Mental Health Tips
What Meanings Do You Attach to Events?
It is possible to gain control over one’s thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and behavioral responses by noticing automatic reactions to various types of events. From years of repetition, the responses seem justified, but they are actually arbitrary choices. It…
Let It Go
Releasing negative beliefs, thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and conditions can be marvelously exhilarating! However, changing one aspect of your life (or many aspects) brings about other unexpected changes. Some might be welcome and others quite surprising. Methods of Letting…
Distorted Parental Patterns
Dr. Daniel Siegel describes several patterns of functional and dysfunctional parenting that establish later responses akin to PTSD. The first group is children who are fortunate enough to have secure relationships with responsive parents (about two-thirds). In these…
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What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Have you ever felt hopeless, like you are forever caught in a quagmire of mental spins that lead you nowhere, except to unhappiness and more hopelessness? Do you find yourself acquiring more and more labels for the various…
How can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Help?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a type of psychosocial therapy that assumes the individual seeking treatment has maladaptive, or counterproductive, thinking patterns, which in turn cause maladaptive behavior and “negative” emotions. This type of therapy involves education, skill-building, and…
Moment-by-Moment Mindfulness
CBT clinicians have found that techniques drawn from centuries-old Eastern philosophies are helpful in quieting an overactive mind. A deliberate combination of breathing, meditation, and acceptance of a situation greatly quiets a person, often leading to much improved…
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Where Do Our Children Get Those Behaviors?
One realizes intuitively the moment the question is asked that behaviors, even difficult or challenging ones, are learned. Johnny doesn’t come out of the womb prepared to have a tantrum in the toy store. Little by little, the…
What Meanings Do You Attach to Events?
It is possible to gain control over one’s thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and behavioral responses by noticing automatic reactions to various types of events. From years of repetition, the responses seem justified, but they are actually arbitrary choices. It…
What Is Depression?
According to Barsky and Deans, authors of Stop Being Your Symptoms and Start Being Yourself, depression is the experience of feeling sad for two weeks or longer with an accompanying loss of interest in life around…