are periods of just wanting to cry. You may not even know why. You crave comfort food - the stuff you just KNOW is bad for you. Cookies, sweets, junk food, fatty...

Anxiety is often looked at as the enemy in our culture. The goal is to get rid of it, usually with medication. There is a cultural conditioning that says, "something is wrong with you if you get too anxious, take an Ativan." Being human, by its very nature, has to include some anxiety. We always live in the unknown There are always choices we have to make in our life in order to make meaning and pursue our ultimate truth and purpose. To be authentic, we must unlearn society's blabber that we must be ninja robots and eliminate our anxiety. Instead we must accept and incorporate our anxiety of...

Written for mental health professionals and social workers, Unconventional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how conventional CBT can be ill-suited towards multicultural clients and how to adapt CBT to diverse populations. Specific examples included.