Hope
- David Forrest
- 3 days ago
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Hope
You are alive today
Because
You didn't kill yourself yesterday
Because
You have hope for tomorrow
Because
You are alive today...
(c) David Forrest, responding in a Clinical Session
Lichfield April 2024
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David Forrest: Gestaltuk
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There are numerous moments in clinical sessions that it is important to acknowledge the most ordinary of events. The need to emphasise what, for most of the time, seems ordinary and within the capacity of us all is because every ordinary event or task at some point was a learning experience that we were challenged to achieve. The challenge centres on the need to channel our energy towards the task or actvity. Developmentally this would be approached with excitement-energy; with a spontaneous desire for accomplishment. Unfortunately there is often too much anxiety related conditions that can prevent the excitement-energy of spontaneity from completing.
When anxiety spirals to depression and despair; towards withdrawal from living and the wish of suicide, there…