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How to Get Better at Expressing Emotions
Extroverts tend to be better at talking about their feelings, but practice and attention can help those without a natural gift for it. How to Get Better at Expressing Emotions JULIE BECK The term “emotional intelligence” has now reigned for 20 years. Daniel Goleman’s 1995 book of the same name popularized the idea that the capacity to understand and wield emotional information is a crucial skill. Part of that is expressing emotions, be it through writing, body language, or talking with other people, and researchers are finding that unlatching the cage and letting those emotional birds fly free could have some real health benefits. Some studies have linked the repression…
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The Benefits of Getting Comfortable With Uncertainty
Wanting and not wanting the same thing at the same time is a baseline condition of human consciousness. The Benefits of Getting Comfortable With Uncertainty JULIE BECK Gary Noesner is a former FBI hostage negotiator. For part of the 51-day standoff outside the Branch Davidian religious compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993, he was the strategic coordinator for negotiations with the compound’s leader, David Koresh. This siege ended in infamous tragedy: The FBI launched a tear-gas attack on the compound, which burned to the ground, killing 76 people inside. But before Noesner was rotated out of his position as the siege’s head negotiator, he and his team secured the release…
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The Dangers of Getting Only One Point of View
Black-and-white rigidity is actually one of many symptoms of people with borderline personality disorder. The Dangers of Getting Only One Point of View by David Mills Experts say people who only seek out information that backs up their opinions may become angrier, less empathic, and unable to have meaningful relationships. On electoral maps, Democratic states are portrayed as blue. Republican states are represented by red. However, it appears the ardent supporters of both parties are only willing to see things in black and white. With the proliferation of websites, the availability of personal social media platforms, and the narrow specialization of cable television news networks, people in the United States…
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Personality disorder: Woman’s ‘suffocating’ illness
Overwhelming, suffocating and a rollercoaster of emotions Personality disorder: Woman’s ‘suffocating’ illness By Catherine Smyth Those are some of the words Felicity McKee from Armagh uses to describe living with a personality disorder. The 25-year-old social anthropology student at Queen’s University received the dual diagnosis of an eating disorder and what is known as Borderline Personality Disorder five years ago. She says that, while eating disorders are becoming better understood by the public and professionals, the stigma surrounding personality disorders remains a major issue. … Felicity says on bad days she can feel “completely overwhelmed”. “I become a blubbering mess and I am difficult to rationalize with, even though logically…
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Should You Tell Your Boss About Your Mental Health Condition?
She discloses to her employers that she has “vague” problems with her mental health, but hasn’t told them she has borderline personality disorder (BPD). Should You Tell Your Boss About Your Mental Health Condition? By Hannah Ewens Most people I know with an ongoing mental health condition haven’t told their employer about it. We’ll send one another memes about panic attacks and joke about periods of psychosis, but there’s no way we can be that casual in the workplace. In a fair world, employers wouldn’t judge you for having a condition, and anyone who has an illness would have access to some form of work—which often helps with self-esteem and…
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When bigotry invades mental healthcare: Women, sexual minorities are most vulnerable to harassment
From being slapped to being shamed, members of marginal communities have few places to seek help for mental illnesses. When bigotry invades mental healthcare: Women, sexual minorities are most vulnerable to harassment Prateek Sharma “I was talking about my nightmares to my therapist and while in the middle of that I accidentally told him that I am a bisexual and out of nowhere he just slapped me and asked me to go away. The incident did make me badly depressed, took a toll on my health and everything. I already have ADD and OCD and that’s what I was seeing the therapist for. So the depression just doubled from there…