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Setting boundaries may feel like it's selfish and mean to others, but they're actually an important part of healthy relationships and self-care. Having boundaries around what you're willing to take in and put out doesn't make you a mean person or a bad person; it's a healthy way of coping with the world.

Boundaries act like a membane between us and the world around us, managing what we let in as well as what we let out. They keep our inner experiences distinct from other people's. In the case of enmeshment, boundaries are sufficiently weak that they don't keep both people's inner experiences separate. There are multiple different kinds of boundaries, including physical, emotional, mental, sexual, material, and time. You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post.

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Cognitive remediation is sort of like a mental form of exercise that helps to promote neuroplasticity. It's shown benefits in a number of different health conditions, including schizophrenia and eating disorders. Some of the strategies it involves include: -Breaking tasks into smaller steps -Chunking information -Using mnemonics -Categorization -Planning You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post on Mental Health @ Home.

Neuroplasticity refers to the brain's ability to make structural and functional changes, including forming new neurl connections, in response to our experiences and environment. There are a number of strategies that can promote neuroplasticity, including learning new languages, expanding yoru vocabulary, using your non-dominant hand, creating artwork, reading, learning new sills, doing puzzles, and mindfulness meditation. You can learn more in this Inights Into Psychology blog post.

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The just world fallacy is a type of cognitive bias. We naturally want to think that the world is fair, and bad things only happen to bad people or people who have done the wrong thing. Victim-blaming helps to support the just-world fallacy, as if the victim did something "wrong", then the world can still be fair and we can still be safe. People who are conservative, religious, or authoritarian tend to believe more strongly in the just world fallacy.

Heuristics are cognitive rules of thumb that our minds for more efficient (although not necessarily more accurate) processing. Examples include: -Anchoring & adjustment: we evaluate value based on initial pricing information -Availability: we judge frequency based on what comes to mind first -Familiarity: we're more likely to believe things that are familiar -Scarcity: we perceive things that are scarcer to be more valuable -Social proof: we're more apt to like things if we see that others do

The frequency illusion, also known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, is a type of cognitive bias. It means that after we've noticed or learned about something, it suddenly seems like we're seeing it everywhere. It results from selective attention (we only encode into memory information that passes through our attention filter) and confirmation bias. You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post. #psychology

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Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) identifies a variety of common cognitive distortions, including all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, emotional reasoning, fortune-telling, mind-reading, overgeneralization, shoulds, blaming, disqualifying the positive, and filtering out the positive. You can find out more about what these cognitive distortions involve in this blog post. #cbt #cognitivebehavioraltherapy #cognitivedistortions #psychology #mentalhealth

Many of us are carrying around a lot of "shoulds". Shoulds are a type of cognitive distortion that involves setting arbitrary expectations for ourselves, often based on what we think others expect from us. But there's a lot of power in saying no to shoulds, and instead focusing on your needs and wants, as well as things that are consistent with your values. So here's a challenge: can you say no to your shoulds for the next week? #shoulds #cognitivedistortions #cbt #psychology #mentalhealth

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Self-esteem involves perceiving various asepcts of the self-concept in a positive way. It's not the same thing as self-importance (i.e. thinking oneself is more important than others), and it can co-exist with self-doubt about one's abilities to do particular tasks. Self-esteem can be boosted by setting realistic goals, not expecting perfection, minimizing comparisons to others, using realistic affirmations, and practicing self-compassion.

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Even if childhood didn't do you any favours in terms of developing self-esteem, it's not too late to start working on it in adulthood. Avoiding perfectionism is important (not that it's easy), along with replacing self-criticism with self-compassion. It also helps to use realistic (but not over-the-top) affirmations and recognize your achievements. #selfesteem #perfectionism #selfcriticism #selfcompassion #psychology #mentalhealth

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Yes, happiness comes from within, not from external sources, but that doesn't mean that it's always available. It's an emotion, and emotions aren't fully under our control. Sometimes, mental illnesses like depression can remove happiness from the menu of available options, and you can't choose what isn't available.

Have you ever been so mad you felt like you were going to explode with rage? Or maybe you did explode by saying things you did not mean, or did things you usually wouldn’t do, due to pint up anger and other emotions. Being angry about certain situations and things is normal. Going into a complete rage and losing yourself is not. Read more at motivationalcopingandhealing.com

Emotional intelligence is a psychological constuct that's defined in different ways by different people. The original definition involved 4 different elements: -the ability to perceive, evaluate, and express emotions accurately -the ability to access emotions to support cognition -the ability to understand emotional messages and to make use of emotional information -the ability to regulate emotions to promote well-being You can find out more in the linked Insights Into Psychology blog post.

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Psychologist Susan Silk developed the concept of ring theory to describe how to support people in times of crisis, loss, and grief. In ring theory, there are concentric rings of affected people moving out from the most affected person. Silk suggested that comfort should be offered to people who are closest to the most affect person, and dumping (i.e. expression of difficult feelings) is best directed towards people who are less affected. #ringtheory #grief #loss #psychology

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The dark triad is a combination of three personality traits, and it's associated with increased antisocial behaviour. These traits are Machiavellianism and subclinical narcissism and psychopathy. The dark tetrad also includes sadism. You can find out more in the linked Insights Into Psychology blog post.

Neuroticism is one of the personality traits identified in the Big Five model. It involves a tendency to experience negative emotions, and stress leads to a sense of uncontrollability, inability to cope, and negative emotions. It increases the risk of certain mental illnesses (like depression and anxiety disorders) and physical disorders (like irritable bowel syndrome and asthma). #personality

Our society seems to expect extraversion, but only about a third of people are actually extraverted. About 20% of people are introverted, and the majority are actually ambiverted, meaning they're partly extraverted and partly introverted. You can find out more in this blog post on Mental Health @ Home.

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Resilience is the ability to adapt in order to maintain well-being when faced with stress and adversity. Some of the things that we can do to support greater resilience include self-care, maintaining supportive and trusting relationships, balancing different areas of our lives, and aligning our actions with our values. You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology post on Mental Health @ Home.

Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties & tough situations. The problems can be family issues, workplace stress or serious health problems. Resilient person stays positive and easily cope with nay kind of stress. Here are some ways to improve resilience... #stressmanagement #mentalhealth

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The impostor syndrome cycle begins with anxiety and self-doubt about a task. To try to manage this anxiety, people may over-prepare or procrastinate until the last minute. Once the task is completed, any positive feedback is discounted, and the individual fears being exposed as a fraud, which fuels further task-related anxiety. Risk factors for impostor syndrome include depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and perfectionism.

Perfectionism doesn't actually make people perfect, because perfect really doesn't exist. To err is human, and in case you forgot, you happen to be one of those. You will mistakes, not because you're a bad person or not enoguh, but because making mistakes is a fundamentally human thing to do. You can find more coping statements to remind yourself of in tough moments in Mental Health @ Home's Coping Toolkit.

Impostor syndrome starts with anxiety related to a task, which is coped with by either over-preparing or leaving it until the last minute. Any positive feedback is discounted, and the individual fears being exposed as a fraud. This feeds into even more task-related anxiety and keeps the whole cycle going. Imposotor syndrome isn't an illness, but it can occur in the context of depression and anxiety. You can read more in the linked blog post.

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Pluralistic ignorance is a social psychological phenomenon that involves people going along with what's perceived to be the group norm, when in fact the majority of people actually don't agree with it. You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post. #socialpsychology #psychology

Herd behaviour is a psychological phenomenon that makes us tap into our inner sheep when faced with unfamiliar threats. This can contribute to things like panic buying toilet paper. You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post on Mental Health @ Home. #psychology #socialpsychology #behavior

Deindividuation is a social psychological process by which individuals lose a sense of self outside of the group they belong to. It can lead to people engaging in behaviours that would otherwise go against their own desires or beliefs. It's more likely to occur in groups where there is a strong desire to belong and a strong push for group identity and cohesiveness, which may involve the use of representative symbols. #psychology #socialpsychology #groupdynamics

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Not all stress is bad. In fact, eustress is a good thing that improves focus and performance by making us feel motivated, determined, or excited. The problematic kind is distress, which makes us feel anxious, overwhelmed, or frsutrated, and impairs focus and performance. You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post.

Not all stress is bad for us; while distress can be harmful, eustress can actually be helpful. Distress makes us feel anxious, overwhelmed, or frustrated, and it impairs focus and performance. Eustress makes us feel motivated, determined, or exicted, and boosts focus and performance.

The stress bucket model is one way of conceptualizing how we deal with stress. Stressors fill up the bucket, the capacity of which is influenced by vulnerabilities we may have, such as mental illness. Adaptive coping skills release stress from the bucket, while maladaptive coping skills siphon it bak up to the top. The Mental Health @ Home Coping Toolkit has more tips and tricks to help support your well-being.

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It's not reasonable to expect that we will only have "positive" emotions, despite the pervasive toxic positivity messaging. Emotions are our midn and body's way of reacting to things, and they have a message to communicate to us, even if that isn't very comfortable. If a beloved family member or pet died, would you want to feel happy? Of course not.

Some emotions might be more pleasant/comfortable than others, but they all have something to communicate to us, and they're all valid, despite toxic positivity messaging that says otherwise. If you don't resist/judge them, they will naturally come and go on their own.

"Today, I am brimming with energy and overflowing with joy." "My ability to conquer my challenges is limitless; my potential to succeed is infinite." "My obstacles are moving out of my way; my path is carved towards greatness." Sometimes people will encourage affirmations that simply aren't realistic (or are blatantly untrue). Research has shown that repeating such affirmations can make people with high self-esteem feel a bit better, but they end to make people with low self-esteem feel worse.

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Psychologist Abraham Maslow identified five levels of human needs: phsyiological, safety, love & belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. You can use this worksheet to reflect on what needs are or aren't being met, and what you can do to address those needs. There's more on Maslow's hierarchy in this Insights Into Psychology blog post.

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While it can be very tempting to stay in our comfort zone, often, the comfort zone isn't actually all that comfortable; it's more like familiar misery. Staying there is unlikely to make things better, and it could very well make things worse, whereas change opens up the possibility of things improving, and getting into a zone where you feel pretty good. Psychiatric Medications, Cognitive Distortions, Cognitive Bias, Emotions, Feelings, Psychiatry, Positive Change, Comfort Zone, Self Esteem

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While it can be very tempting to stay in our comfort zone, often, the comfort zone isn't actually all that comfortable; it's more like familiar misery. Staying there is unlikely to make things better, and it could very well make things worse, whereas change opens up the possibility of things improving, and getting into a zone where you feel pretty good.

Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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The impostor syndrome cycle begins with anxiety and self-doubt about a task. To try to manage this anxiety, people may over-prepare or procrastinate until the last minute. Once the task is completed, any positive feedback is discounted, and the individual fears being exposed as a fraud, which fuels further task-related anxiety. Risk factors for impostor syndrome include depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and perfectionism.

Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Repression and suppression are both Freudian defense mechanisms. Repression involves involuntarily pushing distressing thoughts/feelings out of conscious awareness, while suppression involves voluntary efforts to do the same thing. Defense Mechanisms, Family Therapy, Freud, Personality Traits, Thoughts And Feelings

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Repression and suppression are both Freudian defense mechanisms. Repression involves involuntarily pushing distressing thoughts/feelings out of conscious awareness, while suppression involves voluntary efforts to do the same thing.

Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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It's not reasonable to expect that we will only have "positive" emotions, despite the pervasive toxic positivity messaging. Emotions are our midn and body's way of reacting to things, and they have a message to communicate to us, even if that isn't very comfortable. If a beloved family member or pet died, would you want to feel happy? Of course not. Positive Emotions, Negative Emotions, Feeling Happy

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It's not reasonable to expect that we will only have "positive" emotions, despite the pervasive toxic positivity messaging. Emotions are our midn and body's way of reacting to things, and they have a message to communicate to us, even if that isn't very comfortable. If a beloved family member or pet died, would you want to feel happy? Of course not.

Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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There are a number of concepts that impostor syndrome overlaps with but isn't necessarily the same thing. These including masking mental illness or neurodiversity, a sense of inadquacy, and feeling like one doesn't socially belong. The linked blog post on Mental Health @ Home explores these area of overlaps as well as the differences between them.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Attention is the process by which we attend to certain sensory output and filter out others. There are several models for this, but basically input comes in from the senses, and this is filtered based on certain characteristics to go on to further processing and entering working memory. We can't remember things that got filtered out and never made it into memory in the first place. Cognitive Psychology, Working Memory, Physical Properties, Syllable

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Attention is the process by which we attend to certain sensory output and filter out others. There are several models for this, but basically input comes in from the senses, and this is filtered based on certain characteristics to go on to further processing and entering working memory. We can't remember things that got filtered out and never made it into memory in the first place.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Cognitive remediation is sort of like a mental form of exercise that helps to promote neuroplasticity. It's shown benefits in a number of different health conditions, including schizophrenia and eating disorders. Some of the strategies it involves include: -Breaking tasks into smaller steps -Chunking information -Using mnemonics -Categorization -Planning You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post on Mental Health @ Home. Thinking Strategies, Neuroplasticity, Schizophrenia, Mnemonics, Eating Disorder

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Cognitive remediation is sort of like a mental form of exercise that helps to promote neuroplasticity. It's shown benefits in a number of different health conditions, including schizophrenia and eating disorders. Some of the strategies it involves include: -Breaking tasks into smaller steps -Chunking information -Using mnemonics -Categorization -Planning You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post on Mental Health @ Home.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Yes, happiness comes from within, not from external sources, but that doesn't mean that it's always available. It's an emotion, and emotions aren't fully under our control. Sometimes, mental illnesses like depression can remove happiness from the menu of available options, and you can't choose what isn't available. Happiness Comes From Within, Happiness Is A Choice

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Yes, happiness comes from within, not from external sources, but that doesn't mean that it's always available. It's an emotion, and emotions aren't fully under our control. Sometimes, mental illnesses like depression can remove happiness from the menu of available options, and you can't choose what isn't available.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Thought-action fusion, which is common in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), involves the belief that there is an equivalence between thoughts and actions. This may relate to likelihood (i.e the belief that thinking about something makes it more likely to happen) or moral equivalence (i.e. the belief that thinking about an action is the moral equivalent of performing the action). You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post. Cognitive Development, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Child Development, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Addictive Personality, Learned Helplessness, What Is Thinking, Adverse Childhood Experiences

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Thought-action fusion, which is common in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), involves the belief that there is an equivalence between thoughts and actions. This may relate to likelihood (i.e the belief that thinking about something makes it more likely to happen) or moral equivalence (i.e. the belief that thinking about an action is the moral equivalent of performing the action). You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Stop Overthinking Your Relationship: Break the Cycle of Anxious Rumination to Nurture Love, Trust & Connection with Your Partner by Alicia Muñoz – Click through on the link to read the book review on Mental Health @ Home

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Thought-action fusion, which is common in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), involves the belief that there is an equivalence between thoughts and actians. In likelihood thought-action fusion, people believe that thinking about something makes it more likely that that thing will happen, when in moral thought-action fusion, having a thought about something happening is believed to be the moral equivalent of that thing actually happening.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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There are two different kinds of empathy: cognitive and emotional. Cognitive empathy is the ability to infer and understand others' emotional experiences from their perspective. This perspective-taking requires theory of mind. Emotional aka affective) empathy is the ability to share others' emotions, and miirror neurons appear to play a role. You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post. Mirror Neuron, Compassion Fatigue, Perspective Taking, Inference

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There are two different kinds of empathy: cognitive and emotional. Cognitive empathy is the ability to infer and understand others' emotional experiences from their perspective. This perspective-taking requires theory of mind. Emotional aka affective) empathy is the ability to share others' emotions, and miirror neurons appear to play a role. You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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In cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), safety behaviours are strategies the you think make you safer, but they actually don't—all they do is reinforce your anxiety. Dropping the safety behaviours is an important part of creating effective exposures so that your amygdala can learn that a feared situation doesn't actually pose a threat.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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While you may be exposed to a lot of messaging that you're supposed to be productive all of the time, life should be about more than your to do list. You deserve down time to just do your own thing, and you shouldn't have to justify that to the promoters of toxic porductivity.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Memory isn't just a single thing; there are multiple types. Explicit memory is under conscious control and involves factual information. Implicit memory is not under conscious control, and includes procedural memories (i.e. remembering how to do things) and emotional memories (including trauma memories). There is both short-term and long-term memory, and sleep is a crucial time for the consolidation of long-term meories.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Emotional empathy, also known as affective empathy, is the ability to share the emotions of others. Brain cells called mirror neurons appear to play a role in this. Cognitive empathy requires theory of mind, and relates to our abiility to infer and understand someone's emotional experiences from their perspective. Conditions like autism and schizophrenia can impair cognitive empathy. You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post. Sympathy Vs Empathy, Empathy Quotes

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Emotional empathy, also known as affective empathy, is the ability to share the emotions of others. Brain cells called mirror neurons appear to play a role in this. Cognitive empathy requires theory of mind, and relates to our abiility to infer and understand someone's emotional experiences from their perspective. Conditions like autism and schizophrenia can impair cognitive empathy. You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Some emotions might be more pleasant/comfortable than others, but they all have something to communicate to us, and they're all valid, despite toxic positivity messaging that says otherwise. If you don't resist/judge them, they will naturally come and go on their own. Recovery Quotes, Quotes And Notes, Emotional Abuse

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Some emotions might be more pleasant/comfortable than others, but they all have something to communicate to us, and they're all valid, despite toxic positivity messaging that says otherwise. If you don't resist/judge them, they will naturally come and go on their own.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) identifies three different mental systems: the threat, drive, and caregiving systmes. When these are imbalanced, distress can be the result. CFT aims to boost self-compassion to strengthen the caregiving system. You can find out more in the linked Insights Into Psychology blog post.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Rumination involves repetitive thinking about a problem without ever progressing to thinking about solutions. It can impair problem-solving and increase the risk for depression. Contributing factors include the belief that rumination is a useful process, perfectionism, high levels of the personality trait neuroticism, and a history of trauma. You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Sleep involves altered consciousness and decreased reactivity to the environment. It's a time when various body systems shift to an anabolic state to build back up things that have been broken down during the day. There are several stages of sleep, with two different kinds of sleep: REM (rapid eye movement) and non-REM ( Which includes slow-wave sleep). The body's natural circadian rhythm, which involves the release of melatonin, affects sleep schedules. Slow Wave Sleep, Sleep Phases, What Is Sleep, Physical Health, Stages Of Sleep, Rem Sleep, Muscle Contraction

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Sleep involves altered consciousness and decreased reactivity to the environment. It's a time when various body systems shift to an anabolic state to build back up things that have been broken down during the day. There are several stages of sleep, with two different kinds of sleep: REM (rapid eye movement) and non-REM ( Which includes slow-wave sleep). The body's natural circadian rhythm, which involves the release of melatonin, affects sleep schedules.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Not all stress is bad. In fact, eustress is a good thing that improves focus and performance by making us feel motivated, determined, or excited. The problematic kind is distress, which makes us feel anxious, overwhelmed, or frsutrated, and impairs focus and performance. You can find out more in this Insights Into Psychology blog post.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Bowlsby's attachment theory identifies four different attachment styles: secure, anxious-ambivalent, anxious-avoidant, and disorganized. Infants automatically seek to attach to caregivers, and the caregivers' responses influence how the child's attachment style develops, which in turn influences the child's emotional development and ability to regulate emotions.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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Not all stress is bad for us; while distress can be harmful, eustress can actually be helpful. Distress makes us feel anxious, overwhelmed, or frustrated, and it impairs focus and performance. Eustress makes us feel motivated, determined, or exicted, and boosts focus and performance.

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Mental Health at Home | Ashley L. Peterson

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