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To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved
Psychologists also are studying other ways people might be able to reduce procrastination, such as better emotion-regulation strategies and visions of the future self. To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved Time management goes only so far; the emotional reasons for delay must also be addressed By SHIRLEY S. WANG Updated Aug. 31, 2015 11:44 p.m. ET Putting off a work or school assignment in order to play video games or water the plants might seem like nothing more serious than poor time-management. But researchers say chronic procrastination is an emotional strategy for dealing with stress, and it can lead to significant issues in relationships, jobs, finances and…
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Ignore Your Feelings
We certainly share a lot with DBT, a kind of CBT for people who have intensely destructive feelings—dialectic behavioral therapy. Particularly because it started out with the idea that it was directly for people who were suffering terribly. Ignore Your Feelings A profanity-filled new self-help book argues that life is kind of terrible, so you should value your actions over your emotions. OLGA KHAZAN SEP 9, 2015 Put down the talking stick. Stop fruitlessly seeking “closure” with your peevish co-worker. And please, don’t bother telling your spouse how annoying you find their tongue-clicking habit—sometimes honesty is less like a breath of fresh air and more like a fart. That’s the…
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I have borderline personality disorder. Here are 6 things I wish people understood.
They think people with BPD will kill you, or burn down your house, or stalk you until you need to file a restraining order. We lie, we manipulate; we’re “difficult” and “treatment-resistant.” People think we’re crazy, in the classical sense of the term. I have borderline personality disorder. Here are 6 things I wish people understood. by Eliza Hecht on September 25, 2015 “You don’t seem like you have borderline personality disorder,” people often say to me. They mean it as a compliment. I don’t fit into their idea of what borderline personality disorder looks like. They think people with BPD will kill you, or burn down your house, or…
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Her brain tormented her, and doctors could not understand why
The young woman — and her family — were exhausted and confused by the barrage of treatments and medications. How were they supposed to cope with her nightmarish outbursts, her self-mutilation and suicide attempts, her destructive behavior? Her brain tormented her, and doctors could not understand why By Aleszu Bajak September 14 at 2:38 PM “I hate myself, and my brain,” Pam Tusiani wrote in her journal while under 24-hour watch on the fourth-floor psychiatric ward of Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital. “Nothing is worse than this disease.” When Tusiani wrote those words in 1998, doctors had little understanding of the disorder that was troubling her, and all these years later…
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What it’s like to live with Borderline Personality Disorder
These external acts are based in self-loathing or self-hatred and feelings that you are not good enough. You feel this so deeply that you can’t control your actions. What it’s like to live with Borderline Personality Disorder Meet Sonia Neale. She’s 45. The recipient of SANE Australia’s inaugural 2014 Barbara Hocking Fellowship. And a sufferer of Borderline Personality Disorder. by Michael Sheather Aug 27, 2015 BPD is a personality disorder of extreme emotions. When you have somebody criticize you or judge you or say something about you, it triggers a response that is simple horrendous and over the top. It might be shouting or anger and resentment in terms of…
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How Borderline Personality Disorder Put an End to My Party Days (#BPD)
The negative emotions I have are immobilizing. They crash over me like huge waves, knocking the wind out of me and forcing me underwater. How Borderline Personality Disorder Put an End to My Party Days August 10, 2015 by Harriet Williamson In the summer of 2010, just before I turned 19 and in my first year of university, I attempted suicide with a month’s supply of my antidepressants and ended up in intensive care, breathing on a machine. By my second year, my good-time friends had had enough of me. I was no longer invited out, and became very isolated and increasingly unhappy. I got into an abusive relationship and…