Individualized Clinical Treatment for Mental Health and Addiction Disorders
Your mental health impacts how you feel, think and behave in daily life. Additionally, it affects your skill to deal with stress, get over difficulties, engage, and recover from life’s challenges and hardships. Powerful mental health isn’t only the absence of mental health issues. Being emotionally or mentally healthy is a lot more than being …
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Prioritizing your mental health is one key to living a more fulfilling life. Apply these eight tips to actively improve your mental health and get more out of life. Create a mental health plan: All successful outcomes begin with a plan. Construct a proactive action plan to carve out an environment conducive to a healthy mindset. …
Why is it so hard to change a behaviour? What prevents us from eradicating a bad habit when we know the action is harmful to us? Behavioural psychologist James Prochaska breaks down the stages in which an addict is capable of enacting change into five categories; Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, and Maintenance. Determine where you …
Focus on the concepts of psychological maturity and psychological immaturity. In this next exercise, you will be asked to consider what these terms mean, and how it can be applied to you personally. How would you define the term psychological maturity? How would you define the term psychological immaturity? What kind of home environment encourages …
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Children who grow up in a psycho-traumatic environment develop borderline behaviour patterns that are driven by fear, anger, and incredible sadness. As these children grow into young adults, they seek out ways of coping with their intensive and unstable feelings and behaviour. Some will turn to “pleasure” addictions such as alcohol, drugs, or sex and …
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Life can often feel full of confusion. Confusion about what to think, feel, and do. Confusion about where to turn for help. Confusion about what the future will throw at us next. However, by talking about the things that are bothering us we can learn to feel better without the use of drugs, alcohol, sex, …
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If part of your recommended treatments for depression consists of mental health therapy, there are some essential things you need to consider when trying to find a therapist who can successfully assist you in your recovery. It all depends upon locating a specialist who can fulfill your specific requirements. You are a unique person whose …
Talking to parents about their BPD children requires, at times, the wisdom of Solomon. Some parents are themselves responsible for assisting in the creation of the psychotraumatic environmental conditions that shape the borderline behavior (Factor I BPD). Sometimes it was their spouse, other family members, or outsiders who perpetrated the psychotrauma. But unfortunately the parent …
The term borderline personality disorder (BPD) suggests the image of a person who is on the edge or border of something. During the first sixty years of the twentieth century, the border in borderline was located between neurosis and insanity (officially called schizophrenia). In fact, the diagnostic term that preceded the use of borderline personality disorder was …
At an earlier age than most, adolescents with BPD are forced to confront the world outside of their families. They are not ready for the rules, structure, and demands of that world. People suffering from borderline personality disorder are driven by fear, sadness, and anger. They are mature beyond their years in some ways (raw survival skills), but as …
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