Healing Deadly Emotions Anger-Anxiety-Addictiveness-Uncertainty & Depression (Paperback)
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Paperback. Healing Deadly Emotions-Anger-Anxiety-Addictiveness -Uncertainty & Depression- Fifteen Family Sessions, A New Path Beyond Traditional Treatments-Cyril Puhalla MD Why Fifteen Family Sessions?This book begins where many people quietly live: in a house where headaches, shouting, silence, screens, and secret tears pass for "normal." The family in these pages is fictional, but their pain is not.A father, crushed by responsibility and unrelenting stress, finds his headaches are no longer relieved by pills or standard counseling. A mother, worn down by depression and apathy, has drifted into addictive food and television as a refuge she both depends on and despises. Their teen son is seething with anger and confusion, flirting at the edges of violence and self-destruction. Their younger child is anxious and unsure, absorbing the emotional weather in their body like a frightened barometer.They are not "crazy." They are wounded and disconnected.The usual approaches-brief medication checks, one-on-one therapy, generalized advice, or "just think positive"-have not touched the root of their suffering. Nor have they found a home in traditional religious answers. They live in the gap many modern families know: they trust science, but science alone does not tell them how to live. They seek meaning, but cannot go back to beliefs that no longer fit. Five Deadly Emotions, Five Deadly PathsAt the center of this book are five "deadly emotions," each a form of suffering that, if left unattended, can tilt life toward catastrophic outcomes: Uncertainty (Ambivalence): "I don't know what to do, and I stop caring whether I decide."Anxiety: "Everything feels dangerous; my body never rests."Depression (Apathy): "Nothing matters anymore; I don't matter either."Addictiveness: "I will do anything to feel better now, even if it kills me later."Anger: "I want to punish, attack, or destroy-myself or someone else."These five states are not sins or character flaws. They are powerful energies. If they remain unseen, untreated, or acted out destructively, they can become pathways to five forms of preventable death: accident, psychosomatic collapse, suicide, overdose, and violence. Beyond Traditional TreatmentSeventeen Family Sessions is not an attack on medicine or on traditional psychotherapy. It is written by a physician who has practiced inside those systems and honors what they can do. But it is also an honest recognition: symptom-focused, time-limited, individually fragmented care does not fully address the moral and existential wounds beneath our deadly emotions.This book offers a new path beyond traditional treatment in three key ways: Family as Mini-Treatment CommunityHealing is not imagined as a private, individual task. The family becomes a "mini-sangha"-a small practice community-where each person is both wounded and potentially healing.Moral Injury and Existential Distress in the Center, Not the MarginsShame, guilt, self-doubt, loneliness, and loss of meaning are treated as core diagnostic targets, not as afterthoughts.The Pulse of Life vs. the Pulse of Death-Bound ChoicesInstead of asking only "How do we stop symptoms?", we ask: "How do we live by Connection, Compassion, and Moral Choice across four domains-Mind, Body, Others, and the Outside World-so that our daily choices lean toward life, not death?" This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Healing Deadly Emotions Anger-Anxiety-Addictiveness-Uncertainty & Depression (Paperback)
- Author
- Cyril Puhalla
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798278111702
Why Fifteen Family Sessions?
This book begins where many people quietly live: in a house where headaches, shouting, silence, screens, and secret tears pass for “normal.” The family in these pages is fictional, but their pain is not.
A father, crushed by responsibility and unrelenting stress, finds his headaches are no longer relieved by pills or standard counseling. A mother, worn down by depression and apathy, has drifted into addictive food and television as a refuge she both depends on and despises. Their teen son is seething with anger and confusion, flirting at the edges of violence and self-destruction. Their younger child is anxious and unsure, absorbing the emotional weather in their body like a frightened barometer.
They are not “crazy.” They are wounded and disconnected.
The usual approaches—brief medication checks, one-on-one therapy, generalized advice, or “just think positive”—have not touched the root of their suffering. Nor have they found a home in traditional religious answers. They live in the gap many modern families know: they trust science, but science alone does not tell them how to live. They seek meaning, but cannot go back to beliefs that no longer fit.
Five Deadly Emotions, Five Deadly Paths
At the center of this book are five “deadly emotions,” each a form of suffering that, if left unattended, can tilt life toward catastrophic outcomes:
- Uncertainty (Ambivalence): “I don’t know what to do, and I stop caring whether I decide.”
- Anxiety: “Everything feels dangerous; my body never rests.”
- Depression (Apathy): “Nothing matters anymore; I don’t matter either.”
- Addictiveness: “I will do anything to feel better now, even if it kills me later.”
- Anger: “I want to punish, attack, or destroy—myself or someone else.”
Beyond Traditional Treatment
Seventeen Family Sessions is not an attack on medicine or on traditional psychotherapy. It is written by a physician who has practiced inside those systems and honors what they can do. But it is also an honest recognition: symptom-focused, time-limited, individually fragmented care does not fully address the moral and existential wounds beneath our deadly emotions.
This book offers a new path beyond traditional treatment in three key ways:
- Family as Mini-Treatment Community
Healing is not imagined as a private, individual task. The family becomes a “mini-sangha”—a small practice community—where each person is both wounded and potentially healing. - Moral Injury and Existential Distress in the Center, Not the Margins
Shame, guilt, self-doubt, loneliness, and loss of meaning are treated as core diagnostic targets, not as afterthoughts. - The Pulse of Life vs. the Pulse of Death-Bound Choices
Instead of asking only “How do we stop symptoms?”, we ask: “How do we live by Connection, Compassion, and Moral Choice across four domains—Mind, Body, Others, and the Outside World—so that our daily choices lean toward life, not death?”
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