Everyone has stress. But when is stress a risk to our health and well being? Episodic acute stress might be the most common way that stress gets out of hand and puts our mental and physical health in danger.
[Read more…]How to Stop Being a Hypochondriac
Do You Worry Too Much About Your Health?
It can sometimes be tricky to determine whether you are focusing enough on your health. Are you obsessing about it? Or are you neglecting an important symptom? What’s the happy medium?
[Read more…]The DBT STOP Skill: How to Not Make a Bad Situation Worse
The STOP skill in DBT is one of the crisis survival skills (along with TIP skills, IMPROVE the Moment, and others). Use it when your emotions are threatening to get the best of you and you’re tempted to take unhelpful actions.
[Read more…]DBT: IMPROVE the Moment — How to Make Crises Bearable
“Improving the Moment” refers to a set of strategies recommended in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you get through emotionally trying situations. These skills help in situations when our usual self-soothing efforts aren’t getting the job done.
[Read more…]The Hidden Reason You’re Working Too Much — and How to Stop
In the industrialized culture we live in, working too much is often seen as a good thing. And often, it does lead to promotions, good grades, success, and achievement. Who doesn’t want that?!
The truth is that working too much and too hard can come at a high cost. And it may be driven by a belief system that is hidden within our psyche. This belief system is perfectionism. Perfectionism can cause us to work harder than necessary and eventually can get in the way of living a healthy life.
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