Joseph CascianiGeropsychologist, Consultant, Public Speaking, Freelance · Podcast Host of the Living to 100 Club | Clinical Strategies for Senior Residential Settings & Lifestyle Directors | Geropsychologist | Keynote Speaker

A Prescription for Happiness Written by Katie Wee, Wellness Leader

5 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this spoken testimony, the speaker recounts a harrowing four‑year criminal court case that sought justice against an abuser, which culminated in a mistrial before eventually leading to a conviction years later. The legal ordeal coincided with a divorce and precipitated a severe decline in mental health, moving from deep depression to intense anxiety and destabilization. Faced with doubts about achieving a happy, successful life, the speaker turned to extensive reading, self‑education, and therapy. Through this process they realized they must become the creator of their own fate, adopting a mindset shift supported by psychological insights and therapeutic tools to begin healing and rebuilding their life.

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just pursuing my own emotional healing, I was also involved in a court case bringing the man who abused me to justice, which took 4 years with the criminal justice system. And it was a nightmare, you know, it was— Yeah, Texas tall. It was, it was, it was a tough— And then after coming out of that period of time, had gotten divorced during that period of time, the court case had ended in a mistrial and then later became a conviction a few years after that. My mental health went from struggling to deeply depressed to deeply depressed and highly anxious to just anxious with bouts of depression to feeling very destabilized and just like, how am I going to have a successful, happy life? Like, how is that going to be possible? And I started doing lots of reading, learning, growing, and in that process came to understand that I had to be the creator of my own fate, that I was going to be the one that was going to need to change my mindset around that. I had all the information psychology and therapy was going to give me for the time being.