Tag Archive for: Behavioral

How Can I Stand Up for My Boundaries When Healing From a Psychological Disorder?

How Can I Stand Up for My Boundaries When Healing From a Psychological Disorder?

When you are faced with a psychological disorder, it can feel as if you lack self-control in all areas of your life. To gain a sense of grounding as you heal, you must learn to establish personal boundaries – especially in your relationships.…
How Can Dialectical Behavior Therapy Help Me Become Self-Empowered?

How Can Dialectical Behavior Therapy Help Me Become Self-Empowered?

Any type of psychological disorder can feel overwhelming and uncontrollable. These feelings can be intense during the early days of a disorder’s symptoms appearing. Someone with a mood disorder may understand those feelings intimately, as…
How Can Alter Behavioral Health Help Me Replace Negative Behavioral Patterns With Healthy Ones?

How Can Alter Behavioral Health Help Me Replace Negative Behavioral Patterns With Healthy Ones?

People's emotions and behavior are connected. Negative thoughts and emotions can lead to inappropriate coping methods, such as using substances or having unsafe sex. However, with the proper skills and tools, you can manage your emotions and…
Understanding the Anxiety of Specific Phobia

Understanding the Anxiety of Specific Phobia

Approximately 12.5% of U.S. adults experience “specific phobia” at one point or another during their lifetime. Specific phobia can be understood as “an intense, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger.” This…
How Stress Can Lead to Depression

How Stress Can Lead to Depression

The daily challenges of life can lead to increased stress levels for adults. In our ever-changing world, stress is nearly impossible to evade. A 2020 study by the American Psychological Association (APA) showed that two in three adults (67%)…
The Co-Occurring Disorders of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

The Co-Occurring Disorders of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

Dealing with intense amounts of worry and/or stress can result in moments of dissociation. This condition comes as the mind's natural coping mechanism of “pulling away” when one endures too much pressure too often. Dissociative disorders…
Do I Have ADHD?

Do I Have ADHD?

Staying focused, staying on-task, and getting things done are challenges for most individuals in the world. Facing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) brings these challenges to a much higher difficulty level. What is often thought…