2013

For me two thousand and thirteen was a complicated year, it was not a bad year but it was a year with a lot of thinking about the future.

The moment of finish my career is close and I must to think seriously about the future, and I don’t know exactly what i want to do in my future professionally. I have to decide soon what I am going to do as a psychologist, I know that I’m going to work in something related to the community or educational labor of a psychologist but I feel that there is a lot of things about the profession that I don’t know and I am afraid of take the wrong direction in my professional live.

In the past year I have thought a lot in my militancy and political activities and how much I give to this labor, sometimes in this year I thought that I give too much to the political labor and I leave behind a lot of other things in the professional and familiar areas and maybe that was a mistake. In the future I want to balance all the things that I do and will not only dedicate myself to one of them.

Two thousand and thirteen was a year for know myself in a better way, a year to think about what I have done in my life at my twenty years and what I want for my future, a year to know better about my own feelings and emotions, a year to know how I deal with different situations and how I can be better in the different aspects of my life. I am really happy to say that. 

food

I must to say that i really enjoy eat; I love the moment of preparing food. I really like to cook, it is a relaxing moment for me, when I am stressed or sad I put good music and i start to cook something delicious.

I was a vegetarian two years when I started college; the vegetarian life permitted me to know some food and ways to make food that I didn't know before. I left the vegetarian way of life because I felt that I didn't anything for the animal causes and didn't feel comfortable with that. Now I eat meat just in special occasion and just a little.

I like a lot the Chilean food, for me the Chilean food is related to family, to be in home and prepare food to eat together with my parents and brothers, and I enjoy a lot that moment. I always cook with my mom, it is a special mother and son moment for us, she teach me how to cook and now I feel that I am a really great cook.

When I was eighteen years old my great grandmother died. When I was a child I lived with her for three years, one of the memories that I have of that period is the delicious food she prepared, and specially a pea soup with the most special taste in earth, I never have eaten something similar in my life.

As you see food and cooking can be a special part of our lives.

Dreams

Dreams are a beautiful part of life; dreams can express all the things that we don’t dare to express in diary live. A lot of times dreams tell us about ourselves, about or thinking, about or fears, about our eroticism. It’s very important to me, and I think it should be importance for everybody, to give importance to our dreams and try to discover what they want to tell us.

In my dreams I usually see myself running in country or in a forest in a sunny day. I have always thought that this dream is a metaphor for my desire of total freedom. 

I must to say that I usually have nightmares too, always in the moment that I am falling sleep I start to dream with ugly and scary things that don’t leave me sleep good.  I believe that the problems that I have in my daily moments are responsible for this nightmares. 

I am a totally daydreamer, every day I dream about a different life, not only for my, for everybody in this world. I dream with a different society, a society where our humanity is more important that our money, a society without exploitation for the men by the men, a society where our decisions are taken according to our dreams, a society where all the people who lives in this world are conscious about the other who is in their side. I dream with the society of freedom.

I am sure that my dreams are possible; they just depend of us, and depend of our diary work and practice. The political power is in our own hand and we have to work together for change our lives.

The island beneath the sea

When I think about my reading habits, I must to say that I read for placer more when I was a kid than now, now I read more for obligation and that is sad.

My favorite book is called “the portrait of Dorian Gray”; it was written by Oscar Wilde a polemic and controversial artist on his time. The story on the portrait of Dorian Gray is very exciting, I read this book many times and every time I read it I discover something new and unexpected, the story on this book make me think about all the pleasures and risks that we have on life.

During the last summer, and is not the last book that I read, I read a book written by Isabel Allende called “the island beneath the sea”. The story is about the slavery in saint domingue or now Haiti, the principal character is Zarité, a black slave for a white family; the story moves forward on the fight for liberation of slavery by rebel slaves. There are a lot of moments in the book, moments of love, of sadness, of violence and others. Is interesting how the book shows the differences between the black and the white people. Shows the differences between the exploited and the exploitive, and how the white and black cultures involve themselves one in other in the actual culture. 

I really enjoyed reading this book, it´s take me about a week and I would recommend the book for everyone who wants to have an interesting and fun moment, besides Isabel Allende is always a good experience.

beyond the myths and stigma of mental illness

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/25/rd-laing-aaron-esterson-mental-illness

This article is about how the mental disease or mental disorders, in this case schizophrenia, has been diagnostics for decades without the contemplation of the family and social context.

The text try to go beyond the myths and stigma of mental illness, and talk about how the mental patients has been confined in mental institutions and has been obligated to take strong drugs as a unique treatment, even the article mention how the mental patients in some moments of history were seen as possessed persons.

The author tells us about how in some cases the mental disease is not only in the patient but as well in its family. It shows the case of patients that were diagnostics of schizophrenia without the consideration of their family context and finally there was the trouble, not only in the patient's but well in their parents.

It is a big problem in the diagnostics of mental health, is impossible to diagnostic a patient with a mental disorder just for its own problems, the professional has to consider how the familiar and social world in which one the patients live and is very important to consider how a psychiatric diagnostic can affect the lives of a patients and it family.

Finally we can not talk about mental disease just talking about biology; the mental diseases are associated to pathological families or sick societies. 

Anime

I must to say that i know just a little about anime.

I don’t really saw too much anime when I was a kid. Actually in my memory I can only remember two anime that I saw in my childhood and they were important to me. The first one and my favorite is Ranma ½, the story of this anime is too much interesting, the characters change their normal form if they have contact with water, in the specific case of ranma, he was a black hair boy who transform in a red hair girl when he touch hot water.

Another anime that I remember I saw in my childhood was Hunter X, I can remember that I saw this anime and I really liked it, I remember that every afternoon I was waiting in front of television for a new chapter of hunter X.  But when I think about the storyline of the anime I cant really remember it.

There are another anime stories that I remember as Mikami the ghost hunter, Sailor moon, Saint seiya or

doraemon. I saw all this anime and I love them, However when I became an adult person I never developed a passion for it, and I never saw anime again. 

The magic of Chili.

There are many places that i would like to visit in future; some of them are France, Greece, and Egypt. However I have always thought that before I will go anywhere out there I have to visit all the beautiful places in my own country. We always think about the fantastic places that exist in other countries and we forgot how many unimaginable places exist right here in chili.

Chili is full of enigmatic and diverse landscapes, places of extraordinary beauty and culture; we can find magic stories about the different attractive tourist. Just closing our eyes and imagining different regions of our country is an extraordinary experience. 

I would love to go to the north of Chili and being on San Pedro of Atacama and know its beautiful constructions; enjoy the magic of desert in flower. Travel across all the enigmatic landscapes in the center of the country; know the valley of Elqui, the historic Valparaiso city, the vineyards. Go to the south and walk on the green woods, visit all the beautiful lakes, know all the magic stories in Chiloe and being in the amazing ice of south.

I am very sure that I will go everywhere in chili and I will end my days living in one of the beautiful places of our country.