Mindfulness
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16 hours agoWhy Insight Alone Does Not Heal
Insight opens the door to understanding, but integration and daily practice are essential for true healing.
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Psychology
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23 hours agoWhen Anxiety Turns Us Into Control Freaks
Anxiety drives the need for control over ourselves and others, often leading to stress and repeating family patterns.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology says the people who find it hardest to be taken care of when they're sick aren't independent, they're carrying a very old belief that needing someone was the fastest way to be left - Silicon Canals
Needing care from loved ones during illness can evoke feelings of vulnerability and discomfort, often rooted in deeper fears of abandonment.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThe hardest thing about healing isn't the work itself. It's the quiet grief of realizing how many years you spent believing the problem was you, when the actual problem was an environment that needed you to believe that in order to keep functioning - Silicon Canals
Family systems may require a child to remain unwell for their own functionality, leading to grief and loss when the child realizes their true self.
Relationships
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5 days agoI'm 37 and I finally understand why I keep saying yes to things I want to say no to - psychology calls it "fawning" and once you see it you can't unsee it - Silicon Canals
Fawning behavior leads to difficulty in saying no, causing resentment despite self-awareness and understanding of its irrationality.
Psychology
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2 days agoPsychology says a truly successful life isn't measured by what you've accumulated, it's measured by whether the people closest to you feel more like themselves or less like themselves after spending time with you - Silicon Canals
Success should be measured by the quality of relationships and personal fulfillment rather than external achievements.
#therapy
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks agoWhen Therapy Treats You as the Problem to Fix
Distress can stem from internal issues, external context, or both, and recognizing this is crucial for effective therapy.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks agoWhen Therapy Explains Before It Understands
Therapists may misinterpret clients' experiences by relying on familiar frameworks, potentially overlooking genuine feelings and differences.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoPsychology says people who genuinely know their worth don't announce it or defend it, they operate with a quiet certainty that makes negotiation, justification, and proving themselves feel like a foreign language - Silicon Canals
Genuine confidence stems from self-awareness, not the need to broadcast one's worth or achievements.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoPsychology explains people who forgive easily aren't weak or naive - they've simply done the math on what resentment actually costs the person carrying it and decided the debt isn't worth collecting, because forgiveness isn't about the other person deserving peace, it's about refusing to let someone who already hurt you once continue to take up space in a body they no longer have any right to occupy - Silicon Canals
Forgiveness is essential for personal well-being and mental health, freeing individuals from the burden of resentment.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoPsychology suggests people who follow through on small promises to themselves aren't just building habits - they're constructing the internal evidence that they can be trusted, which is the actual foundation of lasting self-discipline - Silicon Canals
Self-discipline is shaped by accumulated evidence of personal commitments rather than mere willpower.
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoThe Bureaucratization of the Therapist
Psychotherapy and counselling psychology, however, did not emerge from institutional logic. The field was forged within relational, psychoanalytic, and depth-oriented traditions that prioritize lived experience, symbolic meaning, cultural complexity, and human nuance over procedural standardization. Bureaucracy seeks predictability, yet psychotherapy was built upon a disciplined engagement with uncertainty.
Miscellaneous
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoYou Want a Clinician Who Treats You as Person
Evidence Based Medicine was formalized in the 1990s, largely by Canadian physician David Sackett. Sackett described the goal of EBM is to replace hunches and habits with data and clinical trials. Clinical guidelines were developed involving protocols that tell doctors which drug to prescribe first, what dose to use, when to escalate treatment, and when to refer a patient to a specialist.
Medicine
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoHas Therapy Felt Useless? You May Have Been Misunderstood
Some people have excessive self-control causing emotional suppression and isolation, requiring specialized therapy approaches like Radically Open DBT instead of standard emotion-regulation focused treatments.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoHow Should You Pick a Therapist? What Should You Consider?
Approach initial therapy meetings as interviews to assess therapist fit, checking online presence for red flags and ensuring they specialize in your specific needs rather than claiming expertise in all areas.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoDiagnosing mental health conditions need not be a case of yes/no | Letters
If we treat ADHD as binary (you have it or you do not), we are missing the possibility that we all lie somewhere on a continuum with diagnosed ADHD towards one end (and perhaps an ability to focus and concentrate at the other). A diagnosis of ADHD then depends on where the line is drawn. I suggest that this line has been moved in recent years, so that a large group of people have been caught up in the positive ADHD group, who would not have been previously.
Mental health
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoClinical Reasoning and the Debate Over Psychiatric Diagnosis
DSM's checklist psychometric approach and assumption that symptoms are non-iatrogenic produce misdiagnosis, overdiagnosis, overmedication, and increased iatrogenic harm; clinical judgment must guide treatment.
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