What Psychologists Don’t Talk About?

Can you open a newspaper without reading a lot of disturbing news?

Social media and mass media bring out sickening information; some are video-graphed.

Strangers, loved ones, and even children are being killed indiscriminately.

Should we still act as if everything is normal?

As psychologists, we are supposed to act as a doorway to society to prevent and overcome problems by telling people what is happening to their consciousness. Their consciousness has become toxic due to consciousness pollution and this is confounded by ‘“Conscious Capture”’ (one of the terms coined by me, to indicate the predominance of consciousness over our personality).

Towards a Clean Consciousness

There is a greater neglect of psychological issues that have been misinterpreted by the large masses, including mass media. Major issues in psychology have been misunderstood. This is an attempt to throw light on these issues.

Restoring mental health doesn’t mean that we just treat and counsel people only with psychological issues. Our basic duty is to ensure the restoration of mental health and hygiene so that one does not become mentally ill. The fact that mental disorders are increasing considerably day by day is proof that psychologists are not talking about some important aspects. I contend that instead of focusing on a small percentage of people with mental disorders, we should focus more on the largest percentage and make sure they don’t succumb to such ailments. That should be our primary role. We have the wherewithal for that but we are either unaware of it or reluctant to use it.

For example, there is so much hype that is created about how AI (Artificial Intelligence) can solve problems, but no psychologist has warned you that it is dangerous to the survival of society when only a handful of people have total control over how people think and act. Watch the most recent video to see how AI can get into innocent homes and ruin their livelihood and future.

When we don’t even know how to use natural intelligence (See ’Are we USING our INTELLIGENCE?’), what guarantee is there that only nice people will use AI and that their priority is the welfare of society?

Even without Artificial intelligence, people can be taken for a ride. The case, in question, happened recently when the term ‘social distance’ was used and when people were asked to work from home. You can manage, observe, monitor, or enforce physical distance, but not social distance. No one questioned the misuse of the term and the whole world even to this day uses the same term. A detailed treatise can be found here: ‘How can you use social media and maintain Social Distance?’

Another example is when ‘Password is Rejected and Nonsense is Accepted!’

History is replete with instances where millions of innocent people including women and children have been killed all over the world. Such genocides have happened due to the instigation of a handful of people with evil intentions. So, ‘Are we overselling Leadership?’ is a reminder psychologists should ask or talk about!

Masses, in general, are always gullible. Media is almost always used by a handful of people to strengthen public opinion.

However, people have no idea about what rational thinking is. It is the psychologists who teach thinking and they must have known the difference between rational and emotional thinking. (See ‘Is Thinking Necessary to Survive?’ to know how emotional thinking leads to reaction, stress, and anxiety). Psychologists are expected by society to use critical thinking but they, too, become gullible to emotional blackmail. They seem to prefer to remain socially acceptable rather than exercise their capability and training to warn the people of inherent dangers.

Teaching the subject, practicing, and doing research is one thing but applying the knowledge becomes more crucial.

For instance, we teach about learning theories and principles but rarely let people know how they have been indoctrinated (brainwashed), manipulated, and misled. We have lessons and practical exercises on prestige suggestion and despite knowing about these effects, we still don’t warn the masses about how they are taken for a ride. People have little capability to understand why a celebrity gets millions of rupees for a few seconds of endorsing an advertisement.

We, on the other hand, unfortunately, also become prey to these pressures and glorify success.

This is because of two reasons: as psychologists, we either don’t know what we are teaching or don’t care.

When a rich country with the largest economy in the world has poverty, drug dependency, unemployment, homelessness, physical and mental illness, road rage, loneliness, divorce, gun violence, crime, etc., there is something wrong with the systems and their functioning. All other countries try to emulate the United States of America and move towards modernization. They don’t realize that they too will end up in the same predicament.

Watch the video below to learn how psychologists don’t tell you about certain problems. We may blame politicians, policymakers, businesspersons, and others for this predicament but I feel psychologists also must inform people about such things happening around us and take measures to circumvent them.

Video: Homeless Population Explodes in Las Vegas – It’s Worse Than You Think!

With terrorists, cybercriminals, and confidence tricksters getting adept at psychological warfare, indoctrination, emotional blackmail, gaslighting, manipulation, doublecross, threatening, controlling, digital arrest, etc., I feel that psychologists have a major role in educating the masses.

My objective is not to belittle psychologists but to empower them. Rather than playing second fiddle to every other professional, psychologists can take up a greater leadership role by discussing life's reality. Being a psychologist myself, I am not against psychologists. They are doing wonderful work in their chosen specializations. However, I feel they can help others solve many psychosocial problems if they start talking about certain things.

As part of my “3C” initiative—the “Clean Consciousness Campaign,” let me take up this challenge and let everyone know what psychologists don’t talk about?

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What Psychologists Don’t Talk About Remembering?

Let me know if I am wrong. I have started this series because there are hundreds of things psychologists don’t talk about? I feel that it would benefit everyone if they did so. I hope at least now, they will make a beginning.

This is an attempt to bring to the fore what has been hidden for a very long time.

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