Trilemas : El método para no perder equilibrio vital

Mental health is a transient and fragile state. Throughout his long career in psychiatric practice, Jesús J. de la Gándara has observed that, faced with anguish and loss of control, abstract or pompous medical explanations prove ineffective. What truly helps patients is having simple, resonant, and easily automatized mental anchors. This is how the "trilemmas" that give this book its title came about: sets of three words or concepts that function like the three legs of a stool, guaranteeing stability on the most uneven surfaces of existence. Throughout these pages, the author unpacks a catalog of vital tripods designed to confront contemporary hardship. He teaches us the "Trilemma of Effectiveness" (for a life change to work, it must be Authentic, Feasible, and Repeatable); he helps us diagnose when a discomfort has become a clinical condition using the S.I.N. trilemma. (when we accumulate suffering, disabilities, and the feeling that "nothing" makes sense), to guide us toward the necessary state of C.O.N. (Control, Order, and Normality). It also dismantles our tendency toward alarmism and hypochondria by teaching us to rationally distinguish between mere data, real problems, and genuine catastrophes, or by using the metaphor of the three A's of firefighters (Alert, Alarm, Action) to deactivate the short circuits of panic and anticipatory anxiety.