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Willingness vs Willfulness
In DBT, in the distress tolerance module, there is a concept of willingness versus willfulness. I find this concept particularly important and akin to the being right (willfulness) vs being effective (willingness) concept. Here is some information about willingness versus willfulness: WILLINGNESS Cultivate a WILLING response to each situation Willingness is doing just what is effective in each situation, in an unpretentious way. Willingness is listening very carefully to your WISE MIND, acting from your inner self and your deepest core values. Willingness is becoming aware of your connection to the universe and to the person you are interacting with. Willingness engenders listening and mentalizing. Ask yourself, in 5 years…
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Act Fast! I have been given 1 coupon code for a free DBT iPhone app
Are you in DBT? Do you want to know more about it? The creator of the new DBT iPhone application has graciously provided me with a coupon code for a free version of the app. If you’d like to receive this coupon code and want to download the app to your iPhone for free, please send me a direct message on twitter @bondobbs. I only have one, so I expect it to go fast. UPDATE: You can also claim this code by commenting on this post and providing your email address (which is not shared). I will email you the code and instructions if you have problems redeeming it. UPDATE…
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Personality Type Might Help Identify Teens at Suicide Risk
Q-factor analysis of adolescents who have attempted suicide may shed light on personality subtypes of attempters. Personality Type Might Help Identify Teens at Suicide Risk Leslie Sinclair Q-factor analysis of adolescents who have attempted suicide may shed light on personality subtypes of attempters. Studies of adolescents who have attempted suicide usually focus on identifying how they differ from their nonsuicidal peers. Researchers at Emory University, however, have begun to identify how adolescents who attempt suicide differ from one another. Their work adds to previous studies that have reported personality subtypes within samples of adult suicide attempters and completers. “Overall, assessing adolescents’ risk of suicide attempt should include not only a…
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Amy Winehouse and BPD
One of my twitter followers posted the original Daily Star article about Amy Winehouse and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Of course, I’d had Amy on my Celebrities with Possible BPD list for many years. If you want to read all of my articles about Amy Winehouse click here. I have no idea why the title includes ‘Mental Illness’ in quotes. Maybe it was because they were quoting the relative or maybe it brings up the question as to whether BPD is an actual mental illness. Here is the text of the article (and my comments below): TRAGIC AMY WINEHOUSE HAD ‘MENTAL ILLNESS’ TROUBLED Amy Winehouse suffered from an undiagnosed mental…
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Research on Temper Tantrums
Children’s temper tantrums are widely seen as many things: the cause of profound helplessness among parents; a source of dread for airline passengers stuck next to a young family; a nightmare for teachers. But until recently, they had not been considered a legitimate subject for science. Now research suggests that, beneath all the screams and kicking and shouting, lies a phenomenon that is entirely amenable to scientific dissection. Tantrums turn out to have a pattern and rhythm to them. Once understood, researchers say, this pattern can help parents, teachers and even hapless bystanders respond more effectively to temper tantrums — and help clinicians tell the difference between ordinary tantrums, which…
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Media Reports the Amy Winehouse may have had Borderline Personality Disorder
Well, duh. I had Amy Winehouse (RIP) at the top of my Celebrities with Possible BPD list for almost 4 years. Now the news media is reporting the possibility. Amy Winehouse May Have Had a Mental Illness Posted by Roberta Seldon on December 5, 2011 4:23 AM Amy Winehouse may have been suffering from an obscure mental illness that ultimately led to her untimely demise, according to a report from the Daily Star. According to the Star, Winehouse may have been suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder — a condition that leaves the individual emotionally volatile, with feelings of anger, guilt, shame and emptiness, thereby pushing him or her into eating…