The Warning Signs for Suicide
…In honor of National Suicide Prevention Month, PsychAlive is featuring videos that can help us to better understand and prevent suicide. Learn more about suicide prevention….
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The Importance of Accepting Compliments
…Other researchers and therapists have observed the power of compassion to help people find healing and self-acceptance. Dr. Richard Schwartz found that when he helped clients “approach their own worst, most hated feelings and desires with open minds and hearts,” their harsh self-critics became gentler, and they began to function more like helpers and collaborators in the work of healing. Dr. Schwartz recognized the inner voices of shame, criticis…
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Preventing Gang Violence: Why Kids Become Violent
…keep it that way. So you do all the things that you do, from mentoring and helping kids. But intervention is 14 and up, kids who have regrettably found their way into a gang. Now what do you do and how do you help them? And they’re a tougher sell because society is into demonizing sometimes, and so it’s hard for them to see that these young men and women belong to us. But they do. And that’s, demonizing is always untruth. So we belong to each othe…
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Negative Feelings, Essential Signals on the Road of Life: Supporting our Children on their Path
…s. It can be the loss of a relationship or dream, a sense of disadvantage, helplessness or an unmet expectation. This emotion can bring support from others and drive reflection that helps us consider how we can make changes. Being able to rally after the sadness disappointment or failure bring can hone the judgment necessary to tackle the next challenge. Disgust is vital to disease avoidance and hygiene maintenance. These negative emotions are ess…
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The Value of Depression
…ast two weeks? Have you experienced recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide? If the patient responds “Yes” to five or more of those questions and if those symptoms are causing significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning, the patient is diagnosed with clinical depression. So if we assume tha…
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Is This More Than the Baby Blues?
…national is a good resource for more information about PMADs, and their website can help you find a certified provider in your area. PSI can also guide you toward local support groups and resources in your area. Resources Immediate Support: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-SUICIDE National Postpartum Depression Warmline: 1-800-PPD-MOMS Additional Information & Support: Postpartum Support Inte…
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How Standing Up for Yourself Helps You Fight Depression
…right to live our lives on our terms. Learn more about the Webinar “Empowering Strategies to Fight Depression.” If you — or someone you know — need help, please call 1-800-273-8255 for theNational Suicide Prevention Lifeline. If you are outside of the U.S., please visit the International Association for Suicide Prevention for a database of international resources….
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“Nobody Likes Me:” Understanding Loneliness and Self-shame
…liness and social anxiety, a subject you can learn more about here. As Dr. Lisa Firestone put it in her article “A Way Out of Loneliness,” “It’s helpful to recognize that loneliness is very much a state of mind, and unfortunately, that mind is, in effect, lying to us.” Being alone isn’t necessarily the issue; it’s the filter of seeing ourselves as alone that must be challenged. People who feel lonely tend to view the world differently. There are e…
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