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What Are the Signs Your Mental Health is Decompensating?

What Are the Signs Your Mental Health is Decompensating?

Posted by | Nov 3, 2017 | , |

Having a diagnosis in mental health, such as, Borderline Personality Disorder, a person would be aware of the areas in which their response to stress is weaker, areas such as a sensitivity to rejection and perceived abandonment. Likewise, for someone diagnosed with Panic Disorder, perhaps being in a crowded place would be a trigger.  Knowing this about oneself ahead of time allows one the opportunity to compensate, by making use of helpful coping mechanisms.   Decompensation, is what happens when your usual ways of coping are no longer working, and your symptoms worsen, indicating a decline in your mental...

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Teaching Emotional Regulation to Our Kids

Teaching Emotional Regulation to Our Kids

Posted by | Oct 19, 2017 | , |

Self-soothing and emotional self-regulation are not born within us nor come automatically later in life. Children are completely dependent upon external sources for their soothing and regulating.  Things like pacifiers, blankets, stuffed animals are used before they can develop the internal skills. Since the ability to self-regulate is not possible, they need others to co-regulate their emotions, i.e., like how a mother rocks/bounces a baby or sings to it.   As children progress in age, emotions become bigger and they still have very limited ability to those parts of the brain that help regulate and rationalize emotions (left brain...

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Anxiety Is Like a Thief . . .

Anxiety Is Like a Thief . . .

Posted by | Oct 10, 2017 | , |

Anxiety is a natural response that occurs in our body to alert us to danger.  It is the flight, fight or freeze response that comes from the most primal part of our brain which is geared for survival.  Anxiety in itself, is not a bad thing.  It is a necessary function.  However, the anxiety that most people hear of today has a bad rap – This anxiety exists when legitimate thoughts, and feelings of dread, worry, and fear, last long after the ‘threat’ is gone. It can also be accompanied with unpleasant physical body sensations such as sweating, or...

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Combat Distorted Thinking With Mindfulness

Combat Distorted Thinking With Mindfulness

Posted by | Sep 30, 2017 | , , |

Distorted thinking can be defined as any reasoning process that distorts reality. These silent conversations in the mind – self talk, can reveal the various forms of distorted thinking you use by taking notice of specific words or phrases present in your thoughts or speech. Mindfulness is a skill that involves being able to obtain an honest self-awareness. An awareness of your thoughts and being able to courageously confront them; recognizing where they may be flawed and how they may be damaging to you and your relationships. Often, what prevents us from progressing in recovery and resolving our emotional...

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Lies My Mental Illness Told Me

Lies My Mental Illness Told Me

Posted by | Sep 5, 2017 | , |

Like every belief we hold, we will find ways to prove it to be true––consciously and/or unconsciously. If we are not mindful, meaning aware, of the thoughts we have and what we are telling ourselves, these will rule over us and create such realities.  You will begin to find evidence that these beliefs are true without realizing that you have produced it.  You are the narrator of your story.  Belief systems are a powerful source for the things that manifest in our life.  Identifying these beliefs was core to my recovery from BPD.  in order to change my outside...

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