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Accumulating positives can build happiness
Her model promotes learning and practicing skills that help people tolerate distress, regulate their emotions and negotiate relationships effectively. Accumulating positives can build happiness POSTED: WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2015 4:30 AM Sound Mind / By Deidre Ashley When we think about mental health there tends to be a lot of focus on solving problems or reducing symptoms of depression or anxiety. We work on taking care of ourselves by getting the proper amount of sleep and exercise, eating right, taking medications, reducing conflict and reducing stress to ease uncomfortable symptoms. If your partner snores and is keeping you up at night get a pair of comfortable ear plugs for sleeping…
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Being Mindful of Emotion to Validate Self and Others
Kelly Koerner, PhD – Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The State of the Art and Science – April 2-3 Seattle, WA No related posts.
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NY Times: No Longer Wanting to Die
Before her patients could or would change, she saw, they needed to accept themselves, and to be accepted, exactly as they were in the present. No Longer Wanting to Die By WILL LIPPINCOTT MAY 16, 2015 2:30 PM In January 2012, two weeks after my discharge from a psychiatric hospital in Connecticut, I made a plan to die. My week in an acute care unit that had me on a suicide watch had not diminished my pain. Back in New York, I stormed out of my therapist’s office and declared I wouldn’t return to the treatment I’d dutifully followed for three decades. Nothing was working, so what was the point?…
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Fight Stigma: Facts about Borderline Personality Disorder
Myths about BPD abound. Part of fighting the stigma is to know the facts. Bon: From one of my favorite sources – Karen Hall’s Emotionally Sensitive Person blog. Fight Stigma: Facts about Borderline Personality Disorder By Karyn Hall, PhD May is Borderline Personality Awareness Month. To fight the stigma that is so difficult for individuals with mental illness and particularly for individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), I encourage you to learn more about the disorder. Stigma can be devastating to individuals who are already struggling with intensely painful emotions and a fear of not belonging or fitting in. Stigma also can stop individuals from getting the help that is…
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Personality Disorders Largely Being Treated Inappropriately by Psychiatrists
The easiest choice is to focus on pharmacologic therapy for target symptoms rather than the personality disorder as a whole. Personality Disorders Largely Being Treated Inappropriately by Psychiatrists May 6, 2015 Psychiatrists are giving drugs to most people with emotionally unstable personality disorders outside of the best-practice clinical guidelines, according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. And an accompanying editorial stated that the reason is because “therapy takes time.” The researchers performed a cross-sectional survey of self-selected psychiatric services, and found that of 2,600 patients with a diagnosis of personality disorder, more than two-thirds (68%) had a diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD). Nearly all of…
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The Linehan Institute to Recognize Those Who Have Made Significant Contributions to Fight the Stigma of Mental Illness and Provide Services to Those in Need
800,000 people die by suicide worldwide every year. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) reduces suicide attempts by half. The Linehan Institute to Recognize Those Who Have Made Significant Contributions to Fight the Stigma of Mental Illness and Provide Services to Those in Need The Linehan Institute Award Benefit will be held at the Midtown Loft, NY on May 20, 2015. 800,000 people die by suicide worldwide every year. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) reduces suicide attempts by half. The Linehan Institute Award Benefit honors those who have made significant contributions to improve access to treatment and reduce stigma for those who suffer from severe and complex mental disorders. Funds raised at the…
