Psychic Mind: The Limits of Psychic Work

The Limits of Psychic Work by Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A.

As a practicing psychic consultant, I have at times overreached. Usually I did so inadvertently. A woman client had referred a male friend, a professional, to me for psychic counseling. He seemed a very nice man, quietly intelligent and low-keyed. The session went very well and the gentleman, and he was that, thanked me for the insights my channel provided. When the lady who referred him visited again, I asked about her friend. Oh, he committed suicide, she said. Carbon monoxide while sitting in his car inside a closed garage.

She then confided that the man suffered clinical depression. I hadn’t known that. I assumed he experienced normal unresolved inner conflicts that my process of psychic psychoanalysis might discover. I didn’t know that he was one who when seized by the deepest of blue funks had little or no control over his dark mood. Apparently psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists aren’t always successful in dealing with such mental disorders either. Drugs are the last resort, or the first choice by lazy therapists.

In another situation, a woman friend of mine remained close to her ex-husband. He also suffered clinical depression. The only hint I got was that he remained overly dependent on his aged mother who seemed a nice woman. They all, mother, son, ex-daughter-in-law and their son, lived together apart in the same house. It seemed an odd arrangement but it worked for them. The man was a successful journalist and writer, and the sexy girlfriend he had at the time seemed a lady any normal man would surely want to live for. But there came a day when he just couldn’t cope anymore and swallowed a bottle full of pills. What he thought his problem was I never knew.

Why does a depressive sink into a deep funk? Is it a matter of dysfunctional brain chemistry? Or early life trauma that I as a psychic analyst seeks to discover? Could it possibly have to do with past-life issues that psychoanalysts usually don’t deal with? If that were the case, the right kind of psychic might come in handy. It doesn’t seem that any professional knows just what the cause is, so psychiatrists prescribe drugs, mood elevators, anti-depressants, uppers, in hopes that clients might avoid the worst of their down moods.

Any professional dealing with mental issues ought to recognize his limits. An authentic psychic has areas of expertise that will be helpful in appropriate cases. The same is true for mental health specialists. But each of us, I contend, ought to recognize our limits and not pretend to be healers of all conditions that we attract.

Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A. Please see my website that includes books, blogs and psychic services at http://psychicconsultingbyemail.com. For more information about psychic readings my e-mail my address is psychicmind.vandervoort231@gmail.com