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Coping with Anxiety
Anxiety is a common experience for people with BPD. We are also naturally in anxious times, with routines disrupted and danger being...
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Apr 6, 20203 min read
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Coping with Anxiety
Anxiety is a common experience for people with BPD. We are also naturally in anxious times, with routines disrupted and danger being...
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Apr 6, 20203 min read
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Distress Tolerance
The distress tolerance skills are a set of tools that will help you manage intense emotional states without doing anything destructive....
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Mar 1, 20163 min read
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Self-Sabotage
Self-sabotage is when one part of your personality acts in conflict with another part of your personality. When you engage in self...
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Feb 23, 20164 min read
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Website: Supporting Safe Therapy
As many of you are waiting to start a therapy or may do in the future, and probably have questions and queries surrounding it, Supporting...
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Feb 16, 20161 min read
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Anger and Coping!
There are many situations within our days which may cause us to get anger. Anger is a healthy emotion but the issue arises when the...
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Feb 9, 20164 min read
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Assertive or Aggressive?
In everyday life we are often faced with frustrating situations and everyone reacts to different situation in their own way. Some people...
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Jan 26, 20161 min read
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Setting Goals
It’s that time of year again when people jump on the ‘self-improvement’ bandwagon! New Years resolutions can range from wanting to lose a...
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Jan 5, 20162 min read
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Changing
Change can be a daunting experience for anyone, but for those with BPD it can cause huge emotional stress. We go through stages of change...
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Dec 8, 20151 min read
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Schemas
Everybody has Schemas and they usually help us get through the overload of information from the outer world. When a schema becomes...
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Nov 17, 20151 min read
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What shapes who we are?
When it come to what makes us who we are, it is often a combination of factors. It is the relationships between our Biological factors,...
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Nov 10, 20151 min read
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Building Self-esteem
Do things you enjoy- Work- work can provide a source of identity, friendship, routine and a salary. A job can be a distraction, with some...
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Nov 3, 20152 min read
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Self Esteem
Self-esteem is the view we have of ourselves due to internal and external influences. Having a negative view of ourselves can affect many...
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Oct 29, 20152 min read
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Emotion Regulation
Emotion regulation skills can help us learn how to manage the way we feel and cope in situations. Breaking the cycle can start a change...
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Aug 26, 20153 min read
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Anger and Coping
Anger is a healthy emotion but it can become unhealthy if it affects your life or the lives of others. It can also be the most resistant...
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Aug 19, 20152 min read
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Guilt
The feeling of guilt is supposed to let us know when we have done something wrong. But this is not always the case. Guilt prompts us to...
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Aug 12, 20152 min read
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Being Assertive
Being assertive means getting what you need/want or protecting yourself from what you don't want to do whilst still respecting other...
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Aug 3, 20153 min read
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Loneliness
There are four main coping strategies for loneliness: Active solitude Spending money Social contact Sad passivity Active solitude:...
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Jul 14, 20153 min read
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BPD Diagnostic Criteria
BPD is manifested by a pervasive (unwelcome) pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affects, and marked...
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Jun 22, 20151 min read
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Setting Healthy Boundaries
Personal boundaries are there to keep us and other people safe, like an invisible fence. We are all responsible to know and communicate...
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Jun 12, 20152 min read
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