Dr. Gary Bell's Absurd Psychology
Episodes
Living a Suicidal Life
24 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A suicidal life is a life where one is unspeakably committing suicide by their habits, addictions and choices. For some it may be as simple as how the...
The Schizophrenic Mind
17 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Schizophrenia itself effects 1% of the population of the world. Many are in prison and on our streets everywhere. Some are lucky enough to live in adu...
Big Secrets: How to Reveal and Embrace all of You
10 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Secrets can be deep and hurtful. They infect your integrity and require enormous energy and sophisticated coping skills to continuously hide your true...
Making Memories: Life's Purpose
03 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Memories are the only thing we leave behind in this life that last. However, only if we make them meaningful to the people we love. In order to do tha...
The Influence of Smell
24 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Smell can change a person's impression in an instant. From being a calming factor to the most agitated and disgusted. The laws of attraction are deepl...
Givers and Pleasers: Running on Empty
17 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Givers and Pleasers fill their lives with people who they train to have their needs come before the Giver on an ongoing and expected basis. Givers and...
Paranoia: Living with Insecurity
10 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Paranoia can be a way of life or state of mind. It can be a symptom of a much bigger diagnosis or stand alone an completely disrupt your life. Living ...
Teen Sex: Whip It Good
03 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Teenage sex is a very complicated situation for teens and their parents. Bottom line, if you have no income, home, means of transportation and a solid...
Marriage Communication
27 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Marriage communication is very different then regular communication. In life we use many of the same tools, but the consistent obligation to be respon...
Humanism: To Be Humane
20 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Humanism is both a philosophy and way of life. Instead of living under religious doctrine. Humanism is about living for each other. Life is to have pu...
Social Influence: How Much of Me is Me
13 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The human race is one of the most social creatures in the world. We bond together in clicks, cultures, races, religions, parties, nations and organiza...
All About Cutters and Self Injury
06 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
People who self injure most often have one thing in common...the need to avoid emotional pain. Self Injury has been a part of the human race for thous...
Trump vs. Hillary: The Aftermath
30 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
2016 has been one of the most stressful election seasons in the history of our country. Change is hard for many people and having faith in an elected ...
Multiple Personalities
23 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Multiple personalities has thousands of years of history in the existence of mankind. Usually caused by harsh abuse or major trauma in childhood, this...
Cartoon characters: The Mentally Ill
16 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For decades we have watched cartoons laughing, dramatic, and seemingly mindless. Mellow drama in our superheros and loony tunes. We will diagnose and ...
Sexless Marriage
09 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sexless Marriage arrives in many ways, shapes, forms and fashion. The statics are astonishing. The definition of a sexless marriage is couples who hav...
Social Media and Relationships
02 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The creation of Facebook turned our society upside down. Combined with Twitter, Snap Chat and all the other means of communication, people don't even ...
Multiple Marriages
18 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Multiple marriages are as common as a Facebook page. Sadly, people's desire to be never satisfied, fully commit, desire to learn how to be married is ...
Children in the Middle: Divorce Abuse
11 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
You never know who you married until you divorce them. Sadly, people who have bred and had children, often decide that they can't be adults and talk s...
Loneliness
04 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Loneliness is a very complex emotion. People can be married, in a relationship, surrounded by people that love and care about them and feel lonely and...
How Stress Kills
28 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It is common sense that stress leads to nearly every serious major health event in our lives. Cancer, heart disease, flu, diabetes, addiction and the ...
Psychotic Minds of Predators
21 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the history of mankind, we are one of the few species who actually preys on our own. The weak, young, old, vulnerable, naive and ignorant a...
Life without Prejudice
14 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world without prejudice. Someday it will be, to some degree, as we move towards one global economy. We will explore the roots of prejudice a...
Abusive Relationships
07 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Abuse in relationships are passed down in families generation after generation. Sadly, many times it goes unacknowledged or the victims are blamed. On...
Gender Identity
30 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Gender Identity is a lifetime struggle when you were born one gender but completely feel like you are the other. Millions of people around the world i...
Hypochondria and Neurotic
23 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
To be married to or be a hypochondriac or a neurotic person can literally suck the life out of you. To not have insurance with a hypochondriac can cos...
Conflict Avoidance
16 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Conflict avoidance is one of the key identifiers that a person has not transcended into adult life. Relationships, employment, raising children and an...
Facing Unemployment
09 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Unemployment looms over anyone who works for someone else. The almighty dollar is king and people are the means to more, if it is thought you are not ...
Bi-Polar or Borderline Personality
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Bi-Polar and Borderline Personality Disorder have so much in common. They both create chaos in everyone's life they touch, especially when untreated. ...
What Makes People Attractive
26 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Facial similarities, body shape, feelings, attitudes, scents, communication styles, energy, sexual presence, flaws and all kinds of complicated featur...
Difficult Children
19 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Raising children on it's own is the most difficult job in the world, but having a difficult child can push any parent to utter insanity. Difficult chi...
Cross Cultural Relationships
12 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Cross Cultural Relationships can be highly complex. Forming a relationship with someone of a different culture can be highly enchanting. Then one disc...
The Power of Pornography
05 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Pornography has fueled the sex drives of the human race for 10,000 years or more. Some cultures have prided themselves on it's role in their everyday ...
Transitioning from Child to Adult
29 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The transition to adulthood for many children can be challenging for them and their entire family. What we once thought was an adult at 18 years old i...
Finding Mr. or Mrs. Right
22 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Less than 10% of all people in long term relationships claim they have found their most suitable partner. Most are gigantic compromises with poor comm...
Self-Sabotage: The Idiot Within
15 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Self-Sabotage is something all of us do at some point in our lives. Some people do it purposely and others as a subconscious way of life. Self-Sabotag...
Addiction
08 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Abuse and Addiction effect more 18% of the people on our planet, not to mention the people impacted by their lives. Alcohol, drugs, prescription drugs...
Using Philosophy To Make Life Better
01 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
From Humanism to Dialectic reasoning, philosophy is the holding grounds of many perspectives and universal truths that align with our very nature and ...
Co-Dependency: To Be or Not To Be?
17 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Co-Dependency is a struggle for the entire human population. Like dogs, co-dependents happily look past the habitual tragic life's of people they love...
Adoption
10 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Adoption of children can be a very complex issue for both the adopted children and their new parents. We will do a deep dive into how the process work...
Adrenaline Junkies
03 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Adrenaline junkies are everywhere. They are never satisfied with the simple risk of driving a mile an hour over the speed limit. Their life is one dea...
Impulsive Adults and ADHD
27 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Impulsiveness can destroy a person's life in a heart beat. Anywhere from committing a crime, gambling your home away to quitting your job without plan...
Phobias
20 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Phobias are experienced by nearly 4 million Americans. Highly treatable, though many choose to suffer with them their entire lives. From Social Phobia...
Sports Psychology and Psychotic Sports Parents
13 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sports Psychology is a fairly young field, but is growing like a wildfire. The reason is that it is effective in helping athletes and teams be mentall...
Get a Life
06 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
So many people journey through life without direction, passion, desire or concern for purpose. Sadly, mediocre is all some strive for. The evolution o...
Fear of Attachment and Loneliness
29 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Fear of attachment and loneliness are some of the deepest struggles many people have. Often times the things that cause attachment issues are subconsc...
The Aftermath of Molestation and Rape
22 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Molestation and Rape take place in the childhood of more than 65% of the population of the world. Amazingly, many of these people pull their lives bac...
Body Image: The Sagging Truth
15 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Our Body Image can effect everything from our self-esteem, sexual prowess, social interactions, health, limitations on what to do with our children an...
Overcoming Insecurities
08 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Insecurity operates some peoples lives and in parts of the rest. It is utterly a life lived in fear. People who suffer from chronic anxiety, depressio...
Parenting Your Inner Child
01 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Inner Child refers to periods of our life where we felt fear and things were out of control. These periods stick with us through the coping skills...
Moving On: Your Next Chapter of Life
25 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Moving on is one of the most difficult emotional life choices we are forced to make. It takes incredible fortitude to move on, let go and continue our...
Evolutionary Psychology: Our Primal Self
11 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the cultivation of mankind over millions of years there are primal instincts, genes and learned behavior which remains in our functioning l...
The End of Guilt and Shame
04 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Guilt and Shame have been the pervasive motivators of our human existence. They are the most meaningful tools of all religion, parenting, social rules...
Change Thoughts, Change Life
19 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Changing how we think is a life long challenge. We are so influenced by the conditions that we were raised, that often time people can not break free ...
Emotional IQ
12 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Emotional IQ is often forgotten in regards to measuring a person's ability to function and communicate. Emotional IQ is how we read people and learn h...
Marriage 101
05 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Marriage is the one thing over 93% of all people will do in their lives. However, it is not taught in school and the models provided by our parents ar...
Living with Your Everyday Psychotic and Manic
29 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Psychotics and Manics come in many flavors. Anyone who has lived a small span of years has likely lived with one or had to deal with one for an extens...
Setting Boundaries: Claiming Your Life
22 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Setting boundaries is the one thing all of us must do to establish our presence in this life. Without boundaries, we are nothing. No character, no res...
How to Change Your Life Now with Special Guest Scott Hay
15 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
JournalLife.com is an online organization designed to help you reclaim your life and get those New Year's Resolutions back on track. Scott Hay, Life C...
Gay Life: From Grimm's Fairys, Tinkerbelles to Chapstick Lesbians
08 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This is an exploration into the world of Gay life. Though many of us are not Gay, we interact daily with Gay life in all shapes and manners. I will be...
Living an Honest Life
18 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Honesty is something that eludes many people. All people lie. How they lie and to the degree they lie is the measuring stick of their personal integri...
Co-Parenting Made Easy
11 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Divorce is in the majority with over 56% of the humans in the free world. Children are the true victims of their parent's choices. Many of their paren...
Depression
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Clinical depression is pervasive in over 18% of our world population. It is genetic, environmental and a thought disorder that is the most easy to man...
A Lesson in Psychological Theory
20 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
So many people who need therapy choose the path of self-help. Arm chair psychologists live among us and within us. I have decided to do a show just fo...
Life with Autism
13 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Autism is a disorder that has mystified the medical and mental health community alike. There is no real understanding of how it manifests, but this co...
Hollywood Childhood with special guest Nels Van Patten
06 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in Hollywood is not a life for a child that we all imagine. Nels Van Patten (son of Dick Van Patten) will take us through the romantic imag...
Creating Laughter in Life with special guest Yakov Smirnoff
23 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready to have your mind blown! Laughter, like music, is a universal language. There is no better relief of stress and restoring a a healthy mind t...
Low Self Esteem
16 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Low self esteem is suffered by the vast majority of the human population. Whether it be around body image, race, gender, culture, education or a milli...
Psychopaths, Narcissists, Borderline Personalities and other Friendly Psychotic People
09 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is designed to identify, reveal and help cope with the various psychotic people we have to interact with on a daily basis. They walk amon...
Paranormal Psychology: special guest Loyd Auerbach
02 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This episode will explore how our daily lives have interacted with Paranormal Activity, Ghosts, Hauntings and even Poltergeists from the beginning of ...
Trust and Betrayal
25 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In life, we all must endure a gauntlet of trust and betrayal violations. These violations can turn a normal healthy relationship into a psychotic chap...
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
18 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The need for obsessive compulsive behavior has given civilization a great advantage in the areas of science, math, house cleaning, health and even fac...
Bullies and Buttholes
11 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The world is full of bullies and butt-holes. The real issue is how to deal with them when you can't avoid them. So many of our children are subjected ...
Who Am I? How do I make room in my life for me?
04 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
As we grow older and take on more responsibilities, our personal needs begin to quickly slide away. They are replaced by children, money, jobs, family...
Family Chaos: Elderly Care
28 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dealing with the role reversal of being the decision maker for your parents and elderly can be a life changer for all involved. The fact that the elde...
Failure to Launch: Adult Children Living at Home
21 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Over 3.3 million Adult children remain or have returned to their parent's home. This complex situation can create enormous stressors for both the pare...
Overcoming an Affair
14 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Affairs can be physical, emotional, deep, unending and almost always secretive. They are the most hurtful and destructive thing anyone can do to commi...
Forgiveness
07 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Forgiveness is such a beautiful word, but so few in this world are truly capable of giving it. Many live their lives harboring a mountain full of bitt...
How to Fix Your Fat Ass
31 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Obesity is at epidemic levels in most evolved countries around the world. People are eating their way into death, loss of self and quality of life. Fa...
Growing Apart: What the Hell Happened?
24 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Growing Apart happens to nearly every relationship. However, growing back together does not. The real victims are the children, if the relationship ha...
Inter-racial Relationships: Mix and Match Colors
17 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We will dive deep into the world of couples who marry partners of different races, cultures and values. This show is explosive! We all are interracial...
Children of Divorce: The Silent Majority
10 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Divorce is detrimental to every person involved. However, as parents choose to move on children carry the scars of divorce the rest of their lives. Th...
Psychic Psychology: Energy Skills for Life Relationships
26 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The universe is made up of energy. We humans emit all kinds of energy as way to communicate subconsciously with each other. I am fortunate to be joine...
Molestation: Into the Darkness
19 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Molestation is the single most common form of child abuse there is. It happens each day, in each moment of our lives, all over the world. The continuo...
Nasty Teenagers: An Owner's Manual
12 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you are a parent, step parent, grandparent, uncle or aunt, you will at some point have to deal with a nasty teenager. By nature, all teenagers...
Mind-Body Connection: One of them is usually overcommunicating
05 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The Mind-Body connection is what keeps us in balance. When we are going through health issues with our body, the attitude and perception of the health...
Anger Management: How to Stop the Raging Bull
29 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Anger is just an emotion. Emotional Intelligence is required to manage it. Some people have ZERO to a toddlers Emotional Intelligence. It must be mana...
Mid-Life Crisis: Going Rogue
22 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
If you think getting caught masturbating as a kid is embarrassing, try witnessing someone trapped in their Mid-Life Crisis. Suddenly, without anyone s...
ABUSE RELATIONSHIP: You Can Cut His Balls off but it Won't Shut His Mouth
15 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Abusive relationships have been a worldwide epidemic since the dawn of man. In the day and age we are in, people have created all new ingenious ways t...
DATING : Alcohol, Sex, Lies-over promise, never see each other again, STD, Baby Mama and REPEAT
08 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is an absolutely crazy and candid journey into the ludicrous world of dating. We will span the ages looking at how people meet, first dat...
Secret Lives: Living the Dream
01 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Over 63% of our US population admit to having or had secret lives. Those secret lives run anywhere from fulfilling kinky sex cravings, having affairs,...
Special Encore Presentation: Childhood Mental Issues: Prozac Moments
15 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Children with mental issues will push any parent to absolute hysteria. Raising a normal child is hard enough. I will cover as broad a spectrum of chil...
Suicide, Death and Grieving: The Art of Living Miserably
08 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Suicide, Death and Grieving are issues nearly every individual will come in contact in their life. I am taking a sharp and direct approach to challeng...
Wellness: Life, Emotions, Workplace and Relationships
25 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Wellness has everything to do with how we conduct our lives, are mindful of our health and manage stress. Dr. Nancy Bohl-Penrod is my special guest di...
Personality Disorders: Can't You Find a UFO to Haul Your Ass Back Home?
18 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Walking among us are millions of functional people with jobs, families and relatively normal lives, but leave a shadow of destruction and chaos everyw...
Critical Incident Stress: Will the Event Define You or You the Event
11 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Critical Incident Stress is trauma that is so overpowering it is beyond our ability to cope. We have nothing that has prepared us to face its aftermat...
Divorce and Step-Parenting: The Joy of Thankless Living
04 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
With the Divorce rate rising well above 64%, the prospect of having to go through a world of trauma is likely. Also, the prospect of having to deal wi...
Childhood Mental Issues: Prozac Moments
28 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Children with mental issues will push any parent to absolute hysteria. Raising a normal child is hard enough. I will cover as broad a spectrum of chil...
SEX in Relationships: How To Keep It Up
21 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Committed relationships and SEX can be the only thing people enjoy together, is the same every time OR completely non-existent. Lets face it, as we ge...
Organizational Development: The Potential Within
14 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The days of retirement, benefits and a job you will work your whole life are gone. Employer loyalty is a thing of the past. No employer wants to pay r...