Bundaberg Mobile Counselling Service

16/02/2026

“Small steps taken consistently lead to big results. Keep going — you’re closer than you think.”

12/02/2026

I am all for pet therapy, however not quite what I would recommend.

08/02/2026

It is not always whom you expect doing the unexpected generosity.

A quiet act with massive impact.

Eminem and his daughter stepped in to erase nearly $700,000 in unpaid school lunch debt across 103 schools, ensuring thousands of children could eat without shame or punishment. For many families, the debt had been piling up quietly, creating stress and stigma around something as basic as lunch.

By covering the full amount, they removed an invisible burden that often falls hardest on kids who have no control over their circumstances.

05/02/2026

Laughter is the best medicine.

02/02/2026

In 1973, eight perfectly healthy people walked into psychiatric hospitals across the United States.
None of them were ill.
No one inside realized it. 🧠
This was not an accident.
It was an experiment designed by psychologist David Rosenhan to answer a disturbing question.
Can professionals reliably tell the difference between mental health and mental illness?
To find out, Rosenhan recruited eight ordinary people. A painter. A housewife. A pediatrician. A graduate student.
They lied about only one thing. They said they heard voices. Just three words. “Empty.” “Hollow.” “Thud.”
That was enough.
All eight were admitted.
The moment they entered the hospitals, they stopped pretending. They behaved normally. They cooperated. They asked to be discharged. 🚪
It never worked.
Every normal action was reinterpreted as a symptom.
Writing notes became obsessive behavior.
Waiting quietly became pathological attention seeking.
Politeness became controlled behavior consistent with illness.
Seven were diagnosed with schizophrenia.
One with manic depression.
Not a single staff member identified them as healthy.
But the patients did.
Real patients approached them and whispered, “You’re not like the others. You don’t belong here.”
Those considered ill saw what trained professionals could not.
The average stay was 19 days.
One person remained hospitalized for 52 days. ⏳
Each day reinforced the same truth. Once labeled, reality stopped mattering.
When Rosenhan published On Being Sane in Insane Places, the psychiatric world erupted. One hospital challenged him to send new pseudopatients, confident they would catch them.
Rosenhan agreed.
Over the next months, that hospital identified 41 supposed impostors.
Rosenhan had sent no one. Not a single person.
The conclusion was unavoidable.
Diagnosis was not always based on facts. It was shaped by context and expectation.
This experiment shattered blind trust in clinical labels and forced major changes in how mental illness is diagnosed and treated. But its deeper lesson still unsettles today.
Perception can distort reality more than madness itself.
And sometimes, the most dangerous illusion belongs to those who believe they cannot be wrong.

01/02/2026

Sigmund Freud: “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud's influential work introduced key concepts like the unconscious mind, the repressed idea, and the use of dream analysis and free association to understand human behavior and experience. He is regarded as one of the most significant and controversial intellectual figures of the 20th century.

29/01/2026

You may not be able to tell someone’s struggling just by looking at them. That’s why it’s important to ask with care, listen without judgement, and make space for real answers. A simple 'are you really OK?' might be just what they need 💛

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