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How to Get Through Crisis
Crisis response coping is crucial for individuals with poor emotion regulation How to Get Through Crisis By SARA STAGGS, LICSW, MPH ~ 2 min read Distress is a fact of life. It’s a wide range of triggers: it’s not always our turn, or we have bad luck, or we make a bad decision and have to suffer the consequences or we experience oppression and injustice and so on. How upsetting these different degrees of distress are depends not only on the magnitude of the event, it depends on us—the same event may be annoying to one person and catastrophic to another. Most of us have different ways of dealing with…
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Judgments – Mental Shortcuts, or Distortions in Reality?
Borderline personality disorder, a condition once considered “untreatable” by mental health professionals, can now effectively be managed with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Judgments – Mental Shortcuts, or Distortions in Reality? By Caroline Fleck He’s so smart; I’m chubby; she’s ugly; he’s bad for you; they’re perfect together – what do all of these statements have in common? They’re judgments; they reflect matters of opinion, not indisputable facts. That may not seem too terribly fascinating, or insightful, but bear with me. Because what is phenomenal, in my opinion, is the extent to which we allow our judgments to affect our decisions, mood, and functioning. The past 50 years alone have produced…