Mindfulness is a state of active, open attention on the present. When you’re mindful, you observe your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad. Instead of letting your life pass you by, mindfulness means living in the moment and awakening to experience. Mindfulness can involve: Bringing one’s complete attention to(…)
Rumination is a way of responding to distress that involves repetitively focusing on the symptoms of distress, and on its possible causes and consequences. Rumination is similar to worry except rumination focuses on bad feelings and experiences from the past, whereas worry is concerned over potential bad events in the future. The tendency to ruminate is a stable(…)
“When people are given the opportunity to write about emotional upheavals, they often experience improved health,” Dr. James W. Pennebaker says. “They go to the doctor less. They have changes in immune function.” Featured Images & Quoted from Source: utexas.edu – Writing to Heal Writing therapy is no doubt powerful. It should be approached when ready and(…)
My mind is racing, it won’t stop. It races in the morning, afternoon, and night. I’m exhausted…….no sleep in days, how unhealthy for recovery can this be for you? How familiar does this sound? How do I fix and get myself out of this funk called “negativity”? How do I get the power to control(…)
Please visit the link below, the artist created this work based on lyrics to a song. They say every person looks at an art piece and seeks to understand by finding a way to relate. I immediately saw myself some years ago when the depression began. Beautiful, independent, hard working woman with a dark secret(…)
I found an intense Q & A that helps to unravel the extremes of idealization and devaluation (love and hate) in BPD. I have quoted a part of Dr. Robert Saltzman’s answer below: Borderline Personality Disorder is a kind of mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in self-image, in moods, in interpersonal relationships, and in behavior.(…)
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a complex and serious mental illness that is frequently underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed. The DSM IV-TR criteria for BPD includes: Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. [Not including suicidal or self-injuring behavior covered in Criterion 5] A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes(…)
A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, or psychotropic is a chemical substance that crosses the blood–brain barrier and acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it affects brain function, resulting in changes in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, and behavior. These substances may be used recreationally, to purposefully alter one’s consciousness, as entheogens, for ritual, spiritual, and/or shamanic purposes, as a tool for studying or augmenting the mind, or therapeutically as medication. Psychoactive drugs are divided into three groups according(…)
Psychiatric medications are constantly evolving and change, as discoveries of the brain are uncovered. Therefore, there may be medications not included in this list. Medications are listed alphabetically by generic name, based on marketed in the U.S.A. Brand Names / Registered Trademarks are in ( ). They are listed for informational purposes only with no(…)
What is SPECT? It is an acronym for Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography. SPECT is a sophisticated nuclear medicine study that looks directly at cerebral blood flow and indirectly at brain activity (or metabolism). A radioactive isotope is bound to a substance that is readily taken up by the cells in the brain. A small amount(…)
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