Brain Self-Help: An Incomplete List of Resources » Ashley Miller Yesterday Andy pointed out that a list of non-going-to-therapy resources would be useful. Insurance, time, frustration with therapeutic experiences, inability to tell parents, etc, can make seeing a therapist either impossible or unappealing. Here’s a (totally incomplete) list. Please please please add other suggestions in the comments! Relevant disclaimer: I’m not a therapist. The below are first general resources, then sorted specifically by disorder, followed by some resources if you do decide to seek therapy. Miscellaneous/Multi-Disorder Help & Information DBT WorkbookThis is one of many, but it’s received very positive reception from the psych community and did get an award for being evidence based. Mindfulness Course 8-week course on mindfulness, suggested by commenter kabarett. CBT Workbook Again, one of many, but I’ve looked through this one, and liked the formatting and set up. What It’s Like in a Mental Hospital Breakup Girl Advice and relationships. Dr. Depression Mood Gym
Suicide: Read This First If you are feeling suicidal now, please stop long enough to read this. It will only take about five minutes. I do not want to talk you out of your bad feelings. I am not a therapist or other mental health professional - only someone who knows what it is like to be in pain. I don't know who you are, or why you are reading this page. I only know that for the moment, you're reading it, and that is good. I have known a lot of people who have wanted to kill themselves, so I have some small idea of what you might be feeling. Well, you're still reading, and that's very good. Start by considering this statement: Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain. That's all it's about. Don't accept it if someone tells you, "That's not enough to be suicidal about." When pain exceeds pain-coping resources, suicidal feelings are the result. Now I want to share with you five things to think about... Well, it's been a few minutes and you're still with me.
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The man who couldn’t speak—and how he revolutionized psychology | Literally Psyched Bicêtre Hospital, the place of Leborgne's illness. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, National Library of France. When he was 30 years old, Louis Victor Leborgne lost the ability to speak—or speak in any matter that made any sort of sense. Apart from his inability to speak, Louis Victor did not appear to exhibit any signs of physical or cognitive trauma. Within ten years, however, Leborgne began to manifest other signs of distress. In April, 1861, Leborgne developed gangrene. Broca specialized in the study of language. When it came to speech, however—Broca’s main area of interest—Leborgne was hopelessly lost. He could no longer produce but a single syllable, which he usually repeated twice in succession; regardless of the question asked him, he always responded: tan, tan, combined with varied expressive gestures. Broca termed the deficit aphémie, or aphimia, the loss of articulated speech. Dr. On April 17, at approximately 11am, Louis Victor Leborgne died. That wasn’t, however, the whole story.
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5 Ways to Make Progress in Evolutionary Psychology: Smash, Not Match, Stereotypes | Context and Variation (Alternate, Twitter-sourced titles: “5 Ways to Prove Darwin Wasn’t Crazy,” “Shut the Eff Up and Science Already,” “5 Ways Psychology Needs to Evolve.”) Evolutionary psychology, the study of human psychological adaptations, does not have a popular or scientific reputation for being rigorous, even though there are rigorous, thoughtful scientists in the field. The field is trying to take on an incredibly challenging task: understand what of human behavior is adaptive and why. Because of this, there are consequences to a bad evolutionary psychology interpretation of the world. I once had a fellow from this field talk my ear off for fifteen minutes about his “one bad apple spoils the barrel” hypothesis (it was so long ago at this point that I’m not too worried about the story identifying him). No one should ever love their idea so much that it becomes detached from reality, as much an issue for those testing hypotheses as those reading about them in blog posts and magazines. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.