#gabor mate

[menalez]

#israel #palestine #gabor mate

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Most of what we call personality is not a fixed set of traits, only a coping mechanism a person acquired in childhood.

Gabor Mate

#gabor mate #mate #quotes #philosophy #wisdom #life #literature #writer #books #psychology #write #art #artist #idea #ideas #personality #coping mechanisms

[tuliplips]

Gabor Maté, When The Body Says No

#gabor mate #when the body says no #stress and chronic illness

[bloghrexach]

🤔 … “Esteemed physician, author, and speaker, Dr. Gabor Maté, commemorates his 80th birthday on January 6, 2024, marking eight decades of profound contributions to medicine, psychology, and holistic healing.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944, Maté's journey unfolded with a commitment to understanding the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit in health and wellness. Immigrating to Canada as a child set the stage for a life dedicated to compassionate care and advocacy.

Mate recently opened up about being a young Holocaust survivor in his interviews which center around seeing empathy for the Palestinian victims of Israeli policies.” … 🤔

@hrexach

#dr rex equality news information education #graphic source #graphic #graphics #hortyrex © #horty #quote #it is what it is #gabor mate #gaza genocide #Palestine

[maaarine]

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Gabor Maté, 2022)

“There is nothing radical about the idea that certain personality traits can pose risks for illness; in fact, it is a restatement in modern scientific terms of insights that date far back. (…)

Whether a person exhibits one, a few, or every one of these features, they all, each in their own way, speak to self-suppression and/or repression. 

I have found them not only present but prominent among people with all manner of chronic illnesses, from cancer to autoimmune disease to persistent skin conditions, through a gamut of maladies including migraine headaches, fibromyalgia, endometriosis, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, and many others. 

In no particular order, these traits are 

an automatic and compulsive concern for the emotional needs of others, while ignoring one’s own; 

rigid identification with social role, duty, and responsibility (which is closely related to the next point); 

overdriven, externally focused multitasking hyper-responsibility, based on the conviction that one must justify one’s existence by doing and giving; 

repression of healthy, self-protective aggression and anger; 

and harboring and compulsively acting out two beliefs: “I am responsible for how other people feel” and “I must never disappoint anyone.”

These characteristics have nothing to do with will or conscious choice. 

No one wakes up in the morning and decides, “Today I’ll put the needs of the whole world foremost, disregarding my own,” or “I can’t wait to stuff down my anger and frustration and put on a happy face instead.” 

Nor is anyone born with such traits: if you’ve ever met a newborn infant, you know they have zero compunction about expressing their feelings, nor do they think twice before crying lest they inconvenience someone else. 

The reasons these habits of personality, as we might call them, develop and grow to prominence in some people are both fascinating and sobering. 

At root they are coping patterns, adaptations originally formed to preserve something essential and nonnegotiable. 

Why these features and their striking prevalence in the personalities of chronically ill people are so often overlooked—or missed entirely—goes to the heart of our theme: they are among the most normalized ways of being in this culture. 

Normalized how? Largely by being regarded as admirable strengths rather than potential liabilities.”

#gabor mate #the myth of normal #book

[workersolidarity]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 🚨 HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR GABOR MATÉ SLAMS ISRAELI OCCUPATION, CALLS OUT THE TERROR IMPOSED ON PALESTINIANS IN THE NAME OF ZIONISM

"Pierce, you have to go see for yourself as I have, and you would cry everyday for two weeks as well," Gabor Maté, a Holocaust survivor, told Pierce Morgan in a recent interview.

"I'm not justifying the terrible events of October the 7th. I'm talking in the absence of historical awareness, it all just looks like Israel defending itself, but against whom?"

"Against the population that [it] has been massacring in a number of thousands for 80 years, and taking their lands, and destroying their homes and jailing their children, and torturing them. That's the history."

"Now unless we know that, it all looks like this poor little country trying to defend itself, but against whom?"

"Against people it has been occupying and displacing for 80 years. That's the history, as Israeli historians have shown. I don't make this stuff up. I wish it wasn't true. I wish I could believe in the dream of the Jewish State. I love that dream."

"Except I found out at what price, at what nightmare that imposed on the Palestinians."

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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[wordsofwisdomandsoul]

#feeling better #feelings #feel #let yourself feel #quotes #words #wisdom #life lessons #inspirational words #philosophy of life #life quotes #growth #healing #self knowledge #gabor maté #gabor mate

[shisasan]

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

Dr. Gabor Maté

#gabor maté #quotes #pain #mental health #gabor mate #quote #conciousness #mindfulness #psychology #trauma #anxiety #depression #q

[eco-situationism]

#gabor maté #gabor mate #quote #anti capitalism #situationism

[pinktwingirl]

So I’ve been getting a lot of remarks from people saying that me pointing out that the mainstream media is biased towards Israel and Zionism is somehow “antisemitic” because it’s a “dog whistle” for the bigoted conspiracy theory that “the media is controlled by Jews.” To which my response is: NO. IT’S. FUCKING. NOT. Even if you yourself are not a Zionist, you are still repeating Zionist propaganda by saying this. The fact that the mainstream media is biased is not a “conspiracy”; that is objectively the truth. That is not just my assessment; that is the assessment of MANY people, including both Palestinian and Jewish scholars alike. In fact, many of the people I’ve watched and listened to on this topic are Jewish and Holocaust survivors themselves, including Dr. Gabor Mate (highly, HIGHLY recommend his videos btw). The media is UNDENIABLY biased towards covering up Israel’s war crimes and painting anyone who speaks out against Israel as an antisemite, and a LOT of people are being hurt as a consequence. People are losing their jobs and livelihoods simply for saying that genocide is bad. People in Gaza are being sniped during this so-called “truce” for just trying to go back to their homes. Doctors are having to operate on children without anesthesia because they have no supplies, and no one with any power is willing to help them. And yet every major news station is either not reporting on it at all or basically saying “well too bad, that’s just war.”You CANNOT expect me to look at this situation and not point out how fucked up this is. Now, is it true that there are people who will use this as an excuse to be antisemitic? Yes. Am I one of those people? Of course not. I have said time and time again that the reason for the bias is US capitalists and war profiteers protecting their own interests, not Jewish people. If people still continue to look at that and cry that “Jewish people are controlling the media,” then I am not responsible for their stupidity (but for the record anyone who tries to come onto my blog with that shit is getting banned on sight). I am responsible for what I say; I am not responsible for how people choose to interpret what I say. Of course, being someone who is not Jewish themselves, I acknowledge that I am obviously not the most qualified person to determine what is or isn’t antisemitic and I want people to tell me if I say something offensive or insensitive. But I am not going to put up with being labeled antisemitic simply for demanding that the mainstream media do their fucking jobs and tell the truth.

#palestine #israel #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #antisemitism #anti capitalism #gabor mate #anti zionisim #stand with palestine

[zen-garden-gnome]

"The people that criticize Israel do so with a lot of pain in their hearts. They actually want justice, and they want justice for everybody. They criticize Israel not because its Jewish, but because of what it does. And what it does has been called recently by 2,000 Israeli and Jewish academics and rabbis and historians, apartheid. What it does has been called by the former deputy chief of Israeli Defense Staff, similar to the situation of Jews in Nazi Germany. This is an Israeli soldier who said that, not an anti-Semite. And he said that just as the Nazi thugs could attack Jews with impunity and even with the support of the police, so can settlers in the occupied territories attack, kill, destroy Palestinian property, murder even children. And when the Palestinians fight back, the army shows up to support the settlers. So a lot of people who are not in the least racist one way or the other have genuinely come to rue and lament and oppose the actions of the Israeli state. And as a Jew, I'm one of them. And when a Jew speaks up... If you're a pro-Zionist who fully believes that Jewishness is identifiable with Zionism in Israel, then naturally you'll think that anyone who criticizes Israel is either an anti-Semite or a self-hating Jew. But that perception is a product of your belief that the Jewishness is identified with Israel. Whereas if you look at it historically, there were many Jews all along who criticized the Zionist movement, and who pointed out the potential dangers, and who warned what's going to happen. [...] There were 500 Jews that were arrested in Washington a few days ago for protesting. It's such a painful situation, and there's such suffering. Recently, Israel has suffered in a way it hasn't suffered before, and that's to be lamented. The people there need to be supported because they're having a hard time. There are many Israeli homeless right now because of the threats. And I know from Israeli friends of mine that Israeli mental health services are overwhelmed. That is true. It also has to be acknowledged, that when it comes to the scale of suffering imposed by one party on the other... there's barely any comparison. Historically speaking, the number of deaths, the imprisonments, the suffering, the deprivation, has been the prerogative of the stronger party. I'm not speaking morally here. I'm speaking practically. I'm not seeking to justify anything. I'm saying, do we want to move forward to peace, or do we just want to harbor our emotions? We're entitled to our emotions, but when we're emotional and only emotional, our perspective narrows, and we get defensive. We get consumed by self defense, and [we] attack. Understandable, but that doesn't lead to peace. What leads to peace is a willingness to understand the experience of the other, and for us to be guided by the parts of our brain that are adult. That happens in the mid-frontal cortex, where empathy, insight, compassion, self-awareness are modulated. So we need to deal with our emotions -- not to repress them, not to reject them -- but also not let them be the guides of our actions. Especially when those emotions are conditioned by a view of history that for the most part excludes the experience of the other." (The interviews goes on. Fantastic list of books and other speakers in the description, too.)

#gabor mate #palestine #israel #gaza #Youtube

[soulinkpoetry]

We’re not really broken. We just haven’t reached that wholeness that lies underneath.

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#daily psychology #gabor mate #brokenness #thoughts #feelings #dig deep

[woundgallery]

There is a wisdom in trauma when we realize that our traumatic responses and imprints are not ourselves and that we can work them through and, thus, become ourselves.

Dr Gabor Maté from “The Wisdom of Trauma”

#gabor mate #trauma #cptsd #complex ptsd #psychology #project #ptsd #mental health #film #words

[safije]

girl get a life, and stop thinking zionists(jews) control everything the world. You make it seem like we are the villains for just believing in 1 jewish state ,and going back to our roots because as you can very clearly see the world is not very kind when it comes to jews when we live anywhere but israel. And the moment we go back to Israel because we have had enough of the antismetism it's "get back you're occupying " how dare you. blah blah blah. Just say you want us dead it's easier than beating around the bush.

"Just say you want us dead it's easier than beating around the bush." See that's where you guys get the mistake, assuming that we are all as genocidal as you are. You have this kill or be killed mentality when it doesn't have to be like that.

Do you consider the Jewish people who don't agree with you and Holocaust survivor Gabor Maté anti-semites too?

#Is this the same person who sent me asks before or do u all just sound exactly the same? #anti semitic #Answered #Palestine #Israel #gabor mate #anti semitism

[wordsofwisdomandsoul]

#changing #transformation #quotes #words #life lessons #wisdom #inspirational words #growth #gabor maté #gabor mate #compassion #empathy

[shisasan]

It’s not the circumstances that are keeping you stuck, it’s the way you are looking at them.

Daniel Maté

#boom #!! #reminder #daniel mate #quote #trauma #healing #mental health #self care #self love #psychology #gabor mate #consciousness #quotes #anxiety #depression #health #mindfulness #q #fav