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vincewillard-1971 · 1 year ago

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a structured program of psychotherapy with a strong educational component designed to provide skills for managing intense emotions and negotiating social relationships. Originally developed to curb the self-destructive impulse of chronic suicidal patients, it is also the treatment of choice for borderline personality disorder, emotion dysregulation, and a growing array of psychiatric conditions. It consists of group instruction and individual therapy sessions, both conducted weekly for six months to a year.

The "dialectic" in dialectical behavior therapy is an acknowledgement that real life is complex, and health is not a static thing an ongoing process hammered out through a continuous. Socratic dialogue with the self and others. It is continually aimed at balancing opposing forces and investigating the truth of powerful negative emotions.

DBT acknowledges the need for change in a context of acceptance of situations and recognizing the constant flux of feelings-many of them contradictory-without having to get caught up in them. Therapist-teachers help patients understand and accept that thought is an inherently messy process. DBT is itself an interplay of science and practice.

When Is It Used?

With its strong emphasis on emotion regulation skills, DBT is finding application as a treatment for wide range of mental health conditions. They include:

•Personality disorders, including borderline personality disorder

•Self-harm

•Posttraumatic stress disorder

•Bulimia

•Binge-eating disorder

•Depression

•Anxiety

•Substance use disorder

•Bipolar disorder

What to Expect

Expect a course of treatment that typically consist of weekly group, skill-focused instructional meetings as well as individual therapy sessions. Individual sessions usually last an hour, group meetings, usually consisting of four to 10 people, are designed to run for an hour and a half to two hours. DBT is present-oriented and skill-based, and patients are asked to practice their skills between sessions. Patients can expect homework assignments, which might, for example, focus on taking specific, concrete steps to master relationship challenges.

DBT specifically focuses on providing therapeutic skills in four key areas:

•Mindfulness enables individuals to accept and be present in the current moment by noting the fleeting nature of emotions, which diminishes the power of emotions to direct their actions.

•DBT also inculcates distress tolerance, the ability to tolerate negative emotion rather than needing to escape from it or acting in ways that make difficult situations worse.

•Emotion regulation strategies give individuals the power to manage and change intense emotions that are causing problems in their life.

•Last but not least, DBT teaches techniques of interpersonal effectiveness, allowing a person to communicate with others in a way that is assertive, maintains self-respect, and strengthens relationships; a core principle is that learning how to ask directly for what you want diminishes resentment and hurt feelings.

DBT incorporates many of the techniques of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). It helps patients recognize and challenge the varieties of distorted thinking the underlie negative feelings and prompt unproductive behavior. For example, patients learn to identify when they are catrophizing-assuming the worse will happen-in order to avoid acting as if it were the case. They review their own past and present experience for instances of all-or-nothing thinking, seeing everything in extremes of black and white, devoid of nuance that is more generally the nature of life.

Mindfulness training is an important part of DBT. In addition to keeping patients present-focused, it slows down emotional reactivity, affording people time to summon healthy coping skills in the midst of distressing situations. Patients are asked to keep a diary tracking their emotions and impulses, a tool that helps them gain awareness of their feelings, understand which situations are especially problematic for them, and use the information to gain control over their own behavior. In individual sessions, patients review difficult situations and feelings they face the prior week and engage in problem-solving by actively discussing ways of behaving that might have delivered a positive outcome. In addition, patients typically have access to therapists between sessions for skills coaching if they are in a crisis.

How It Works

In seeing many health conditions as disorders of emotion dysregulation, DBT is focused on emotions and how they feel ineffectual action patterns. Many elements of the therapy are aimed at teaching patients how to recognize, understand, label, and regulate their emotions and how to handle interpersonal situations that give rise to negative or painful emotions.

Each week, for individual therapy sessions, patients complete a diary "card" (often done via an app), a self-monitoring form that tracks individualized treatment targets relating moods, behavior, and skills. Patients identify and rate the intensity of emotions they experience each day-fear, shame, sadness, anger, pain, suicide attempts, and more-and space is provided to discuss emotional experience in more detail if needed. In addition, using a checklist of skills-which also serves as a handy reminder to deploy them-patients note the frequency with which they engaged in positive practices, from self-soothing and radical acceptance to reducing vulnerability and acting in ways contrary to how they felt.

The information on the diary card let's the therapist know how to allocate session time. Life-threatening or self-injurious behavior take priority, not surprisingly. After identifying the behavioral targets for a session, the therapist helps the patient engage in behavioral analysis, figuring out what led to a specific problem situation the patient encountered, including any underlying beliefs or attitudes that surreptitiously reinforce the behavior, and discussing the consequences of the patients actions. The therapist and patient discuss more skillful ways to solve emotional and life problems.

Because DBT is a demanding therapy to deliver even for experienced therapists, therapists typically work in consultation with a treatment team and regularly meet with a team. The team's recommendations are often applied in individual therapy sessions.

While studies of DBT have documented improvement within a year of treatment, particularly in controlling self-harmful behavior, patients may require therapy for several years.

What to Look for in a Dialectical Behavior Therapist

A DBT therapist is a licensed mental health professional who has additional training and experience in DBT. Several organizations provide certification in DBT to qualified therapists who have completed advanced academic and clinical work. Certified DBT therapist may use the designation CDBT.

DBT is a comprehensive and multifaceted therapy designed to help patients cope with extreme emotional suffering and, often, self-injurious behavior. Many patients seeking DBT have undergone other forms of therapy without experiencing significant improvement. DBT is a complex treatment modality that makes many demands of the therapist and requires extensive training to be administered in the way it was developed and tested.

Many components of the therapy, such as the skills training, have been adapted to treatment programs that do not reflect the comprehensive DBT treatment protocol. Finding a clinician who has undergone training and certification in the full DBT treatment model can be important to a good outcome.

When seeking a DBT therapist, experience counts. It is advisable to seek a therapist who has not just extensive training but also experience using DBT to treat patients presenting with concerns such as yours.

Important as qualifications and experience are, so is as good fit. As with all forms of therapy, it is also advisable to find a DBT therapist with whom you feel comfortable. Look for someone with whom you can establish clarity of communication.

Here are some important questions to ask a prospective DBT therapist:

•How often have you dealt with problems such as mine before?

•How do you know my situation is a good candidate for DBT?

•How does DBT work?

•What is a typical plan of treatment, and how long is a typical course of therapy?

•How do you measure progress?

•What is the nature of your training in DBT

•Do you provide comprehensive DBT or a modification?

•Do you belong to a DBT consultation team?

•What is your policy on phone calls and emails during the week?

•What length of time do you initially ask a client to commit to?

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synclu-satan · 3 years ago

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A follow up to this post—the anon came back five minutes later with this:

How is it possible to be an endogenic (which means to be without trauma) DID when the DSM 5 specifically states that to have dissociative identity disorder you MUST have trauma. Its a disorder based on trauma so how is it possible?

There’s a lot to unpack here, not least of which was the fact that i had only mentioned DID systems who happened to also be endogenic very briefly in the original post. It was by no means the main point. Regardless, I was on a day off and had time to kill, so I once again answered.

endogenic does not mean having no trauma, actually. endo- means on the inside or from within. -genic means formed or caused by. so the literal definition is "caused from within", which contrasts with traumagenic because trauma comes from outside. people don't traumatize themselves.

As I noted in this post, the -genic labels were originally created to help stop fights between systems, so that people could connect via origin rather than diagnosis and not step on each other’s toes. That uh. Didn’t exactly work out, but it’s useful information so I’ll keep putting it out there.

Also, just having trauma has nothing to do with the source of a system. Someone who is a system from birth is probably not traumagenic (Just being born is presumably not traumatic for the grand majority of people, outside of very difficult births and other unusual situations. This probably varies by race/ethnicity as well unfortunately). That same person could still have a traumatic childhood and end up with a classic presentation of DID, or they could have a lovely childhood and just be a system, or they could have a traumatic childhood and still be non-disordered on the system side of things.

with the etymology out of the way—people can have trauma while not being systems, right? and it's been long documented that some people are plural outside of disorder (the DSM specifically excludes plural presentations based in religious practice for example). so that explains that endogenic systems can potentially exist.

Natural multiples, endogenic systems, spiritual systems, however you may want to put it, they’ve been building communities of their own for decades.

now. the DSM criteria for DID are:

1. must have two or more distinct identities (can be noticed by others or self reported)

2. amnesia, which is broadly defined and may be for traumatic events, between headmates, for emotional memories, etc. lots of ways to meet this.

3. the symptoms (being plural or having amnesia) cause distress and difficulty functioning in multiple areas of life.

4. the plurality is not caused by a normal part of the person's religion and is not better explained by imaginary friends (in children).

5. the symptoms are not caused by drugs or alcohol or another medical condition (such as seizures).

The image below says the same thing with more complex/academic words. Got this from the APA website if I recall correctly. I didn’t use the full definitions because that’s a lot of words for an anonymous question site.

i don't see "trauma" listed as a requirement. yes, the notes say that according to the research at the time the DSM-5 was written overwhelmingly showed a correlation between traumatic childhood and DID, but that was (1) 20 years ago and (2) literally written by a man who didn't even believe DID actually existed.*

*EDIT: The DSM is of course written by a large editing board and most of that one guy’s edits (if not all) were removed by now.

Not to mention the lack of research on systems who do not present to psychiatric care or research due to not knowing they are a system or being worried about stigma or psychiatric abuse. Which is absolutely fair and a huge problem for many people with more stigmatized or severe diagnoses.

anyway. the point here is that trauma later in life can cause barriers and dissociative symptoms that could present in an endogenic system as DID. and i would not be surprised if there was a way for that to happen without distinct trauma regardless.

By “distinct trauma,” I mean some event or series of events that the person or others could point to and say “hey, that was really bad and probably started these other symptoms for you.” So “obvious” or “generally known to be severe” would also work in place of “distinct.”

either way, we can't start gatekeeping who gets support and help and therapy based on whether their reasoning for why they need it is "good enough." if it's cruel to ask someone with diagnosed PTSD why they have PTSD, and then block them from resources if they don't want to share their trauma, then it's cruel to do that to anyone. you are not entitled to know why people need certain resources or support.

This is really the heart of the issue for me. So much of syscourse ends up boiling down to “proving” people’s existence by prying into their trauma histories and timelines, as well as increasingly ridiculous ways to “prove” that someone is “faking,” such as certain alter names, identities, comorbid conditions, ways of talking about themselves, and so on. It’s cruel, it’s invasive, it’s wrong.

also note that "trauma disorders" is not a section of the DSM-5. there are stress disorders (which include PTSD and Acute Stress Disorder), psychotic disorders, developmental disorders, obsessive-compulsive-type disorders (which include various addictions), and several other categories. DID is a dissociative disorder. there are no trauma disorders.

Oh yeah, this was a second post I added to the account after answering this ask. It’s a true fact, check the DSM categories yourself if you like. Not that we should be treating the DSM like some kind of holy grail anyway, it’s written from a biased viewpoint by people who will inevitably make mistakes. Most of the American psychology world is made up of research done on (mostly) white college students. That’s such a small slice of people compared to the diversity and variety actually in the country, let alone the world. We learn more things about the human brain every year, and sometimes it takes a while for the published literature to catch up.

Someday there will be more out there, but for now maybe we should just believe each other and let people live their lives. If someone is doing something genuinely dangerous, then sure warn people about it! Dangerous is bad! Someone having other people living in their head and just vibing with that fact? Not dangerous. Regardless of origin.

#pro endo #syscourse

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ob-directory · 3 years ago

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Good for Nothing By Mark Fisher

I’ve suffered from depression intermittently since I was a teenager. Some of these episodes have been highly debilitating – resulting in self-harm, withdrawal (where I would spend months on end in my own room, only venturing out to sign-on or to buy the minimal amounts of food I was consuming), and time spent on psychiatric wards. I wouldn’t say I’ve recovered from the condition, but I’m pleased to say that both the incidences and the severity of depressive episodes have greatly lessened in recent years. Partly, that is a consequence of changes in my life situation, but it’s also to do with coming to a different understanding of my depression and what caused it. I offer up my own experiences of mental distress not because I think there’s anything special or unique about them, but in support of the claim that many forms of depression are best understood – and best combatted – through frames that are impersonal and political rather than individual and ‘psychological’.

Writing about one’s own depression is difficult. Depression is partly constituted by a sneering ‘inner’ voice which accuses you of self-indulgence – you aren’t depressed, you’re just feeling sorry for yourself, pull yourself together – and this voice is liable to be triggered by going public about the condition. Of course, this voice isn’t an ‘inner’ voice at all – it is the internalised expression of actual social forces, some of which have a vested interest in denying any connection between depression and politics.

My depression was always tied up with the conviction that I was literally good for nothing. I spent most of my life up to the age of thirty believing that I would never work. In my twenties I drifted between postgraduate study, periods of unemployment and temporary jobs. In each of these roles, I felt that I didn’t really belong – in postgraduate study, because I was a dilettante who had somehow faked his way through, not a proper scholar; in unemployment, because I wasn’t really unemployed, like those who were honestly seeking work, but a shirker; and in temporary jobs, because I felt I was performing incompetently, and in any case I didn’t really belong in these office or factory jobs, not because I was ‘too good’ for them, but – very much to the contrary – because I was over-educated and useless, taking the job of someone who needed and deserved it more than I did. Even when I was on a psychiatric ward, I felt I was not really depressed – I was only simulating the condition in order to avoid work, or in the infernally paradoxical logic of depression, I was simulating it in order to conceal the fact that I was not capable of working, and that there was no place at all for me in society.

When I eventually got a job as lecturer in a Further Education college, I was for a while elated – yet by its very nature this elation showed that I had not shaken off the feelings of worthlessness that would soon lead to further periods of depression. I lacked the calm confidence of one born to the role. At some not very submerged level, I evidently still didn’t believe that I was the kind of person who could do a job like teaching. But where did this belief come from? The dominant school of thought in psychiatry locates the origins of such ‘beliefs’ in malfunctioning brain chemistry, which are to be corrected by pharmaceuticals; psychoanalysis and forms of therapy influenced by it famously look for the roots of mental distress in family background, while Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is less interested in locating the source of negative beliefs than it is in simply replacing them with a set of positive stories. It is not that these models are entirely false, it is that they miss – and must miss – the most likely cause of such feelings of inferiority: social power. The form of social power that had most effect on me was class power, although of course gender, race and other forms of oppression work by producing the same sense of ontological inferiority, which is best expressed in exactly the thought I articulated above: that one is not the kind of person who can fulfill roles which are earmarked for the dominant group.

On the urging of one of the readers of my book Capitalist Realism, I started to investigate the work of David Smail. Smail – a therapist, but one who makes the question of power central to his practice – confirmed the hypotheses about depression that I had stumbled towards. In his crucial book The Origins of Unhappiness, Smail describes how the marks of class are designed to be indelible. For those who from birth are taught to think of themselves as lesser, the acquisition of qualifications or wealth will seldom be sufficient to erase – either in their own minds or in the minds of others – the primordial sense of worthlessness that marks them so early in life. Someone who moves out of the social sphere they are ‘supposed’ to occupy is always in danger of being overcome by feelings of vertigo, panic and horror: “…isolated, cut off, surrounded by hostile space, you are suddenly without connections, without stability, with nothing to hold you upright or in place; a dizzying, sickening unreality takes possession of you; you are threatened by a complete loss of identity, a sense of utter fraudulence; you have no right to be here, now, inhabiting this body, dressed in this way; you are a nothing, and ‘nothing’ is quite literally what you feel you are about to become.”

For some time now, one of the most successful tactics of the ruling class has been responsibilisation. Each individual member of the subordinate class is encouraged into feeling that their poverty, lack of opportunities, or unemployment, is their fault and their fault alone. Individuals will blame themselves rather than social structures, which in any case they have been induced into believing do not really exist (they are just excuses, called upon by the weak). What Smail calls ‘magical voluntarism’ – the belief that it is within every individual’s power to make themselves whatever they want to be – is the dominant ideology and unofficial religion of contemporary capitalist society, pushed by reality TV ‘experts’ and business gurus as much as by politicians. Magical voluntarism is both an effect and a cause of the currently historically low level of class consciousness. It is the flipside of depression – whose underlying conviction is that we are all uniquely responsible for our own misery and therefore deserve it. A particularly vicious double bind is imposed on the long-term unemployed in the UK now: a population that has all its life been sent the message that it is good for nothing is simultaneously told that it can do anything it wants to do.

We must understand the fatalistic submission of the UK’s population to austerity as the consequence of a deliberately cultivated depression. This depression is manifested in the acceptance that things will get worse (for all but a small elite), that we are lucky to have a job at all (so we shouldn’t expect wages to keep pace with inflation), that we cannot afford the collective provision of the welfare state. Collective depression is the result of the ruling class project of resubordination. For some time now, we have increasingly accepted the idea that we are not the kind of people who can act. This isn’t a failure of will any more than an individual depressed person can ‘snap themselves out of it’ by ‘pulling their socks up’. The rebuilding of class consciousness is a formidable task indeed, one that cannot be achieved by calling upon ready-made solutions – but, in spite of what our collective depression tells us, it can be done. Inventing new forms of political involvement, reviving institutions that have become decadent, converting privatised disaffection into politicised anger: all of this can happen, and when it does, who knows what is possible?

나는 십대 때부터 간헐적으로 우울증을 앓아왔는데, 그 삽화 중 몇번은 날 매우 쇠약하게 하기도 해 - 자해, 퇴거 (내가 실업 수당 신청서에 서명할 때나 당시 섭취하던 최소한의 양의 음식을 사러나갈 때만을 제외하고 몇 달씩이나 내 방 안에서 계속 지내던 걸 말한다), 그리고 정신병동에 입원하는 결과로 이어졌다. 그런 상태에서 완쾌했다고 말하고 싶진 않지만, 최근 몇 년간 우울증 삽화의 빈도와 심각성 둘 다 줄어들었다곤 말할 수 있어 기쁘다. 부분적으로, 그건 내 생활 상황의 변화가 초래한 결과이기도 하지만, 그건 또한 내 우울증과 그 원인이 무엇인지에 관해 다르게 이해를 하게 된 것과도 관련이 있다. 내가 나 자신의 정신적 고통의 경험을 ��하는 건 내 경험이 무언가 특별하거나 유례 없는 일이라 생각해서가 아니라, 우울증의 많은 형태들은 개인적이고 '심리적인' 틀이 아닌 비개인적이고 정치적인 틀에서 가장 잘 이해되고 - 또 맞서싸울 수 있다는 - 주장을 뒷받침하기 위해서다.

자기 자신의 우울증에 관한 글을 쓰는 건 어려운 일이다. 우울증은 부분적으로 스스로에게 방종의 혐의를 제기하는 비소적인 '내부의' 목소리로 구성되어있다 - 넌 우울한게 아니라, 그저 스스로를 불쌍하게 여길 뿐이야, 정신 좀 차려 - 그리고 이 목소리는 병세를 공개적으로 밝힐 때 발동되기 쉽다. 물론, 이 목소리는 전혀 '내부의' 목소리가 아니다 - 그건 실제 사회력들(social forces)의 내면화된 표현으로, 그 중 몇몇은 우울증과 정치 사이의 어떤 연관도 부인하는 데 있어서 기득권을 갖고 있다.

내 우울증은 언제나 나는 말 그대로 아무짝에도 쓸모가 없다(good for nothing)는 확신과 얽혀 있었다. 나는 30살 전까지 대부분의 인생을 난 절대로 일하지 않을 거라 믿으며 보냈다.

20대에 나는 대학원 연구와, 무직으로 지내던 기간 그리고 임시직 사이에서 표류했다. 그 모든 역할에서, 나는 내가 거기에 진정으로 속한 게 아니라고 느꼈다 – 대학원에서는, 내가 제대로 된 학자가 아니라, 어쩌다보니 속임수로 여기까지 온 아마추어였기 때문이었다; 실업자 생활 중에는, 난 진심으로 구직활동을 하는 사람들 같이 정말로 실직 상태인게 아니라, 기피자였기 때문이었다; 그리고 임시직으로 일할 때는, 내가 무능하게 업무를 본다고 느꼈고, 또 좌우지간에 나는 이런 사무직이나 생산직에는 맞지 않다고 생각했기 때문인데, 내가 '그런 일을 하기엔 아까웠던 게' 아니라, 오히려 - 그 정반대로 - 나는 과잉학력에 쓸모는 없어서, 나보다 이 일을 더 필요로 했고 더 자격 있는 사람의 직업을 빼았고 있었기 때문이었다. 내가 정신 병동에 있었을 때조차도, 난 내가 진짜로 우울증에 걸린 게 아니라고 생각했다 - 나는 그저 일을 하기 싫어서 증세를 모방하는 중이거나, 아니면 우울증의 지독하게 역설적 논리로, 나는 내가 일을 할 능력이 없고, 사회에 나를 위한 장소는 아예 존재하지 않는다는 사실을 감추기 위해 모방하고 있는거라고.

내가 마침내 한 계속교육대학(Further Education college)의 강사라는 직업을 갖게 됐을 때, 나는 잠시동안 의기양양한 기분이었다 - 하지만 바로 그 의기양양함이야말로 내가 곧 나를 더한 우울증의 기간들로 내몰게 될 무가치함의 기분을 떨쳐내지 못했다는 걸 의미했다. 나는 해당 직업에 타고난 사람이 가진 차분한 자신감을 갖지 못했다. 그다지 수몰되지 않은 층위에서, 나는 분명히 내가 교사직 같은 일을 할 수 있는 사람이 아니라고 믿고 있었다. 그런데 이런 생각은 어디로부터 온 걸까? 정신 의학의 지배적인 학파는 그러한 '생각들'의 기원을 오작동하는 뇌 화학에서 찾고, 이 오작동은 의약품을 통해 고쳐야 한다고 보았다; 정신분석과 그 영향을 받은 형태의 심리치료는 잘 알려졌다시피 정신적 고통의 근원을 가족 배경에서 찾는 한편, 인지행동치료는 부정적 생각들의 출처를 찾는 일보단 이를 단순히 일련의 긍정적 이야기들로 대체하는 일에 더 관심을 보인다. 이 모델들이 완전히 틀렸다는 게 아니다, 허나 이들은 그러한 열등감의 가장 가능성 있는 원인인: 사회적 권력을 놓치고 - 또 놓칠 수 밖에 없다. 내게 가장 큰 영향을 미친 사회적 권력은 계급 권력이었다, 하지만 물론 젠더, 인종 그리고 억압의 다른 형태들 역시도 똑같은 감각의 존재론적 열등함을 생산하며 작동하는데, 이건 정확히 내가 위에서 말한 생각을 통해 가장 잘 표현된다: 자기는 지배적인 집단에 배정된 역할을 수행할 수 없다는 생각 말이다.

내 책 『자본주의 리얼리즘』을 읽은 독자 한명의 권고 덕분에, 나는 데이빗 스메일(David Smail)의 작업을 조사해보기 시작했다. 스메일 - 심리치료사지만, 권력에 대한 질문을 자기 방법론의 중심에 두는 치료사 - 은 내가 우연히 발견한 우울증에 관한 가설을 확증하였다. 그의 중요한 저서 『불행의 기원들』에서, 스메일은 어떻게 계급의 자국들이 지워질 수 없게끔 설계되는지 설명한다. 태어날 때부더 자기 자신을 덜 중요한 존재로 생각하도록 가르침 받아온 사람들에겐, 자격이나 부의 획득은 - 그 자신들의 마음 속에서든 타자들의 마음 속에서든간에 - 아주 어릴 적부터 표시되는 원초적인 무가치함의 감각을 지워내기엔 좀처럼 충분하지 않게 된다. 그들이 점유'하기로 되어있는' 사회적 영역을 벗어나는 이들은 언제나 현기증, 공황 그리고 공포에 압도당할 위험에 처해있다: "…고립되고, 차단당하고, 적대적인 공간에 둘러싸여서, 당신은 급작스럽게 연줄도, 안정성도 없는, 당신을 똑바로 세워주거나 제자리에 고정시켜 줄만한 아무 것도 없는 상황에 놓이게 된다; 어지럽고, 구역질나는 비현실이 당신을 차지한다; 당신은 완전한 정체성의 상실, 완전한 사기의 감각에게 협��을 받는다; 당신은 여기 있을 자격이 없다, 이제, 이 몸에 깃든 채, 이런 옷차림에서; 당신은 아무 것도 아니다, 그리고 '아무 것도 아닌 것'은 문자 그대로 당신이 곧 될 거라 느끼는 모습이다."

어느덧 꽤나 오랜 시간 동안, 책임화(responsibilisation)는 지배 계급의 가장 성공적인 수법으로 쓰여왔다. 하위 계급의 각각의 구성원들은 그들의 빈곤과, 기회의 부족, 아니면 실업이, 자신들의 탓이고 또 오직 자신들만의 잘못이라고 믿도록 권장받는다. 개인들은 사회 구조보다는 자기 자신들을 탓하게 되고, 또 어차피 사회 구조 같은 건 진짜 있는 게 아니라고 믿게끔 (그건 그저, 약자들의 변명거리일 뿐이라고) 유도된다. 스메일이 '마술적 의지주의'(magial voluntarism)이라 부르는 신념 - 모든 개인들이 순전히 자기 힘으로 원하는 건 무엇이든지 될 수 있다는 믿음 - 은 현대 자본주의 사회의 지배적인 이데올로기이자 비공식적인 종교로, 정치인들만큼이나 리얼리티 TV '전문가들'과 비즈니스 구루들의 밀어주기를 받는다. 마술적 의지주의는 지금의 역사상 최저 수준으로 낮은 계급 의식의 효과이면서 또 동시에 그 원인이기도 하다. 이건 - 근원적으로 우리는 모두 우리 자신의 고통에 고유한 책임이 있으며 그러므로 고통받아야 마땅하다는 판결을 내리는 - 우울증의 이면이다. 이제 영국의 장기실업자들에게는 특히 악랄한 이중 구속이 부과된다: 평생 동안 아무짝에도 쓸모없다는 메세지를 받아온 주민들은 그와 동시에 당신은 하고 싶은 건 무엇이든지 할 수 있다는 말을 듣게 된다.

우리는 긴축에 대한 영국 주민들의 운명론적 굴복을 의도적으로 구축된 우울증의 결과로서 이해해야만 한다. 이 우울증은 (소수의 엘리트를 제외한 모두에게) 상황은 더 악화될 것이고, 우리는 직업을 가졌다는 것만으로도 감사해야 하며 (그러니 임금이 인플레이션에 맞춰 오를 거란 기대는 하지 말아야 하고), 우리는 복지 국가의 집단적 공급을 감당할 수 없다는 걸 받아들임으로서 나타난다. 집단적 우울증은 지배 계급의 재종속 프로젝트의 결과다. 꽤 오랜 시간 동안, 우리는 갈수록 더 우리는 행동할 수 있는 사람이 아니라는 발상을 수용해왔다. 이건 우울증에 걸린 개인이 '더 분발함으로서' '기운을 차릴 수 있다'는 말이 헛소리이듯이 의지의 실패가 아니다. 계급 의식의 재건은 분명히 만만치 않은 과제로, 이미 주어진 해법은 통해 달성할 수 있는 과제는 아니다 - 하지만, 우리의 집단적 우울증이 우리에게 하는 말에도 불구하고, 그건 재건될 수 있다. 정치적 개입의 새로운 형태를 발명하고, 쇠퇴한 기관들을 되살려내고, 사유화된 불만을 정치화된 분노로 전환하는 일: 이 모든 게 일어날 수 있다, 그리고 그게 일어나고 나면, 뭐가 가능할지 누가 알겠는가?

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Cognitive Behavior Modification Strategies Demystified

Cbt For Stress And Anxiety

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What Should I Get Out Of A Cbt Session?

When Cognitive Behavior Modification Does Not Function.

Stating No Can Be An Act Of Love: 6 Of The Most Effective Lessons Individuals Picked Up From Therapy.

Mindfulness.

Research study has revealed that certain patterns of believing are connected with a wide range of psychological as well as mental troubles. These negative or extreme idea patterns have actually regularly come to be so regular that they are experienced as automatic and go undetected by the individual. Psychological and also psychological distress occurs when people view the globe as harmful. When this occurs perceptions and also analyses of occasions come to be very discerning, egocentric, as well as inflexible, leading to people making systematic mistakes in thinking, called 'cognitive distortions'. ver 2000 years ago the Greek Calm philosopher Epictetus said that individuals are interrupted not by points but by the sights they take of them. When your therapist has actually learnt more about you as well as your experiences detailed, they will start to supply you with pointers and also methods to help you handle or battle your mental health concerns.

DD receives appointment fee from the Albert Ellis Institute and also editorial fee from the Springer. All 3 authors are CBT experienced researchers, energetic promoters, and also factors to evidence-based psychotherapy. The editor as well as customers' associations are the most recent offered on their Loophole study accounts as well as may not mirror their situation at the time of evaluation. This area has lots of info, suggestions as well as features to help during this time around. Prior to you total attain your goal bear in mind to bear in mind to prepare for your next objective. The natural arousal power of objective implementation will decrease on completion and also to continue to keep inspired as well as goal focused its valuable to have your following goal in mind ready to begin the steps again. Make a WISE goal that is necessary to you i.e. select something that you truly want, is substantial or interests you.

What Should I Get Out Of A Cbt Session?

Some registered nurses, physicians, occupational therapists and also medical psycho therapists operating in CMHTs might likewise supply CBT. With experience you can get senior high strength therapist roles by undertaking additional duties entailing supervision, management, job leadership, training, specialism and also education. Conversely, you can develop expert study skills and expertise via getting a professional doctoral research fellowship and also finishing a PhD. Whichever path you select, proficiency beyond the core high strength therapist function is needed and also you'll require to carry out pertinent training. Setups can consist of area psychological health groups, GP surgical treatments, health and wellness centres and also healthcare facilities, or social services. Proof of long-lasting volunteering is additionally handy as it shows that you're emotionally strong as well as committed to dealing with individuals with psychological wellness problems. These sorts of vacancies can be located in the not-for-profit and health and wellness field.

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You should feel ready to proactively change your ideas as well as behaviour for it to be effective. direct therapy - Things You Must Learn About Cognitive Behavioral Therapy might discover it hard to concentrate and stay motivated in the beginning, particularly if you've been feeling low. But the best therapist will put you at ease and also see to it you take the sessions at the right speed for you It is very important that your therapist is educated as well as certified to use CBT.

When Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Doesn't Function.

Element C is typically the longest session as it involves practical knowing and exercises. It is this section where prospects need to reveal they have standard equilibrium and control abilities in order to proceed. Element C takes around 2 hrs yet may be prolonged relying on prospect abilities. Component B takes around 30 to 40 mins and also introduces you to the motorbike, the controls, safely checks plus pressing and wheeling your maker. Depending on the severity of your psychological health and wellness problem, CBT can additionally be used along with antidepressant drug, which can help make therapy sessions much more efficient as symptoms of depression are decreased. While sessions of CBT can continue for weeks or months prior to symptoms of anxiety or anxiety begin to alleviate, it is typically pointed out as one of the most effective type of talking therapy, otherwise referred to as psychiatric therapy, which currently exists.

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At this moment you're probably mosting likely to be really feeling rather excellent on the bike; as well as getting made use of to how it all works to ensure that you prepare to improve these standard abilities when traveling. When you have actually efficiently completed a CBT, you can ride a motorcycle up to 125cc if you more than 17, or a moped if you are over 16, when driving with L plates for as much as 2 years before taking your motorcycle licence examination. Common Myths About Cognitive Behavioral Therapy involves a theory element on bike equipment and road security, an on-site practical to make certain you know how to run your bike or moped, and a two-hour block of real-life riding. You do not require to have actually passed your theory examination in order to do the CBT course. If you are taking into consideration acquiring a full bike permit at some point, then don't miss this opportunity to ask your teacher to evaluate the number of days of training they think you will require. There is an optimum proportion of 4 pupils to one teacher except for element E, when the optimum ratio is two pupils to one instructor. If there are 4 pupils on the training course after that the teacher will certainly execute 2 road rides, each lasting for 2 hrs.

Saying No Can Be An Act Of Love: 6 Of The Very Best Lessons Individuals Gained From Therapy.

While it's important to enlighten on your own and also reviewing an introduction of the most usual sorts of online therapy can provide you a concept of what would benefit you, eventually, it's the therapist who will make a decision which strategy to follow. It is necessary to maintain an open mind because sometimes their options may appear unusual initially. Bear in mind, as the client, you can request for clarification, and your therapist can clarify what a type of therapy involves. Any individual who intends to attempt 'appropriate' therapy yet doesn't have the time or capacity to take a trip for sessions, and also any individual that's in some way gone and obtained themselves disallowed from every counsellor in town. Well, if the future of mental healthcare is everything about IMs, FaceTime as well as 'OMG, which neuroses R U?

CBT is used in many conditions, so it isn't possible to note them all right here. We will check out choices to the most typical issues - anxiousness and anxiety.

Mindfulness.

Direct exposure therapy intends to break this way of thinking by subjecting you to the things you fear in a risk-free setup. Numerous research studies have actually recorded CBT's efficiency to deal with problems like OCD, PTSD and also Anxieties.

Mostly it was great, it truly was, however the very first couple of minutes were a teensy bit knuckle-bitey.

Discover the self, what it means to be clashed as well as the effects this has on an individual's health.

I assist trainees suffering from a variety of psychological health and wellness conditions, students that are feeling reduced, and also arrange interventions in between children.

My technique to therapy is integrated, meaning that I can collaborate with a combination of concepts, Person Centred coaching underpins all of my work, specifically when working on an emotional degree with my customers.

If these thoughts are considered impractical, you will certainly learn skills that aid you change your reasoning patterns so they are extra accurate with respect to a given situation. Once your point of view is more sensible, the therapist can aid you identify a suitable strategy.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy

When Is It Used?

With its strong emphasis on emotion regulation skills, DBT is finding application as a treatment for wide range of mental health conditions. They include:

•Personality disorders, including borderline personality disorder

•Self-harm

•Posttraumatic stress disorder

•Bulimia

•Binge-eating disorder

•Depression

•Anxiety

•Substance use disorder

•Bipolar disorder

What to Expect

DBT specifically focuses on providing therapeutic skills in four key areas:

•Mindfulness enables individuals to accept and be present in the current moment by noting the fleeting nature of emotions, which diminishes the power of emotions to direct their actions.

•DBT also inculcates distress tolerance, the ability to tolerate negative emotion rather than needing to escape from it or acting in ways that make difficult situations worse.

•Emotion regulation strategies give individuals the power to manage and change intense emotions that are causing problems in their life.

How It Works

While studies of DBT have documented improvement within a year of treatment, particularly in controlling self-harmful behavior, patients may require therapy for several years.

What to Look for in a Dialectical Behavior Therapist

Here are some important questions to ask a prospective DBT therapist:

•How often have you dealt with problems such as mine before?

•How do you know my situation is a good candidate for DBT?

•How does DBT work?

•What is a typical plan of treatment, and how long is a typical course of therapy?

•How do you measure progress?

•What is the nature of your training in DBT

•Do you provide comprehensive DBT or a modification?

•Do you belong to a DBT consultation team?

•What is your policy on phone calls and emails during the week?

•What length of time do you initially ask a client to commit to?

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Depression

Introduction

Natural part of the human experience is sadness. Many of us may feel sad or depressed due to many reasons such when a loved one passes away and going to life challenges. These feelings must be normally in a short time. When an intense feeling of sadness is felt persistently for a long period of time, they may have a major depressive disorder (MDD).

MDD also denotes clinical depression that has a big impact on one’s life. It affects the mood and behavior including the physical and social function. They may have unusual sadness and reduced interest in the usual activities they used to enjoy.

According to statistics, the Philippines is considered to be one of the happiest countries worldwide however has a high number of MDD cases as per WHO. Depression is common in all gender ages 20 to 50 year old. In five persons, one can experience depression.

The Philippines has the highest number of depressed people in Southeast Asia. The National Statistics Office reported that mental illness is the third most common form of disability in the country. Records show a high number of cases among the youth.

The study conducted by the Global Burden of Disease in 2015 reported that 3.3. million Filipinos suffer from depressive disorders, with suicide rates in 2.5 males and 1.7 females per 100,000. The World Health Organization, however, thinks that the numbers could be just a portion of the actual problem, especially because in a Catholic country like ours, talking about mental health creates a stigma among Filipinos, thus suicide incidents could be under-reported

Diagnosis

There are numerous factors professionals consider in diagnosing “Major Depressive Disorder”, such as descriptions of the observations of people surrounding the individual, as well as the patient’s own insight regarding life. In lieu of this, the patient diagnosed with MDD usually presents with an abrupt shift in both the outlook and function of daily activities, which severely interferes with the patient’s living conditions. Distinct irritability, excessive guilt, feelings of worthlessness, suicidal intent, indecisiveness, lethargy, along with shifts in diet and sleeping patterns are also key points in the diagnosis. Although, in order to properly diagnose MDD, the physician must thoroughly eliminate any possibilities of these symptoms being brought about by other conditions such as substance abuse, diabetes, hyperthyroidism, and/or other psychiatric disorders.

Treatment

The primary indication for antidepressant agents is the treatment of Major Depressive disorders. The following are antidepressant agents:

The most common antidepressant in clinical use due to their ease of use, safety in overdose, relative tolerability, fewer side effects, and cost

These drugs include fluoxetine, sertraline, and escitalopram which are available here in the Philippines

Side effects include drowsiness, nausea, dry mouth, insomnia, diarrhea, nervousness, agitation or restlessness, dizziness, sexual problems (such as reduced sexual desire, difficulty reaching orgasm, inability to maintain an erection), headache and blurred vision

The SNRIs approved by the food and drug administration in treating depression which is also available here in the Philippines are duloxetine, venlafaxine

Side effects include headache, somnolence, fatigue, dizziness, insomnia, agitation, tremor, anxiety, insomnia, lethargy, abnormal dreams, nausea, palpitation, decreased libido, hot flushes, sexual dysfunction, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, dyspepsia, abdominal pain, weight gain, decreased appetite, and erectile dysfunction

SNDRI are used to treat depression. However, it is not approved by the FDA yet. Some SNDRI includes nefazodone and mazindol.

Side effects include nausea, dry mouth, insomnia, dizziness, orthostatic hypotension, sinus bradycardia, impotence, and blurring of vision.

Tricyclics antidepressants can cause more side effects than other types of antidepressants. This is why they are unlikely to be prescribed unless other medications are ineffective.

Examples include amitriptyline (Elavil), desipramine (Norpramin), doxepin (Sinequan), imipramine (Tofranil), nortriptyline (Pamelor), and protriptyline (Vivactil).

Side effects of these drugs are weight gain, orthostasis, hypertension, heart block, erectile dysfunction, ejaculation disorder, dizziness, memory impairment, sedation, lightheadedness, nervousness, insomnia, headache, tremor, nausea and vomiting, difficulty of breathing, diarrhea, constipation, urinary retention, dry mouth, blurring of vision and sweating.

Adverse effects or MAOIs are insomnia, agitation, headache, drowsiness, tremor, fatigue, confusion, blurring of vision, difficulty micturition, dry mouth, sweating, postural hypertension, and sexual dysfunction.

Patients who take MAOIs should AVOID dried, aged, fermented, spoiled, or improperly stored meat, poultry and fish, broad bean pods, aged cheese, tap, and unpasteurized beers and soy products like tofu.

However, they were ALLOWED to eat fresh processed meat, poultry fish, all other vegetables, cheese, ricotta cheese, yogurt, canned or bottled beers, brewer’s and baker’s yeast.

MAOIs can cause Hypertension when taken with decongestants (Phenylephrine, Ephedrine, Psudoephedrine, and Phenylpropanolamine), stimulants (Amphetamine and Methylphenidate), antidepressants (TCAs, NRIs, SNRIs, and NDRIs) and appetite stimulants (Sibutramine, Phentermine).

It can also be lethal causing hyperthermia when taken with antidepressants (TCAs, SSRIs, and SNRIs), appetite stimulants (Sibutramine) and opioids (Dextromethorphan, Meperidine, Tramadol, Methadone, and Propoxyphene).

Prevention

Depression can be severe and life-altering, affecting the quality of life and the happiness of those who live with it. It’s also a common condition. In some cases, it’s possible to prevent depression, even if you’ve already had a previous episode.

There are many lifestyle changes and stress management techniques you can use to prevent or avoid depression. There are certain triggers that can cause us to experience depressive episodes. While triggers may be different for everyone, these are some of the best techniques you can use to prevent or avoid depression relapse.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

There’s no sure way to prevent depression. But you can:

Find ways to handle stress and improve your self-esteem.

Take good care of yourself. Get enough sleep, eat well, and exercise regularly.

Reach out to family and friends when times get hard.

Get regular medical checkups, and see your provider if you don’t feel right.

Get help if you think you’re depressed. If you wait, it could get worse.

Management

Cognitive behavioral therapy

It is a short-term, goal-oriented psychotherapy treatment for patients with major depressive disorder. Its goal is to change the way of thinking and behavior of a person behind their difficulties in order to change the way they feel. It focuses on encouraging patients to think of solutions and to challenge their distorted cognition towards the problems. It rests in the idea that thoughts and perceptions influence behavior. This aims to identify harmful thoughts, assess whether they are an accurate depiction of reality and if they are not, employ strategies to challenge and overcome them.

Interpersonal Therapy

This therapy was developed by Gerald Klerman which focuses on the patient’s current interpersonal problems. There are two explanation for this therapy; first, current interpersonal problems are likely to have their roots in early dysfunctional relationships. Second, current interpersonal problems are involved in increasing symptoms of current depression. Controlled trials have results that interpersonal therapy is effective in the treatment of the major depressive disorder and may be specifically helpful in addressing interpersonal problems. There are studies that prove that this kind of therapy may be the most effective method for severe major depressive episodes when the treatment choice is psychotherapy. It usually consists of 12 to 16 weekly sessions and is characterized by an active therapeutic approach. Defense mechanisms and internal conflicts are not addressed.

Psychoanalytically oriented therapy

This is based on psychoanalytic theories about depression and mania. Its goal is to effect a change in a patient’s personality structure or character and not just to relieve the symptoms. The aims of this therapy include improvement in interpersonal trust, capacity for intimacy, coping mechanisms, ability to experience a wide range of emotions, and the capacity to grieve. This treatment sometimes requires the patient to experience moments of heightened anxiety and distress during the course, which may happen for several years.

Family Therapy

It is not generally viewed as the primary therapy for the treatment of depression, but increasing evidence indicates that helping a patient with a mood disorder to reduce and cope with stress can lessen the chance of a relapse. It is indicated if the disorder is promoted or maintained by the family situation. This therapy examines the role of the mood-disordered member in the overall psychological well-being of the whole family; it also examines the role of the entire family in the maintenance of the patient’s symptoms.

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Indeed, many Black women I know are no strangers to what most mental health professionals would see as depressive and/or anxiety ‘disorders’. The majority of us consider these experiences to come with the territory of having to navigate through injustice and oppression. We call that life. The bio-chemical theories which may account for what seems to only become manifest in structures of domination and subjugation don’t necessarily matter much to us. In spite of the controversy surrounding the article’s publication and subsequent removal from The Guardian’s website, it at least seems to have encouraged a conversation on the emotional needs and experiences of Black and African women. Sadly, these conversations have occurred almost exclusively within a medical/psychiatric model and many websites are now urging Black women to seek support for this ‘illness’. Whilst attempts at encouraging people to seek support for emotional or psychological problems must be applauded, the imprisonment of Black women’s experiences within a medical discourse needs to be questioned. Indeed, it does not speak to all of us. Personally, it was only during the course of my psychology studies that I realized that this recurring feeling of imminent passing out had a medical term: ‘anxiety’ or ‘panic attacks’. Calling this ‘anxiety’ did not provide comfort or reassurance. I did not think: ‘Great, now I know what’s wrong with me’. I felt angry. Angry and invisible. Angry and re-traumatized. Is depression a useful word for Black women? These categories erased the daily onslaughts on my existence whilst positing that I was diseased. I did not feel shame. I did not feel stigma. I felt insulted in my intelligence and in my experience. Many of my friends and relatives would rather drink a bleach cocktail than head for mental health services. Unlike Chimamanda however, most of the Black women I know would not dream of calling what they experience ‘depression’ (or ‘anxiety’ or any other term for mental ‘illnesses’). Although we are all too often conditioned to think so, for many Black women, this approach makes no sense. And why should it? Why should Black women be expected to locate their distress within mainstream psychiatric frameworks—frameworks that have historically been used to pathologize and interiorize us—without resistance? Do not be fooled into thinking for one second that Black women are oblivious to the normalization of the racism and sexism imbedded within psychiatric standards of normality. Some of us may not have the language to articulate this but, given that there is no single aspect of our being that has not been imprisoned by labels, we have learnt the life-limiting impact of being in a world that is pre-emptive of our existence. To me, it seems perfectly adaptive and pragmatic for many of us to refuse yet another label and its associated prejudices and preconceptions. And it is highly disturbing that we would be pathologised for, essentially, resisting further oppression. Putting a medical label onto an experience does not make the experience any more or less real or painful. Nor does it validate it; all it does is just this: it gives it a medical label. The case for a ‘paradigm shift’ Black women’s distress, even within mental health services, is often not seen. Perhaps this is unsurprising if we are forced to adhere to a worldview and use a language that can invalidate our very pain, distress and experience of the world. Yet, it is a language that millions of people accept without question. A language now embraced even by people whose interests may not be served by it. A language which seems to have become a pre-condition for our psychological needs to be seen. A language that, to me, perpetuates centuries of oppression by erasing our experiences and histories as Black women, and which replicates the invisibility of our wounds. It is perfectly within anyone’s rights to choose the name given to any lived experience, without being devalued. If the medical model does help women like Chimamanda make sense of their experience and care for themselves, then this must be respected. However, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that the evidence upon which illness/disease theories (such as chemical imbalance in the brain) are based remains contestable. In its attempt to shift current conceptualisations of emotional distress, the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) issued a position statement on psychiatric diagnoses. The statement makes clear that current psychiatric classification systems and diagnoses have significant limitations—both conceptually and empirically. Further, in making the case for what it calls a ‘paradigm shift’, the DCP highlights the impact of psychiatric diagnoses on the lives of those in distress. These impacts include the marginalisation of lived experience, the decontextualisation of distress and stigmatisation. Encouragingly, the statement also recognises the ‘ethnocentric bias’ inherent within such conceptualisations given that they come out of a Western worldview and, that can translate into discriminatory practices. On one hand, we have come a long way in terms of increasing the relevance and appropriateness of mental health services for racialised groups. Indeed, specialist services have burgeoned in the past decades and various collectives now exist to try and ensure that psychological needs are met in ways that are more congruent to peoples’ values, worldviews, histories and social realities. For example, the Nasfiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre specialises in providing psychotherapy for clients from diverse backgrounds. The Black and Asian Therapist Network (BAATN), a network of well over 800 therapists, counsellors and supporters, seeks to better address the psychological needs of Black and Asian people in the UK. The Afiya Trust and Black Mental Health UK, were set up to help reduce the inequalities in the mental health care for people from BAME groups and African and African-Caribbean communities respectively and, to support these communities increase their strategic influence in the commissioning and developing mental health services. On the other hand, whilst our voices might have got louder, race-based inequalities within the mental health system remain starker than ever, and the training curriculum of most mental health professional is still uncontestably White. As shown in the Care Quality Commission’s Equal Measures report it remains the case that I, as a Black woman, I am more likely to be prescribed psychotropic medication than to be offered therapy; that my chances of being coerced into psychiatric ‘care’ if I am in distress are still much higher than average; and that I am less likely to want to engage with mental health services. A better approach Rather than giving further support to the dominant discourse, the way to encourage Black women to seek support for emotional problems is to make space for other conceptualisations of distress, to allow us to name our experiences and use whichever framework rings true for us. This means accepting with humility that psychiatric diagnoses are just lenses and, as such, they are not the only frameworks that exist to make sense of the world. Though there are relatively few studies looking at the experience of women of colour who have used mental health services, when their voices have been listened to (see, for example, the Mental Health Foundation’s Recovery and resilience report), it has been clear that they have felt restricted or oppressed by mental health services’ dominant view of mental distress as ‘illness’, that they felt their distress was decontextualized, and that alternative views of distress were problematized. Various frameworks do exist to understand and situate our experiences as Black women, including: socio-political, religio-spiritual, inter-generational/ancestral, intersectional approaches, and combinations of any of these or many others. The problem with the current conceptualisations of emotional distress is that they silence other narratives and worldviews and thus further marginalise other epistemologies and ontologies. This restricts our ways of thinking or knowing, and, put simply, perpetuates invisibility and disengagement. Not only is this wounding; it may well prevent the most distressed amongst us to come forward, seek help or speak out. My sincere hope is that powerful women like Chimamanda will champion marginalised and silenced narratives and give credence to explanatory models that are more consistent with Afro-centric worldviews. Doing so may help position our experiences of distress within the struggle for liberation and recognition.

Guilaine Kinouani, The language of distress: Black women's mental health and invisibility "To me, it seems perfectly adaptive and pragmatic for many of us to refuse yet another label and its associated prejudices and preconceptions. And it is highly disturbing that we would be pathologised for, essentially, resisting further oppression. Putting a medical label onto an experience does not make the experience any more or less real or painful. Nor does it validate it; all it does is just this: it gives it a medical label. Black women’s distress, even within mental health services, is often not seen. Perhaps this is unsurprising if we are forced to adhere to a worldview and use a language that can invalidate our very pain, distress and experience of the world. Yet, it is a language that millions of people accept without question. A language now embraced even by people whose interests may not be served by it. A language which seems to have become a pre-condition for our psychological needs to be seen. A language that, to me, perpetuates centuries of oppression by erasing our experiences and histories as Black women, and which replicates the invisibility of our wounds."

#radical mental health #depoliticising distress #psychiatric oppression #pathologising distress #language #psychiatric diagnosis #feminism #guilaine kinouani

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It's time to tackle Post-COVID-19 mental health

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It's time to tackle Post-COVID-19 mental health

Patients suffer delirium, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder

Photo credit: Oscar Navarrete, used with permission.

We human beings tend to trivialise our bodies’ mental and emotional health. We make jokes like “I must be going crazy” or “I have a memory like a sieve”, which could be defence mechanisms against real underlying worries, a way to escape from some cognitive deterioration we are suffering, or maybe just simple ignorance. Any of these situations is valid, as we all act, process, interpret and feel things in our own way. So, let's talk about the effects COVID-19 has on our mental health and how this illness could potentially be causing a deterioration in the cognitive functions of patients who have survived it. This damage could be irreversible if we don't tackle it in the right way. Let's imagine ourselves in Nicaragua, where I'm from, and where there is no plan of action in place to support mental health nor even specific legislation to look after it. As a medical student, I was able to witness and experience my country's health system from the inside, and I could see that it has many weaknesses. Mental health has not been a priority in the country because of successive political crises and natural disasters. The State is negligent and doesn't invest enough in something so highly important as health. As a result, the outlook for Nicaraguan society in terms of a complete recovery for people who have survived COVID-19 is very complicated. After speaking to someone who suffered trauma from not being able to breathe, and reading an article in The Atlantic about delirium syndrome and its relation to the coronavirus, I reached the conclusion that we need to talk about mental health and how mental disorders could get worse in people who have survived COVID-19.

Delirium, or confusional states

We can't talk about COVID-19 without mentioning acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which consists of severe damage to the lungs and a steep drop in arterial oxygen partial pressure (hypoxemia). This syndrome generally requires aggressive treatment such as a mechanical ventilator, and therefore treatment in intensive care to stabilise patients. According to researchers, hypoxaemia, which characterises ARDS, may cause delirium, otherwise known as a “confusional state”, in patients in intensive care. In this state, patients may experience altered awareness and changes to their cognitive function which develop over a long period of time, according to the psychiatric manual written by researchers Juan Lopez-Ibor Aliño y Manuel Valdés Miyar. The Atlantic article features accounts from COVID-19 survivors, who tell of the horror of feeling like their arms and legs are amputated or being at their own funerals. For many years, scientists have studied the direct relationship between ARDS and the creation of a state of delirium in people who are on intensive care wards, but other findings are even more shocking: over time, people who survive these episodes develop cognitive impairment that is undetected in functions such as memory, attention, concentration, processing speed or the executive functions of the brain, as demonstrated by Hopkins et al.

Anxiety and depression

Now let's focus on two conditions that so many people suffer from, and yet very few are aware of: anxiety and depression. According to Nicaraguan psychologist Junieth Cruz, it's very likely that most people have experienced an episode of anxiety at least once in their lives; however, we don't have enough health education recognise the symptoms. Studies relating to surviving intensive care have shown that following their medical discharge, many people develop psychological problems such as nightmares, panic attacks, agoraphobia, anxiety and depression. Moreover, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often present, with people experiencing hyper-vigilance, reliving the traumatic experience, and avoidance. The symptoms of depression appear to improve over the course of the first year, after the patient is discharged, while anxiety lasts for longer than a year, but PTSD is a long-term condition, according to a study by Myhren et al. Meanwhile, H. Rothenhäusler et al have shown that cognitive impairment and its effects can be observed six years after medical discharge, and that only 46% of people would be able to resume their former activities. If we are realistic about the public health crisis caused by COVID-19, how many survivors will be able to receive treatment for their mental health? Will the health authorities do anything to mitigate the mental health crisis following the pandemic? These are just two of the questions we could reflect on, not just in Nicaragua but in many other countries around the world. To summarise, we usually make the mistake of thinking of health as the absence of physical discomfort, without taking into account that to be healthy, we need to consider the balance between physical health and mental health. The demonisation of self-care and the taboo of discussing psychological struggles are things we have to tackle to avoid a spike in psychological and psychiatric patients, bearing in mind the psychological impact the COVID-19 pandemic will have in the medium and long term, and we must be able to swallow our pride and begin to accept help for our mental health. Now more than ever, we must have these discussions regarding everyone's physical and mental well-being and move away from outdated and obsolete statements such as “I'm not going to a therapist because I'm not crazy.”

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Couples Inpatient Drug Rehab North Dakota Addiction Treatment

Informational Page: Couples Inpatient Drug Rehab North Dakota Treatment

Both the American Medical Association (AMA) and the World Health Business (WHO) define drug addiction (also called substance use condition or dependence syndrome) as a “relentless brain health problem”. Put simply, according to a few of the largest and most popular health organizations in the world, addiction is not your fault. That is not to say, however, that you are powerless to dominate it.

Drug abuse over a prolonged amount of time changes the natural chemistry of the brain, and as quickly as dependence has in fact embedded in, it will take a lasting commitment to recuperate and stay sober. In order to achieve healing, you should initially comprehend the nature of addiction, how it happens, how it impacts your mind and body, and how it can be treated. Addiction can be handled however usually needs a good deal of commitment and determination on your part, in addition to the assistance of proficient specialists and therapists to help you through.

This post will explain the nature of addiction and its causes, in addition to the different treatment options easily available. For those of you who are trying to help a taken pleasure in one to attain sobriety, intervention stays in some cases required to help the compound abuser to take beneficial action and battle the power that addiction holds over them.

If you are fighting drug addiction yourself, continue checking out; it is time for you to decide that will change your life, and perhaps even save it. The primary step of the procedure will be at least a week of detox to rid your body of the dangerous physical dependence it has actually formed to illegal compounds.

North Dakota Couples Rehab

Sobriety as a Couple

The information actions of an individual’s addiction rehabilitation process will definitely vary according to the kind of addiction, the treatment strategy used, and also the specific seeking rehab. Nevertheless, all recovery treatments tend to share certain essential elements:

Intake

Detox

Recovery (rehabilitation).

Ongoing Recuperation.

Sober living / Halfway house

Intervention Team: Important Information

An intervention is a structured conversation in between liked ones and an addict, often kept an eye on by an intervention expert. Reliable interventions can assist liked among an addict to expose their experiences constructively.

If just talking with the individual with the concern does not work, a group intervention works next action. Interventions likewise expose addicts how their actions impact those they worth. The objective is to assist the individual is having a tough time to participate in addiction healing and rehabilitation.

Detoxing in Rehab Together

The primary action of the recovery journey is detox. Typically referred to as the most difficult phase of recovery, detox is the treatment of your brain and body ridding themselves of their physical dependence to illegal substances. As rapidly as you have actually truly become physically depending upon drugs, your brain and body no longer bear in mind how to work generally without them. When you begin the detox procedure and abstain from using, your body will be tossed into a sudden and major imbalance, a baffled state triggered by its reliance on the presence and outcomes of drugs. This chemical and physical imbalance develops a series of signs called withdrawal symptoms.

Drug Detox: Is it Necessary?

On the one hand, going through drug detox is inescapable. No matter how you choose to do so or where you are, as quickly as you stop using, your body will go through drug withdrawal. The term detox merely describes handling the withdrawal check in a healthy technique and permitting the withdrawal procedure to run its course.

Due to the fact that of the pain and distress of withdrawal, various drug treatment and treatment procedures cannot be repaired throughout this phase. It refers to handling the withdrawal signs and remaining sober enough time for the body to shed its physical reliance on drugs and get back a typical, healthy balance. As rapidly as this treatment is overall, you will be all set for a harder drug treatment program.

Inpatient Rehab Programs for Couples in North Dakota

Inpatient, or residential, drug treatment requires that the individual receiving treatment for reliances or substance abuse, living in a center for a designated length of time. Inpatient treatment might be either quick or long term depending upon the requirements and situation of the individual. Both structures include comparable therapies. Inpatient treatment does not include cleaning, as that normally happens in a health care facility environment.

Although inpatient treatment can take place in a healthcare facility environment, for most of the parts a residential setting is normal, using 24-hour care and assistance. The most typical method of treatment is a healing area, including the staff and other consumers, focusing on assisting the specific identify the sources and conditions that result in drug abuse. Treatment is similarly used.

Benefits of Inpatient Rehab for Couples

The primary benefit of couples inpatient treatment is access to the therapeutic community. Clients are immersed in a recovery environment in which all are devoted to breaking the addiction. The most successful programs that do not have a set time for release, and develop treatment programs that are tailored to the requirements of the client. During inpatient care, clients establish healing and life skills and start to enhance their function in everyday life.

Programs can consist of:

Comprehensive examination and treatment planning

24-hour nursing supervisionMedication management

Meeting with a psychiatric service provider one or more times a week

A community meeting group

Ongoing evaluation of treatment goals

Individual therapy

Recreational therapy, such as meditation and yoga

Aftercare and discharge planning (an essential element in this level of care)

Everyday group therapy, including specialized groups and peer groups.

Topics might include:

Substance abuse

Introduction to the 12-step program

Grief and loss

Sexuality

Trauma survival

Self-esteemFamily patterns

Assertiveness

Interpersonal relationships

Outpatient Addiction Treatment for Couples- Is it right for you?

Outpatient treatment for substance abuse can be the very best choice if you have the motivation to get sober however can’t leave from work, interrupt school presence or step far from other duties in order to stay at an inpatient rehab center. However the most credible treatment– whether a residential program or outpatient drug rehab– in truth depends upon the strength of your drug abuse and whether you’re likewise experiencing related medical or mental health problems. Addiction to alcohol or other drugs is thought about a spectrum condition, showing the condition can be classified as moderate, moderate or severe.

A North Dakota Couples outpatient rehab programs work best for those with moderate or moderate substance abuse symptoms.

An inpatient program is a far better ideal for people on the more extreme end of the spectrum together with those with co-occurring disorders such as stress and anxiety, stress and anxiety or injury.

Types of Outpatient Rehab Programs Available

Outpatient drug rehab programs differ in a variety of days per week and hours each day of presence. The best outpatient program depends on your treatment needs. Below are the 3 most typical outpatient options:

Day Treatment

Also referred to as partial hospitalization, this is the highest level of outpatient alcohol and drug rehab, typically meeting 5 to seven days a week for around 6 hours a day. Some individuals begin drug rehab in day treatment and others shift into this level of care after completing inpatient addiction treatment.

Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program (IOP).

Comprehensive outpatient programs are normally used at a range of times to accommodate hectic schedules. Day and night options provide participants a chance to continue with work, participate in school or look after obligations in your home. Some individuals begin treatment in comprehensive outpatient and others shift in from an inpatient or day program

Continuing Care Groups.

Sometimes described as aftercare, these therapy groups usually meet one day a week. Various are specific to a specific customer population, such as guys or women, older grownups, healthcare professionals or people with opioid addiction.

What are the main benefits of attending an outpatient program?

Less Commitment: On average, outpatient care requires less time and money to complete.

Greater Privacy: As outpatient rehab allows you to keep up with your daily life, you will likely not have to disclose to employers or friends that you are receiving treatment.

Greater Autonomy: In outpatient care, you hold yourself accountable on a daily basis, but can receive medical support when needed.

Collective Support: Individual counseling, along with group and family therapy, will help you build your network of supporters and stay strong in sobriety.

Main ask Inpatient Vs. Outpatient Care?

There are a number of differences in between inpatient and outpatient care. Inpatient care is a more severe level of care than outpatient care, which is typically an action down from inpatient care. Unlike inpatient care, outpatient treatment does not need customers to stay overnight. Consumers can worry about the center frequently (daily, weekly, and so on) for a set range of hours a week, and go home after their session. This enables them to keep their work schedule and tend to any other off-site obligations. Care is less substantial than the inpatient level, as clients usually no longer requirement day-and-night care.

Feel free to ask any of our expert staff which treatment is right for you.

Sober living for Couples

A reputable rehab program can leave you feeling that your life has actually in truth been modified on all levels. While the changes in your body, mind, and spirit can be thorough, they will not last if you return to your hazardous ideas and habits. Aftercare services assist you keep the coping capabilities you found in rehab, so you can continue to develop the healthy, satisfying life you desire after you complete from a healing program. Even for individuals who are devoted to recovery, relapse after rehab is more like the rule than the exception. According to Psychology of Addicting Practices, relapse rates amongst adults and teens who have actually ended up a rehab program are as high as 80 percent

Most statistics mention that relapse rates amongst individuals with consuming conditions are simply as hard, with roughly half returning to their old routines within the very first year of healing.

Whether you’re coping alcoholism, prescription substance abuse, marijuana dependence, or an eating condition, research studies expose that relapse is a common indicator of addicting routines. In the period after rehab, aftercare services supply valuable assistance to assist you to stay on track with your recovery goals.

The functions of Sober Living

The function of aftercare isn’t merely to keep you from drinking, using drugs, or going back to harmful consuming practices. The ultimate function is to keep you participated in recovery as you make the shift from rehab to truth. For some people, this may recommend preventing addicting behavior totally. Others may go back to their old practices. As you deal with the issues of a sober life, aftercare services can assist you in the following approaches:

By assisting you to make healthy options about your way of life, activities, and relationships

By enhancing the skills you discovered for handling stress and strong feelings

By mentoring you how to identify your own triggers and prevent a relapse

By mentoring you how to reduce the damage of a relapse if you do slip back into ravaging behavior

By providing you access to helping individuals and groups who can help you through the healing process

If you’re looking for a rehab facility on your own or take pleasure in one, choosing a center with a strong aftercare program ought to be one of the most essential parts of your option. Noted below are a few of the most essential resources and services to try to find.

FIND THE HELP TODAY

By now you understand that there are a lot of remarkable programs that help individuals effectively accomplish abstinence. Discovering the absolute best of the very best requires that you do a little substantial research study to discover the technique that various centers take in their treatment programs. Some elements to ask about consist of:

Therapy techniques (e.g., the amount of group vs. specific sessions; specific behavioral restorative methods used, such as CBT, MI, etc.).

Does the outpatient program provide particular treatment medications, if required?

How the program adjust to the altering requirements of the client.

Does the program take a health-centered method that handles all aspects of patient health.

Ask your local doctor today!

Finding a North Dakota couples drug rehab for you and your partner can be achieved by calling our couples rehabs 24/7 helpline.

The best couples rehabilitation centers in North Dakota use a no-cost insurance protection evaluation over the phone and let you and your partner comprehend what kind of security you have for addiction treatment.

CALL TODAY US TODAY FOR YOUR FREE CONSULTATION SET UP

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Couples Inpatient Drug Rehab North Dakota Addiction Treatment

Informational Page: Couples Inpatient Drug Rehab North Dakota Treatment

North Dakota Couples Rehab

Sobriety as a Couple

Intake

Detox

Recovery (rehabilitation).

Ongoing Recuperation.

Sober living / Halfway house

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Benefits of Inpatient Rehab for Couples

Programs can consist of:

Comprehensive examination and treatment planning

24-hour nursing supervisionMedication management

Meeting with a psychiatric service provider one or more times a week

A community meeting group

Ongoing evaluation of treatment goals

Individual therapy

Recreational therapy, such as meditation and yoga

Aftercare and discharge planning (an essential element in this level of care)

Everyday group therapy, including specialized groups and peer groups.

Topics might include:

Substance abuse

Introduction to the 12-step program

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Sexuality

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Self-esteemFamily patterns

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Outpatient Addiction Treatment for Couples- Is it right for you?

A North Dakota Couples outpatient rehab programs work best for those with moderate or moderate substance abuse symptoms.

An inpatient program is a far better ideal for people on the more extreme end of the spectrum together with those with co-occurring disorders such as stress and anxiety, stress and anxiety or injury.

Types of Outpatient Rehab Programs Available

Day Treatment

Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program (IOP).

Continuing Care Groups.

What are the main benefits of attending an outpatient program?

Less Commitment: On average, outpatient care requires less time and money to complete.

Greater Privacy: As outpatient rehab allows you to keep up with your daily life, you will likely not have to disclose to employers or friends that you are receiving treatment.

Greater Autonomy: In outpatient care, you hold yourself accountable on a daily basis, but can receive medical support when needed.

Collective Support: Individual counseling, along with group and family therapy, will help you build your network of supporters and stay strong in sobriety.

Main ask Inpatient Vs. Outpatient Care?

Feel free to ask any of our expert staff which treatment is right for you.

Sober living for Couples

Most statistics mention that relapse rates amongst individuals with consuming conditions are simply as hard, with roughly half returning to their old routines within the very first year of healing.

The functions of Sober Living

By assisting you to make healthy options about your way of life, activities, and relationships

By enhancing the skills you discovered for handling stress and strong feelings

By mentoring you how to identify your own triggers and prevent a relapse

By mentoring you how to reduce the damage of a relapse if you do slip back into ravaging behavior

By providing you access to helping individuals and groups who can help you through the healing process

FIND THE HELP TODAY

Therapy techniques (e.g., the amount of group vs. specific sessions; specific behavioral restorative methods used, such as CBT, MI, etc.).

Does the outpatient program provide particular treatment medications, if required?

How the program adjust to the altering requirements of the client.

Does the program take a health-centered method that handles all aspects of patient health.

Ask your local doctor today!

Finding a North Dakota couples drug rehab for you and your partner can be achieved by calling our couples rehabs 24/7 helpline.

CALL TODAY US TODAY FOR YOUR FREE CONSULTATION SET UP

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Mindful and military: Why mindfulness training is a crucial tool for veterans

“Mindfulness is a universal human capacity — a way of paying attention to the present moment unfolding of experience — that can be cultivated, sustained and integrated into everyday life through in-depth inquiry, fuelled by the ongoing discipline of meditation practice. Its central aim is the relief of suffering and the uncovering of our essential nature.” ( Santorelli, Heal Thy Self, 2010)

After the battle is over, the fighting starts The mental health needs of military veterans continue to be the focus for numerous research studies and of concern to the general public.

The estimated demand for services varies widely and the impact of these conditions on individuals, which lie behind the statistics, are frequently downplayed by defence departments in their general purpose communications:

“Fortunately, the rates of conditions like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in our people remain low…” (Ministry of Defence, 2017, p.5).

However, a recent systematic review and meta-analysis from Sharp et al (2015), indicates that the prevalence of any mental health disorders in both serving and military veterans is in the region of 37%. Of this group, they report that between 40–60% of these individuals don’t seek help. It is speculated that this is due to the ‘macho’ culture of the military and the stigma of being consider weak if presenting with a mental health issue. It is reported that of those who do come forward for treatment, 60–70% do not receiving adequate help and that they continue to suffer.

It is reported that of those who do come forward for treatment, 60–70% do not receiving adequate help and that they continue to suffer.

Behind these statistics are the often forgotten families and loved ones who become primary carers for these very troubled individuals and therefore, the overall impact of PTSD, for example, should never be underestimated (Beks, 2016). The suffering reaches far and wide as family members become at high risk of developing their own mental health issues due to the burden they carry. It was also recommended, many years ago, that they too should receive appropriate interventions (Gaskell, 2005). Two reasons why The Walnut Tree will be unveiling a new, unique ‘affected others’ course in Spring 2018.

Although PTSD is less prevalent in military veterans than other common mental health conditions at 4% vs 19.6% (MacManus et al, 2014), PTSD provides an interesting focus when considering Mindfulness Training (MT), because of the involvement of a range of behavioural symptoms. For ease of diagnosis these are grouped into four main clusters namely:

Re-experience Spontaneous memories of trauma, recurrent dreams associated with trauma, flashbacks, periods of prolonged psychological stress Area of brain affected: Hippocampus and Amygdala

Avoidance (of) Distressing memories, thoughts, feelings, or external reminders of traumatic events Area of brain affected: Hippocampus

Negative cognitions and mood A range of feelings including persistent and overwhelming distorted sense of blame of self and others. A significant loss of interest in activities, with estrangement from loved ones and others. Inability to remember key aspects of traumatic event Area of brain affected: Hippocampus and Pre Frontal Cortex (PFC)

Arousal Displays as aggression, reckless behavioural, sleep disturbance, hypervigilence Area of brain affected: Amygdala

There is also a PTSD subtype of disassociation: experiences of feeling detached from mind or body, or experiences in which the world seems unreal, dreamlike or distorted. Area of brain affected: Hippocampus (Adapted from American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p.2)

A unique programme providing the help required The Veterans’ Stabilisation Programme (VSP) is a unique evidence based programme from Walnut Tree Health and Wellbeing C.I.C in conjunction with Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust. It was conceived by army veteran Luke Woodley, who himself suffered from PTSD, and failed over many years to find appropriate help (NSFT, 2017). In conjunction with clinical psychologist Roger Kingerlee PhD and John King, a mindfulness practitioner, Woodley, using his lived-experience and extensive research, set about redressing this paradigm for veterans suffering mental ill-health as a result of complex trauma (Kingerlee et al, 2016). The VSP provides veterans with the discipline and skills to manage every day life. This cognitive based group training helps to:

recognise current mindset and develop skills to change it

understand the psychology behind PTSD to gain a greater sense of control

manage and understand difficult thoughts and feelings

reduce dependance on alcohol and drugs

improve relationships

teach the discipline and tools of mindfulness

Mindfulness, when delivered appropriately, is so much more than any of the recent ‘McMindfulness’ pejorative tags. The research literature suggests, it can have profound and far-reaching positive effects as indicated by some of the latest research for example: cultivation of compassion for self and others (Khoury et al, 2015), reduction in stress, anxiety and depression (Khoury et al., 2013) and increase in positive moods (Eberth & Sedlmeier, 2012). Such evidence would suggest that MT has earned its place in the psycho-education of veterans to help them better self-manage their mental health issues (Khusid et al, 2016).

The brain’s most important job and how it is affected by PTSD Current research is particularly useful in improving our understanding of what happens to the human brain that is ‘suffering’ the effects of PTSD. The work of Mahan and Ressler (2012), reviews how the neural pathways associated with PTSD in humans is linked to the neural pathways relating to fear.

These pathways belong to the limbic system synonymous with emotional processing. The three brain areas most affected by PTSD are the amygdala, the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex (PFC).

Source: Mahan, A. L and Ressler, K. J., (2012) A schematic of the human brain showing how the limbic system is involved in PTSD. In: Fear conditioning, synaptic plasticity and the amygdala: implications for post traumatic stress disorder. Trends in Neuroscience

The most important job of the brain is to ensure survival at all costs.

The most important job of the brain is to ensure survival at all costs. To be able to do this effectively it needs to be able to achieve the following:

signal what the body requires moment to moment eg: food, sleep, sex

develop a ‘map of the world’ to know where to safely find what will satisfy

create the appropriate action and energy to get there

highlight threats and opportunities along the way

modify actions to suit current situation

Each structure in the brain works towards one or more these aims. The primitive, reptilian (bottom) part of the brain is responsible for all the life sustaining activities of a human being; for example eating, sleeping and breathing. It is responsible for maintaining an internal balance called homeostasis. Any one of these myriad of functions can become unbalanced and cause psychological problems.

Above the primitive brain sits the limbic system which is common to all animals that nurture their young and live together in groups. This is the seat of preferences (likes and dislikes), emotions and the centre of dealing with the rigours of living in complex social settings. The reptilian brain and the limbic system form ‘the emotional brain’. It acts like a welfare officer, looking out for threats and acting accordingly without any reference to the ‘thinking’ part of the brain called the neocortex.

When under a perceived threat, it will automatically run ‘preset’ programmes like the flight, freeze or fight responses. It is in these parts of the brain where the amygdala and hypothalamus can be found (see diagram).

The amygdala acts like the body’s alarm system, monitoring stimuli picked up via the body’s sense organs. If the thalamus has failed to make sense of these sensations, as it does in PTSD, and allows them to become fragmented, the hippocampus, which is responsible for normal memory processing breaks down, causing time to ‘freeze�� giving the impression that the incoming danger will last forever. The alarm is triggered. Heart rate is increased and blood pressure rises, the body could already be on the move before the rational brain has had time to think. The body is now awash with potent stress hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol. Under normal circumstances, when the threat is over the body returns to a state of homeostasis.

The prefrontal lobes of the neocortex (PFC — top brain), which sits upper most in the brain, is the site of humans’ ability to reflect, plan, imagine and empathise with others. It is here that the fine edge between impulsive behaviour and acceptable behaviour occurs — this is where choice is made. It plays a ‘command centre’ role. It is the place of discernment. If fear is felt and smoke is detected, this allows for rational thought to occur around is there immediate danger in the home or has a neighbour just lit a bonfire. In PTSD, the amygdala is hyper-responsive and the hippocampus and the PFC show reduced activation, the balance has shifted and the symptoms of PTSD start to show. If balance is to be restored there are two options, work on regulating from the top-down or the bottom-up. For Bessel Van Der Kolk, one of the world’s leading experts on traumatic stress, “mindfulness… is a cornerstone of recovery from trauma.” (Der Kolk, 2014, p.96) If the PFC is to be strengthened (top down) working with mindfulness to become more aware of the body’s sensations is a good place to start. Formal practices around the body scan and mindful movement can be helpful here (Farb et al, 2007).

Bottom up regulation via the ‘emotional’ brain can again call upon mindfulness to assist, for example via breathing practices as the breath is both under the influence of both the conscious and autonomic control (Taren et al, 2015).

Christine Forner, a registered clinical social worker with over 17 years of working with complex trauma, takes the importance of mindfulness in the recovery of traumatised individuals one stage further. She postulates that a traumatised brain functions mindlessly or at least is absent of mindfulness. She regards a well functioning medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) as the epitome of mindfulness. This is based, in part, on Siegel’s work The Mindful Brain (2007) around the nine functions of the mPFC:

body regulation

attuned communication

emotional balancing

response flexibility

empathy

insight

conditioned fear modulation

intuition

morality

It appears that Forner doesn’t just want to return her clients to where they were, but sees the opportunity for growth through trauma informed mindfulness practices. Experience at The Walnut Tree would support this. “It is knowing how hard it is to become mindful when someone has been dissociating that we can figure out how to help our clients get back on track and find within themselves the place of mindful contentment.” (Forner, 2017, p.41)

Through understanding of what is happening in the various areas in the brain when under the influence of PTSD, those who specialise in the alleviation of trauma can begin to align MT appropriately. In short, different mindfulness practices can be targetted to work on the various affected parts of the brain and this should be a major consideration in any design of a MT course.

The VSP does not sit in glorious isolation at Walnut Tree Health and Wellbeing. The organisation has been built on a foundation of mindfulness and compassion for ourselves and others. Mindfulness meditation is practised by all the directors and there is a non-judgmental and compassionate culture. As the statistics show many of those suffering from trauma will not present unless the environment is perceived as welcoming.

The definition of mindfulness that is used on the course highlights that mindfulness is a skill that can be learnt. It ‘promises’ a way of coping with upcoming experiences. An emphasis is place on this new found practice as being a part of daily life, it stresses that it is a discipline — an attitude that is highly understood by military personnel.

It explains the purpose of mindfulness training — the relief of suffering.

Sue Wright is Director, Operations and a Wellbeing and Recovery Coach at Walnut Tree Health and Wellbeing C.I.C, headquartered in Norfolk, UK. She served with the Royal Navy and is now studying for an MSc in Mindfulness Studies at University of Aberdeen. Sue is powered by tea.

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