Posts under ‘Difficult Issues’

5 Steps to Overcoming Guilt

Sep 27th, 2011

Guilt stems from many primary emotions: regret, shame and loss, to name just a few. Sometimes guilt is real, such as the guilt we feel from harming another. Sometimes it is imagined from either a past event that we have blown out of proportion or a future event that we are worried about.

No matter what the origin of the guilt might be, this feeling we harbor can directly impact our behavior and our relationships with others. This article will identify the specific causes of guilt and offer five steps to overcome the negative feelings to improve your quality of life.

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Solve Your Money Woes in 5 Easy Steps

Apr 26th, 2011

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Mounting debt, smaller paychecks and rising expenses can all contribute to potentially serious money woes. Many people find themselves in over their financial heads before they even realize they were in trouble.

While money problems are not unusual in today’s “spend before you save,” “pay in plastic” culture, those money woes can grow to create a critically stressful situation in your life. If your finances are reaching a breaking point, save these five steps that will get you out of money trouble and on the road to financial freedom.

What’s the Problem?

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Anger Management 101: How to Keep Your Cool

Apr 12th, 2011

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Anger is a natural human response to situations that are deemed unfair or beyond our control. It is both emotional and physiological in nature, causing measurable physical symptoms like increased heart rate and blood pressure. Anger also makes us tense, irritable and unable to deal with others calmly and rationally.

While a little anger is good and normal, frequent bursts of uncontrolled anger may signify you have an anger management problem. Dive into these tips to help you keep your cool the next time you feel your blood pressure starting to rise.

Take a Break

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8 Tips for Dealing with a Breakup

Mar 22nd, 2011

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Breaking up with a person you cared about deeply is never easy. In addition to the hurt and loneliness you are probably feeling, you may be grappling with difficult emotions like anger or distrust if your partner didn’t treat you nicely during the relationship or breakup. Your world may feel as though it is coming apart at the seams, as you learn to go through your daily routine without that person by your side.

While relationship breakups are intensely painful, there are steps you can take to work through your feelings and eventually move on with your life.

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3 Treatment Techniques for Eating Disorders

Jul 29th, 2010

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Weight restoration

It is important for the patient to be linked to a nutritionist and physician to increase weight. In some cases, depending on severity, hospitalization may be required.
Problem solving

This involves identifying the problem, understanding the causes, which would lead to resolution.
Group therapy

Group therapy can be a good forum to educate patients on important topics that may not be addressed elsewhere, such as nutrition, medical consequences of laxative abuse, or assertiveness techniques. This saves individual therapy time for more personalized and deeper issues. Group members also educate each other from their varied experiences in identifying and solving problems.

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3 Treatment Techniques for Eating Disorders

Jul 27th, 2010

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Distress Tolerance

This is used to help patients modify risky or unhelpful behavior patterns. As extremely high levels of anxiety are very common amongst eating disorder sufferers, distress-tolerance skills are used to help cope with this symptom. Some tools include distraction and self-soothing techniques.
Assertiveness Training

Assertiveness involves speaking up for one’s feelings and needs. This is a skill that is characteristically very difficult for individuals who struggle with eating disorders.
Guided imagery

A model of guided imagery therapy suggests that imagery therapy has multiple levels of action and can assist these patients in the regulation of affect by providing an external source of soothing and also by enhancing self-soothing.

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3 Treatment Techniques for Eating disorders

Jul 26th, 2010

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Cognitive Restructuring

This is the process of learning how faulty thinking can promote negative outcomes. Therapist teaching the client to change such irrational beliefs and substitute more rational ones. This is accomplished in teaching the patient with eating disorders how to challenge their detrimental thought habits and substitute life-enhancing thoughts and beliefs.
Expressive writing

Those patients with eating disorders often come from a traumatic background, it is important to allow the patient to express past traumatic events in such safe settings as writing.
Food records

This allows for therapists and patients alike to see the types of food the patients are eating.