Taransvar is a Norwegian charity dedicated to provide the best mental health care. Modern science shows what is wrong with mental care system. We want to make sure that future generations get better treatment.
"The Mental Sanctuary is a metaphor for a specially designed place that exists only in your imagination. Think of that place as your personal fortress — a safe haven that you can “enter” at any time to recreate any feeling or mental state.
Taransvar is a Norwegian non-profit organization that aims to build the best model for recovering from mental health problems.
We all know that getting away after a stressful week is relieving. With a simple program that includes some teaching, therapy and good activities in a good environment dominated by care and trust, all the other mental problems can also be handled. It should be no surprise that a resort is the best place for this. Always when the brain is involved, it’s about finding some good way and then repeat that until it becomes the natural reaction. That’s how bad habits and destructive thinking evolves and that’s how to establish better thinking.
But....it may be impossible to do on your own. Let us know if you need help.
A "Mental Sanctuary" is a place in our mind. This means that we can find peace anywhere. Taransvar is helping small groups establishing anywhere. It can also become a good business because those who have already fixed their own problems are the best therapists - if they are given basic guidance.
Contact us if you want to know more.
A good mental health is all about finding a good focus. And then keep it until til dominates our personality. One major obstacle is triggers that may pull us back into the black hole.
You can run this process alone or with family or good friends. But there are ways to make it easier. We are spacializing in finding the best way.
Our "current state of mind" is stored in our synapses - the connections between the nerve cells. This is what we know as "warming up" or "getting focused". Focus gives "synaptic plasticity" - our brain changes. This goes for athlets but unfortunately also for all destructive behaviour. However, when we know this, we can also find ways to change.
Some things deserve our focus. We may be responsible in job, family or toward friends. Then it's important that we focus on this. Other things may not deserve out focus - at least not as much as it does. But we're not able to let it go. Our treatment focus on both: Both on letting the destructive go and establish good focus. Many are able to do this themselves, but it's easier in a group that motivate each others to manage this together.
Many mental problem may be categorized as "mentale prosjects" that we are not willing to let go.
The ability to learn is a fundamental function of the brain. Exposure therapy means that you expose yourself to an unpleasant situation. The aim is to make people realize that the situation was not as bad as they had thought. In terms of learning, this does not differ from all other types of learning. Practice makes perfect. Pugging and terping help. Sometimes many repetitions are needed before it fits. You may be able to do this yourself. If it is too difficult, then you should seek help from professionals at the start.
When it comes to all types of training, a lot sits between the ears. It goes without saying that this also applies to mental training. We are happy to assist with this.
Some thoughts are destructive. But is it right? Is it important? Does it bring any good? Does it have to happen now or do we need a break? Something we have to accept. Something changes when we change the way we think about it. We can't change everything, but we can decide what meaning we attach to it. If you need help, we are happy to talk to you about this.
Cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) provides, in our opinion, a very good explanation of how we think. They say that we have two parallel decision-making systems in the brain. One is an intuitive, fast, automatic and experience-based system. When we see a person, we automatically react based on our experience with this person or with others. But we also have another decision-making system that is slower, rational and cognitive. We can then practice overriding the automatic system by practicing thinking differently. Eventually, thoughts, feelings and actions based on the cognitive will take over as the experiences that control the automaticity. This is what you do, for example, when training soldiers or in sports. Exposure therapy is also a clear example of this. Unfortunately, this is also what you do when you brood over a trauma or otherwise learn destructive behaviour. It is therefore important that you seek help immediately if you are stuck in destructive thought patterns.
You don't need to know anything about how the brain works. You can choose to believe us that it is important to maintain a good focus in life and to train on what you want life to be filled with. It applies as much to "mental disciplines" as to physical ones. You can train depression, good facial expressions, love or empathy. Practice makes perfect and the brain is malleable, so it's never too late.
Many are forced into a destructive focus, for example through violence or other trauma. This will lead to destructive "skills" such as anxiety, PTSD or other. Many also experience neglect, which means that they do not learn the "good" skills that will make them resilient against later trauma. Regardless of the starting point, you can always make good choices or seek help. We are here for you if you need someone to talk to.
So how does the brain work?
The vast majority of the body's organs are controlled either directly or indirectly by the central nervous system. The parts of the central nervous system that actively participate in decision-making and signal transmission can be characterized as:
Synapses are fluid-filled gaps between nerve cells in the brain. "Everyone" agrees that the synapses here are central to how we think. The main effect of all psychofarmaca is to affect the synapses. The synapses are also affected by our focus. This is called synaptic plasticity and is quite temporary. If, for example, you are good at playing tricks with a football, then you still need a little "warming up" before it fits. By injecting drugs or medication through the bloodstream, we largely leave our focus to chance. This can reduce unpleasant thoughts, but to solve the problems we need focus and rational thinking. We therefore believe it is better to drop medicines and drugs and rather focus on establishing a constructive focus in life. Some manage this themselves, but it is easier if there are more of us standing together. Feel free to contact us to talk more about this.
A baby's brain is gray, while an adult's brain is white. It has been known for over 100 years that this is due to a white fat substance called myelin. Later research has shown that myelin makes nerve connections up to 100 times faster. This gets the credit for us being able to walk and talk. For us, it is also obvious that this plays a major role when it comes to all mental processes. Anxiety, depression, ADHD, obsessive-compulsive disorder and others can therefore be seen as destructive learned skills. Once you've learned to ride a bike, you can do it for the rest of your life. When you ride a bike, your brain is constantly working to keep your balance. But it happens so automatically that you don't even notice it. If you have learned to get drunk, the risk of a crack will always be there. But focus and the processes in the synapses make the difference between what is a bad memory from the past and problems that you are still living in the midst of.
Together with myelin (described above), the brain connections (the dentrites) form our abilities, talents, personality traits and so-called triggers. However, where myelin may play a major role in "fine-tuning," dendrites may play the major role in cognition. When you throw a ball, this is a fine-tuned synchronized activation of many muscles, which you can train for years to perfect. When you know that 8 * 8 = 64, then there is no point in putting more effort into it. The connection between "8 * 8" and "64" is established. Myelinated axons and dendrites play so closely together that it does not make much sense to separate them. The important thing is that we fill our brains with knowledge and skills that give us a good life. It's never too late to start the process. But it is much easier if you stand with others in the process. Get in touch if you want to discuss this with us.
Plasticity means "formability". The brain is malleable. Through our focus, we change the synapses. When we focus over time, this produces permanent changes. Some changes contribute to a good life, while others cause us problems. Practice makes perfect when it comes to both constructive and destructive skills. We have been given our cognitive skills so that we can learn to use them to manage our lives. If you see that things are going in the wrong direction, don't hesitate to ask for help.
Drugs affects the synapses in different ways. In addition to being harmful and dangerous, this also puts our ability to focus and think logically out of whack. You can say that intoxication is focus added through the blood. We have no influence on which areas of the brain this activates. Therefore, some become aggressive, some cry, some become happy and others fall asleep when they are affected. We have previously seen that focus over time produces permanent changes in the brain. It is a very bad idea to leave such permanent changes in the brain due to chance. If you have problems that you cannot solve yourself, it is much better to talk to us. It is not too late to start a good process.
To make it absolutely clear, we are ONLY talking here about psychotropic drugs, which affect the synapses. It is also very important that only your doctor or those you are referred to can give you advice on the use of such medicines. Many people want to taper off, but this must be done in consultation with a doctor because vital organs are controlled by the central nervous system.
However, we can say a little about what these medications. Medicatons are often marketed against anxiety, depression or sleep difficulties. However, there are no medicines that only work against these ailments. The medicines are distributed through the blood and are intended to reduce or stimulate brain activity. If you read about the active substances online, words like "re-uptake inhibitor" or "receptors" for different transmitter fluids will recur. However, these transmitter fluids are involved in many processes in the brain, not just those involved in the destructive. For a brain that is characterized by anxiety, the medicine will be able to work against anxiety. For a brain characterized by chess thoughts, the same medicine could make it impossible to play chess. We therefore believe it is better to fill your focus with something constructive and drop the use of drugs and such medications. Life is best if you let a good focus guide the future. This is particularly important if the starting point is difficult. Feel free to contact us if you need help with this.
There's hope!
The brain is a wonderful organ that has the ability to fix major psychological problems if we help with a constructive focus. For many, this seems completely impossible. Then we can help! Contact us for a non-binding conversation.
