Dr. Gary Bell's Absurd Psychology

Financial issues (especially long term) are one of the top issues relationships and families break apart. When people live paycheck to paycheck they are vulnerable to any and every unpredicted event that requires finances to dig themselves out. Whether it is fixing their old Hoopty (car), credit card spending or losing their job. Life is hard as it is, but having your main means of survival to be at risk, puts people on edge and at their worst. Tune in and learn the psychology of how finances effect our mental stability!

At some point in our lives, many of us end up with neighbors from Hell. If it be noise, trash, smelly food, dog poop, party animals, fighting, drinking, etc...This causes enormous emotional and mental damage on anyone. It might even takes years off your life. This show is about how to deal with them and how to heal yourself. We will take the high road, road in-between and the low road as the ultimate may of taking care of the situation. Tune in and learn how to get your life and home back!

Parenting can be so challenging in the day and age where technology grows faster than our emotional development. Are are children are little marketing tools to be ideas with ideas, behaviors and values that they see on the internet, television or radio by any given program. In our fast, two parents (or worse one) busy lifestyle, keeping up with this can be overwhelming to the point of giving up. This program is about establishing patterns of parenting that, if consistent, will imbed your children with what you believe sets the pace for their adult life. Tune in and learn! It might be easier than you thought!

A family is dysfunctional if they regularly experience conflict, misbehavior, or abuse in a way that causes some members of the family to accommodate such inappropriate actions. Dysfunctional families are often the result of one overtly abusive parent and one codependent parent who turns a blind eye to the misbehavior. Dysfunctional parents may learn their behavior from their own parents.Sometimes children grow up in these families believing that the situation is normal. Tune in and learn how to work through it all!

Millennials are, arguably, the most reviled generation in recent history, and tons of consultants are working to decipher them. Called the Trophy Generation, notorious for receiving prizes simply for showing up, they are thought to be entitled, narcissistic, self-promotional, coddled, opinionated, whiny, and needy, especially at work (when they're not complaining about unemployment, that is). They seek constant feedback and immediate gratification. They multitask and can't focus. They're sensitive to criticism and unable to work alone. They refuse to pay their dues. Don't even mention their (limited) verbal and writing skills. Enough with the negativity. Let's dig a little deeper and learn about the Millennial brain. Tune in!!!

A paraphilia is a condition in which a person's sexual arousal and gratification depend on fantasizing about and engaging in sexual behavior that is atypical and extreme. A paraphilia can revolve around a particular object (children, animals, underwear) or around a particular act (inflicting pain, exposing oneself). Most paraphilias are far more common in men than in women. The focus of a paraphilia is usually very specific and unchanging.Tune in and learn about these freaky attractions!

Mind games are often subconscious patterns people use to get what they want. Most of these games are learned in childhood and often become assimilated as automatic defense mechanisms. In addition, people who are controlling often subconsciously seek out people who are most responsive to their mind games as a sense of attraction and friendship.This episode is about unpacking those games, learn how to respond to them and extinguish them from your life. Tune in and learn!

Every day, we are met with intuitions that appear to provide the answers to questions in our lives. We step outside on a sunny day, and a nagging feeling in our gut urges us to go back in and fetch our umbrella. We watch the big fight and develop a powerful hunch early in the contest that the hometown boxer will prevail. Within 60 seconds of interviewing a candidate, we just know, beyond a shadow of a doubt — she’s the one.

While the common wisdom is that we should “trust our gut,” smart decision makers know it can’t be that simple. Surely there are times when intuition guides us accurately, and other times when it leads us astray. But how are we to tell the difference? In order to answer that question, we need to, first, demystify intuition and understand precisely how it works. We’ll learn that the process that delivers these gut feelings to us, while on the surface appearing simple and crude, is quite complex and sophisticated. Tune in and learn about this powerful human tool!

Depression and Anxiety can become you. Over 70% of people with Depression also suffer from Anxiety and vice versa. Both will stop you in your tracks and gradually (sometimes immediately) destroy your soul. They turn your decision making into emotional reactiveness. This lack of control puts you into an insecure state where you feel vulnerable and afraid. You are either Depressed because you are anxious or anxious because you are depressed. They feed on one another. This show is about climbing out of both and taking control of your life. Getting back to living and connecting with the world, rather than coping. Tune in and let's take charge of them both!

The philosopher Richard Rorty talks about people’s “final vocabulary” words and phrases we use when we’re done wondering about something. Will, Faith and Trust can be the most influential thoughts, actions and beliefs a person can have. If the fundamental premise of all our thoughts came through these words on a consistent, if not automatic, process, then our lives would thrive. Dreams would come to life, creativity would thrive and we as people would evolve to a higher form of being. Tune in and learn how to change your thinking!