Dr. Gary Bell's Absurd Psychology
Episodes
Borderline Personality: The Art of Gaslighting
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Borderline personality disorder is a chronic condition that may include mood instability, difficulty with interpersonal relationships, and high rat...
Raised By Abuse
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The brains of children raised in violent families resemble the brains of soldiers exposed to combat, psychologists say. They're primed to perceive thr...
Seasonal Depression
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When daylight hours start to decrease and it gets colder outside many people may find themselves experiencing symptoms resembling depression. For some...
Emotional Flooding: Fear Strikes
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest relationship challenges that people struggle with is emotional flooding. It's something that happens to everyone sometimes, and if ...
The Power of Resilience
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Adversity is a fact of life. Resilience is that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back at least as strong ...
False Memory and Manipulation
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Although memories seem to be a solid, straightforward sum of who people are, strong evidence suggests that memories are actually quite complex, subjec...
The Law of Attraction
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You may have a pretty good idea about what it is you're attracted to: hair color, eye color, height, smell… Smell? Believe it or not, your subconsci...
Diagnosis STUPID
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stupidity is in all of us. However, the degrees of stupid varies. . We are influenced by various cognitive biases that we are not aware of. The music ...
Maniacs: Bi-Polar Disorder
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bipolar disorders, or manic-depressive illness, is a group of disorders characterized by the presence of pronounced high-energy phases known as manic ...
Shaped by Attachment
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The emotional bond that typically forms between infant and caregiver is the means by which the helpless infant gets primary needs met. It then becomes...
Self Entitlement Revealed
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Self-entitlement is when an individual perceives themselves as deserving of unearned privileges. These are the people who believe life owes them somet...
Sex Addiction: Human Horn Dogs
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For some people, persistent sexual desires, thoughts, and behavior can become problematic. Such individuals may become preoccupied with sexual fantasi...
Despicable Us
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We are all despicable in various forms of despicableness. If we all could come to grips with that, than we understand that what makes us despicable ar...
The Truth
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Truth tends to lead to successful action. In that much, truth has instrumental value. But truth also has intrinsic value. Given the choice between a l...
Magical Thinking, Extra Sensory Perception and GOD
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
ESP has been defined as 'anomalous processes of information or energy transfer, processes such as telepathy… that are currently unexplained in terms...
Hate Crimes: Psychopaths Among Us
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
People victimized by violent hate crimes are more likely to experience more psychological distress than victims of other violent crimes. Specifically,...
Old Farts: Aging
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
By 2030, the number of Americans age 65 and over is projected to be about 71.5 million, of which nearly 10 million will be at least 85. As more people...
Pre-Marriage: Before You Sign That Contract...
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ironically, before romantic love became the basis for marriage—a game-changer that historian Stephanie Coontz dates to the 1700s—marriage was base...
Microaggression: Hidden Prejudice
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A microaggression is a subtle, often unintentional, form of prejudice. Rather than an overt declaration of racism or sexism, a microaggression often t...
Alcohol Addiction
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For many, beer, wine, and spirits conjure up thoughts of social gatherings and tipsy fun. But alcohol is a nervous system depressant and is also assoc...
After the Abortion
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Emotional and psychological effects following abortion are more common than physical side effects and can range from mild regret to more serious compl...
Schizoid, Paranoid and Schizotypal Personalities
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Schizoid, Paranoid and Schizotypal Personality Disorders are the most commonly seen personality disorders in the World. They are considered Cluster A ...
Deep Listening
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the contemporary culture of speed, how many of us have developed the sensory capacity to hear the world, or for that matter, to truly hear what oth...
Are You Normal?
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It is past time that we rethink what we mean by the words normal and abnormal as those words apply to the mental and emotional states and behaviors of...
What Will Your Children Remember?
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What will make the most important difference in the lives of our children? One way of assessing the future impact of our efforts is to consider what p...
Sensitive People
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It is certain that being insensitive is an undesirable trait, but does that mean that the opposite, 'being sensitive', is a desirable one? Apparently,...
Trapped in Your Life
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
All of us will feel trapped at some point, whether that be in a job, house, neighborhood, financial circumstance, religion, family or relationship. Us...
Regret: An Apologetic Life
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Regret is a negative cognitive/emotional state that involves blaming ourselves for a bad outcome, feeling a sense of loss or sorrow at what might have...
Greed and Gluttony
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The age we live in has the fattest and greediest people ever. With too much stationary time sitting in front of phones, televisions and computers peop...
Who am I?
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is the purpose of life? Is there a God? What on Earth are we doing here? Among life's big questions, the one that has always interested me the mo...
Man and God
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Why do people believe in God? For most people in the world, the answer seems obvious: Because it's self-evident that God exists. From the point of vie...
From Self Control to Self Discipline
23 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the greatest Human challenges we all face is ourselves. Lack of Self Control and moving that to Self Discipline makes our lives productive, mem...
Reading People: Get a Clue
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Reading people in this day and age can be hard. Many of our relationships are now on-line, over the phone and rarely in person. However, our meta-comm...
How Poverty and Environment Effect Mental Health
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Quality of life is a general term that simply infers stability, health and consistency. However, most of this world operates paycheck to paycheck, ind...
Staying Married After Having Children
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When a baby comes into a couple's life, extra stress and strain is understandable. In a healthy relationship, the couple tends to pull together and is...
Dealing with Apathy
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Apathy is the opposite of love. People who pass around apathy as their go to emotion are extremely hard too deal with. Their biggest issue is that the...
Metrosexual Evolution and Influence
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Metrosexual is a blend of metropolitan and heterosexual, coined in the 1990's describing a man (especially one living in an urban, post-industrial, ca...
How Finances Effect Relationships
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Financial issues (especially long term) are one of the top issues relationships and families break apart. When people live paycheck to paycheck they a...
Neighbors from Hell
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At some point in our lives, many of us end up with neighbors from Hell. If it be noise, trash, smelly food, dog poop, party animals, fighting, drinkin...
Positive Parenting: Discipline or Punishment
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Parenting can be so challenging in the day and age where technology grows faster than our emotional development. Are are children are little marketing...
Dysfunctional Families: Empty, Lonely and Alone
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A family is dysfunctional if they regularly experience conflict, misbehavior, or abuse in a way that causes some members of the family to accommodate ...
Millennials: Narcassist and Friend
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Millennials are, arguably, the most reviled generation in recent history, and tons of consultants are working to decipher them. Called the Trophy Gene...
Paraphilias: Freaky Attractions
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A paraphilia is a condition in which a person's sexual arousal and gratification depend on fantasizing about and engaging in sexual behavior that is a...
Mind Games
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mind games are often subconscious patterns people use to get what they want. Most of these games are learned in childhood and often become assimilated...
Depression and Anxiety: A Life Un-lived
04 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Depression and Anxiety can become you. Over 70% of people with Depression also suffer from Anxiety and vice versa. Both will stop you in your tracks a...
Will, Faith and Trust: Three Keys to a Worthy Life
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The philosopher Richard Rorty talks about people's "final vocabulary" words and phrases we use when we're done wondering about something. Will, Faith ...
Unconscious Mind: The Human Operating System
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The unconscious is sometimes referred to as the "shadows of the mind," but it is not some black hole of unacceptable impulses waiting to trip you up. ...
Groupthink: Dumb and Dumber
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Groupthink happens when a group of well-intentioned people make irrational or non-optimal decisions that are created by the urge to conform or please....
Adjustment Disorder: Dealing with Unwanted Change
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Life is a continuous adjustment to events and incidents we can not control. Adjustment Disorder comes from poor or no coping skills around these situa...
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders and Sadistic Zit Pickers
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
All the different flavors of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders will be covered. From Body Dysmorphic (unrealistic view of one's body), hoarding, hair pul...
The Histrionic Personality
16 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Histrionic personality disorder is a personality mental disorder characterized by inappropriate attention-seeking behavior, rapid emotional shifts, an...
Birth Order Plus Parenting Equals Learned Behaviors
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you're firstborn, middle child, last-born, or only child, birth order can have a big effect on your personality and behavior. Simply by virtue...
Psychology of Success
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our lives are shaped by our successes, failures and breaks. As we live our life in hope and expectations for good to come our way, we have to continua...
Resiliency: When All Goes Wrong
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Life can go wrong in a heart beat. Amazingly, we often are not prepared for it. Losing a job, sudden illness, death of a loved one, no justice, no fai...
Impatience: The Cost
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We've all been impatient—and we've all made rash decisions when impatience got the better of us. We've left lines that were barely moving, only to g...
How to Make Friends and Keep Them
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Deep inside all of us is a yearning to be understood and accepted for who we are. Friendship is a source of our soul's nourishment and growth. Finding...
Feeling Empty: The Cry of the Soul
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
People confront feelings of emptiness in life for many reasons.. A sudden change in life circumstances may also produce such feelings. A common sympto...
Panic Attacks: Paralyzed with Fear
21 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Over 2% of the known population of the entire earth experience panic attacks on a regular basis. Panic attacks are a deeply primitive reaction to the ...
Higher Conscious: The Voice of Our Soul
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Higher Conscious is a term that came out of religion and has manifested itself into philosophy, meditation and people striving to discover their true ...
Damaging Words and Phrases
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Words and phrases that stick in our minds as repeated self-talk can define parts of who we are. These tracks have either been said to ourselves, said ...
Healing Power of Humor
31 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Laughter is a reflection of our state of mind. It communicates hope, faith and many good things. Humor is always best directed at ourselves and not to...
Infatuation vs. Love
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Honeymoon Phase (beginning of a relationship) is so powerful chemically and emotionally that we often fall into the negative outcome of making com...
Victimology: Living as a Victim
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In life, we all become victims in small ways daily and sometimes largely. Being a victim is to have lost all sense of security to people or a circumst...
Narcissistic Rage: Can't Accept Human
10 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Narcissistic rage is the inability to accept rejection and forcing people to be labeled by their vulnerability or mistakes. There is no such thing as ...
Intuition: Gut Feeling or Paranoia?
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Every day, we are met with intuitions that appear to provide the answers to questions in our lives. We step outside on a sunny day, and a nagging feel...
Sexual Orientation
12 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Diversity in sexual orientation—whether gay, straight, bisexual, or somewhere in between—has sparked long-standing controversies across the globe....
Overcoming Shyness
05 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Shyness is the awkwardness or apprehension some people feel when approaching or being approached by other people. Unlike introverts, who feel energize...
Binge Eating
29 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
At the heart of binge eating, we find men and women who seem to lack any and all control surrounding their food consumption. An entire episode of bing...
Gaslighting: Am I Crazy?
22 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Gaslighting is an insidious form of manipulation and control. The victims of gaslighting are mislead and forced to doubt what they know to be true, ev...
Get a Better Partner Picker
15 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
People all across the world who exercise free will to pick whomever they choose to have a relationship with. Mostly, it is based off of looks, impulse...
Stripping Down the Labels and Connect to the Person
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My special guest Lauren Nile (author of RACE: My Story and Humanity's Bottom Line) is also on Voice America's Variety Channel with her show The Fate o...
Sexual Misconduct
01 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sexual Misconduct is and has been rampant in our work force and day to day life. From unwanted passes, rape, touching and groping, the list goes on an...
Hoarders and Shop-a-Holics: Empty Inside
17 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hoarders make up about 5% of the known US population and nearly 9% of the worlds population. People who develop emotional attachments to objects have ...
Conversion Disorder: Where Mental Pain Becomes Physical
27 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Conversion Disorder (DSM V- Somatoform Disorder) is nearly 60% of all medical conditions that enter the doctor's office for treatment. All of this is ...
Surviving Trauma
20 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Truama happens every day with big life threatening events to little ones. Depending on the person, the reaction to having your life be out-of-control ...
Psychopaths: The Mind of a Killer
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Psychopaths have been around since the inception of mankind. We constantly challenge ourselves with the question of why they kill. This show will answ...
Redefining Divorce: A Peaceful and Budgetable Approach
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Redefining Divorce is a flat fee concept that Attorney Zina Gleason has created. She has teamed up with therapists, mediators and herself as an attorn...
Indecisive Crazy-Makers
29 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Indecisive Crazy-Makers make up a huge majority of people in this world. They are insecure, incomplete people who have little character or clue about ...
Cognitive Dissonance: What We REALLY Believe
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Cognitive Dissonance is the darker side of who we are. It is our Inner-Hypocrite that is rarely allowed to speak because our beliefs would be so contr...
Recovering Widow-er
15 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Becoming a widow(er) is a life changing event that happens to nearly all people who marry or remain in long term relationships. To fall in love, make ...
Psychology of Indentity Politics Radicalizing America
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For many years the media has brainwashed the globe by establishing hypothetical identity politics in order to label any person by attaching their perc...
Alternatives to Mental Health Medications
25 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There are some highly effective alternatives to Mental Health medications. Especially around depression, anxiety and many other stressed based disorde...
The Need for Gratitude
18 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Gratitude is the most magnetic human quality we share. However, to be negative and critical is what the vast majority of people in this world focus on...
Opioid Addiction
11 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Opioid (a form of heroin) addition is taking off like wildfire all over the world. Doctors often introduce opioids when they perscribe them as a pain ...
Cliques: Human Pack Animals
28 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Cliques have been around since the inception of humankind. There are harmless cliques and cliques that destroy people of all ages sense of identity. T...
The Need for Closure
21 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The need for closure is an issue that many people are obsessed with when something happens to them they do not fully understand. This drive to have an...
Suddenly Disabled
14 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
To become suddenly disabled is one of the most traumatic events any human can endure both physically and emotionally. There are physical disabilities ...
Rape
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rape is experienced by people of all genders, ages, gender identity and sexual preferences. Statics are not clear because so many people don't report ...
Cult Psychology
23 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Cults are a problem to societies all around the world. With this show I will break out how to define a cult, how they work, their techniques and goals...
Oppositional Defiance and Conduct Disorder
16 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With a child that defies adult authority, hits, kicks, steals, starts fires, you have a very stressed out life. Where and how these disorders get thei...
Human Trafficking, Prostitutes and their Customers
09 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The oldest profession sadly still exists in this day. This episode explores how human trafficking and prostitution are conducted. I will expose the ty...
Hysteria, Media and Delusional People
02 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Like the Salem Witch trials, hysteria has struck our nation fueled by the media and the delusional people who believe it. Since nearly the beginning o...
Forensic Psychology and Killer Profiles
26 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Forensic psychology and criminal profiling are two modern means by which local and Federal law enforcement find criminals. In our killer profiles we w...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
19 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder -PTSD- is a silent killer of quality of life, family, jobs, relationships and sometimes the people themselves who have ...
Parenting 101
12 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Parenting in this day and age is deeply complicated and requires enormous energy and communication. Living in a digital life along with juggling jobs,...
Pedophiles, Child Molestation and Rape
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Child molestation turns into all kinds of horrible scars mentally and physically for many of its victims. Issues of grief, shame, fear, guilt, body im...
The Narcissist
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The world is full of narcissistic personalities. Deeply insecure and unable to form healthy relationships, the narcissist demands loyalty through fear...
Fear of Failure
21 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Fear of failure consumes the life of nearly 25% of all people in the world. It is a depressed lifestyle that stops the enjoyment of life in all areas....
Control Freaks
07 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Control Freaks are among us everywhere in the world. You can not escape them, so you have to learn how to adapt to them. From work to relationships we...
The Power of Positive Communication
31 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Positive communication done consistently will rewire your brain out of depression and impact your span of influence broadly. The world is starved for ...