Video: Nice overview of DBT for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
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New York Times Reporter Ben Carey to Receive Award from The Linehan Institute at the Linehan Institute Award Benefit
Through the provision of compassionate and effective therapies, the many who suffer from complex mental disorders can have renewed lives. New York Times Reporter Ben Carey to Receive Award from The Linehan Institute at the Linehan Institute Award Benefit New York Times reporter and author Benedict Carey will be honored at the Linehan Institute Award Benefit at the Midtown Loft, NY on May 20, 2015. Since 2004, Benedict J. Carey has been science reporter for The New York Times, focusing on brain and behavior topics. That year among his many articles piquing the interest of readers on mental health topics, “With Toughness and Caring, a Novel Therapy Helps Tortured Souls”…
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Interventions Helpful In Preventing Suicide Attempts
Findings revealed that all three of the treatments made a significant difference in these women’s lives, reducing the severity of intentional self-injury, the number of suicide attempts and overall reason for living. Dialectical Behavior Therapy Interventions Helpful In Preventing Suicide Attempts Kathleen Lees First Posted: Mar 25, 2015 06:15 PM EDT New findings published in JAMA Psychiatry have shown that a variety of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) interventions have be found helpful in preventing suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury acts when reviewed in a randomized clinical trial of women who were dealing with a borderline personality disorder (BPD). Women who are suffering with BPD oftentimes have a heightened fear of…
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…
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…
You can tolerate frustration (even though it hurts)
Pain hurts. Frustration is painful. It’s bothersome but it is bound to be a part of life. Not getting what you want, or having what you like taken from you, not getting your way and the many other of life’s frustrations can make you suffer. Pain avoidance or the immediate cessation of frustration is one of life’s biggest motivators. Unfortunately, some of life’s frustrations don’t have an immediate remedy. Sometimes you have to live in a frustrating situation for a period of time. While you might start to believe “I can’t take it anymore,” I would encourage you to ask yourself, “Really? Can I not take it anymore?” Why do…
