End the Stigma

My son has a birthday card he got from his grandparents. It’s one of those annoying singing birthday cards that have no audio fidelity at all but makes a 4 year-old crack up. The song is I like to move it. (by a band I’ve never heard of called “Reel 2 Real”.) Whatever the band’s name [...]

Dr. Linehan has been an inspiration to many, including me, in trying to figure out how to deal with borderline personality disorder. I count myself among the fortunate few who have had an opportunity to be trained by Dr. Linehan and her “children” during my own training to be a DBT therapist. Does this revelation [...]

Self-restraint can be hard to effectively manage. There’s been an ongoing debate about the notion of catharthis and whether it works to help us relieve emotions or not, for example. A recent article in Wired.com discusses the issue a bit more: My favorite experiment involved movies. Two hundred and thirty nine subjects were given a [...]

Training the brain through mindfulness practice is an essential part of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. We work on developing a way of sorting out what is important to attend to and what needs to be left out of awareness. It’s not ignoring information, but making quick decisions about where mental energy needs to be focused. A [...]