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Sharing – How to use mindful practices to manage dissociation
I’ve never been taken to mediation the way other people have. I don’t particularly like the experience. It makes me profoundly uncomfortable.
I don’t know why; I know it doesn’t seem to work for me. I wonder, however, if part of my issue is that I need to live with some low-level dissociation. Maybe I’m so used to being slightly detached that focusing my attention entirely inward is too much. It’s overwhelming. It’s too much of a risk.
Sharing – Mental Health Professionals Really Can Assume Some Police Duties
It’s been trialed in several areas, sending out a mental health team instead of the police to respond to certain kinds of calls. Typically calls that involve a mental health crisis, addiction, etc. What we didn’t have yet were real studies to show whether this was having the desired effect. It’s early, but this is promising:
Sharing – Building Emotional Intelligence Isn’t as Hard as You Think
Emotional intelligence is something that I struggled with while I was healing, and as I look around the child abuse survivor community, I think that struggle is common. All too often we never really learned these skills as kids, and are also usually really good at masking our emotions, even from ourselves. But, this can…
Sharing – The Disguises of Depression
Not everyone is going to mope around and talk about feeling sad. Some people, maybe even people in your own life, are going to just be kind of irritable, maybe even mean.
You might ordinarily call this sort of behavior “acting out”, but it could be so much more than that.
