Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, is a type of psychotherapy that promotes acceptance and change of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to manage and reduce mental health problems. Mindful… Read More
Sometimes the world of psychological therapy can seem like a complex, tangled web. Such therapies include, but are not limited to: psychodynamic (or psychoanalytic) psychotherapy, cognitive… Read More
The UK Science Minister recently announced a series of research programmes from the Newton Fund worth up to £80 million to address global challenges affecting people in India; this fun… Read More
You probably have a picture in mind of someone who’s depressed: they can’t get out of bed, stay in their pajamas all day, and can’t stop crying. But you definitely don&rsqu… Read More
When you’ve been troubled by the same problems for years and previous therapy hasn’t been very helpful, don’t give up hope. It might just be time to consider a new form of… Read More
Some teens struggle with the day to day. For a young person who feels somehow unprepared, confused, or unworthy, the world can be a scary place. That’s where DBT can make all the diffe… Read More
Perhaps you found yourself dealing with some emotional vulnerability and ate too much comfort food and it still didn’t comfort. You may have raged at those you loved most or pushe… Read More
What are you living with? Anxiety? Depression? Something that you can’t name but feel deeply every day? Does it keep you from resting well at night? Has it been a long time? Are you re… Read More
Have you ever felt as though your emotions are at a breaking point? Have you ever been in an emotional crisis and did not know how to handle the situation? Do you ever think “I wish I… Read More
The Other Eleven Months of the Year
-Non-Fiction by Andrea Rosenhaft –
I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) in 1991 at thirty years-old, following my second… Read More
I read a few of my early blog posts this morning.
Some of them I wrote just days after getting out of the hospital.
There is a lot of uncertainty in these early posts. I am feelin… Read More
There are so many more things I could be doing right now.
How can I decide? That is what I am working on currently. It should make me happy, glad, excited to be wanted by others… Read More
The frustrating majority of American males and females have actually experienced at the very least one terrible event in their lifetime. Of those, almost 10% of women and 4% of male… Read More
I promise to tell my new Doctor the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Going into my doctor’s office and putting on my concealed depression face results in me no… Read More
It has been months since I opened my WRAP® PLAN workbook.
There have been so many things competing for my time, that I let my own needs, my personal self-care slip to the side. I… Read More
As the prospects of a vaccine are increasing around the world, the world governments are preparing for the imminent release of a vaccine. Amidst the pandemic, the global efforts to control t… Read More
Drive-By Truckers By Mike O'Cull Legendary indie rockers Drive-By Truckers drop their second album of 2020, the topical and of-the-moment The New OK. Released by ATO Records, the set is ava… Read More
Most therapists currently use cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT for short, as a treatment for their patients. But, what principle underlies cognitive behavioral therapy?
The basic prin… Read More
Mental health counseling can help you cope with several conditions when you struggle with your mental well-being. However, you should not only seek therapy for mental health issues, but you… Read More
People often misunderstand therapy due to some entirely misplaced social stigma around the practice.
Thankfully, in today’s world, therapy is becoming a more widely recognized outle… Read More
All kinds of people struggle with mental health issues. Still, when it comes to the LGBT+ community, higher rates of discrimination prevent people with these identities from receiving the he… Read More