Jun

26

I have recently read a very inspiring book by Dr. Belnap, A Brain Gone Wrong - help for troubled teen.

I have noticed that on Meridian Magazine there is a series of articles about this book and I will refer to them for more information at the end of this blog post.

But this is the starting point of the book:

The twenty-first century faces a war with no name and no marked battleground. The casualties are our youth. They come from every address and ability and they are being squandered in what was once considered the lifestyle of only a degraded few.

Our feel-good culture, eroded by bad behavior, bad choices, and for many teens a succession of very bad days has drugs, alcohol, suicide, eating disorders, violence and the occult just a quick step from the corner lemonade stand. Some youth survive the onslaught; many do not.

Today’s youth face a society with blurred lines of right and wrong and in many cases, no wrong at all. Teens are raised amid decay in families, schools and the streets on which they live or roam. Gangs have stepped in to fill the void of family; media, fashion, peer pressure and popularity now dictate what were once decisions made at the kitchen table. The scenes are ugly, scarred and riddled with pain. Youth are forced to live beyond their years and to make decisions not even contemplated by their parents: Do I drink? Take meth? Smoke? Use birth control? Join a gang? Bring a gun to school or even stay in school? Do I distinguish myself by the way I dress, tattoos, the color of my hair? Or my sexual preferences? Should I consider suicide because my life is sad and hopeless?

It is hard to be a teenagers in our current society, and it is not easy to be the parent of teenagers, but still the family is where they can find the best opportunities to survive the war.

A Brain Gone Wrong - on Meridian Magazine

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven

Part Eight

Aug

31

In the last week or so I have been reading a very interesting book about forgiveness. I don’t even know if that book is still published, but it was written by Charles R. Hobbs, and it is titled “The healing power of forgivenss”.

It is worth reading, not only for those people who have serious issues of forgiveness but also for “normal” people since nobody is completely exempted from grievances against someone else and all of us need to learn the “art of forgiving.”

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