If someone has asthma, they aren’t shamed for needing an inhaler. If someone has type 1 diabetes, no one expects them to “grow out of it” or “just try harder” to make their pancreas produce insulin. These
If you or someone you care about struggles with chronic nail biting, it is important to recognize that support and effective treatment are available. While change may not happen overnight, meaningful progress is possible with the right tools and guidance. Nail-biting, like all BFRBs,...
Biting the hand that starves you: Inspiring resistance to anorexia/bulimia. Strife, S 121-122 Just sex? The cultural scaffolding of rape. Rozee, PD 122-123 Spouse abuse: Assessing & treating battered women, batterers, & their children, 2nd edition. ...
To give a concrete example, I had a friend who had a bad habit of biting her nails. I gave her a strategy to stop her from biting her nails, a dual strategy that allowed her to use an anchor and a mantra. Two weeks later I got an email from this friend that I have changed her...
Imagine someone who has never used or seen apapercpp and is struggpng to keep a bunch of papers together. Then the person comes up with a newway of bending a stiff wire to hold the papers in place. "That was very creative," Beeman says. Onthe fpp side, if someone works in a ...
As much as we need to. Some of us will retreat into old, seemingly comforting behavior like drinking too much, gambling too much, excessively depending on drugs to help us handle our fears, etc. Probably anything that’s got “too much” attached to it will end up biting us back at so...
5– Talk to Someone Who Will Empathize and Listen Without Trying to “Fix” It After a period of alone time, INFPs are often helped by talking to a friend or family member who can listen without trying to jump in and “fix” the problem. In stressful situations, INFPs want someone who...
unforgiving task master making them wash their hand thousands of times in a row, or vacuum the house for hours only to have to start all over again, or keep checking the route they had travelled back form work on foot to try and reassure themselves they hadn’t killed someone without ...
The kindergarten noticed severe scratches on the arm of a boy who was almost four years old, which they thought looked like someone had grabbed the boy’s arm. The boy was asked about the scratches. He said the family dog had caused them. The kindergarten did not believe him and reported...
Breaking bad habits is a matter of rewiring your brain by creating substitute behaviors. Knowing your environmental and emotional triggers can reduce their power. It's important to have a substitute behavior planned in advance and have someone who can be a support. ...