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Tips for Friends and Family of Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder
It can be difficult to deal with a friend or loved one who has borderline personality disorder (BDP). Use these tips to handle tough times and help maintain a safe environment: [more…]
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Useful Tips for People with Borderline Personality Disorder
People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) usually exhibit behaviors, feelings and thoughts in drastic forms. Try these things to help you manage impulsive behavior and extreme thinking when dealing [more…]
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How to Calm Your Anxious Feelings
Feelings of anxiety often are accompanied by physical reactions. When your body trembles with anxious sensations like sweaty hands, a shaky voice, a racing heart, or an upset stomach, try a few relaxing [more…]
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Important Information about Borderline Personality Disorder
Don’t despair if you’re diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BDP). Seeking help and finding the right treatment can be effective. Keep these things in mind about BDP: [more…]
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Teachers Shape Kids: Praising Kids in the Classroom
Teachers can improve the motivation of their students if they praise them often for doing the right things. Effective praise has four major elements, including [more…]
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The Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder
Diagnosing borderline personality disorder (BDP) is complex, even trained mental health professionals may have difficulty with the diagnosis because the symptoms of BDP can vary dramatically between people [more…]
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Do You Have Anxiety? Check Your Symptoms
Anxiety appears in different forms for different folks. You may find that anxiety affects your thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. Some of the more common symptoms are listed as follows: [more…]
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How to Conquer Your Anxious Behavior
When you find that you’re avoiding important life events or opportunities as a result of your anxiety, it’s time to take action. By taking small steps to change your behavior, you can overcome anxiety-inducing [more…]
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Tips for Living with OCD
If you live with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), you may feel frustrated, isolated, and just plain strange. Keep the following facts in mind, or on a card to carry with you, as you go about your daily [more…]
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Defining Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or OCD
People with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) have recurring obsessions — intrusive thoughts, images, or urges that are disturbing and cause distress. OCD sufferers also have [more…]
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Detecting Signs of Trouble in Kids for Early Intervention
Detecting problems early makes a world of difference. Kids who receive early intervention improve more rapidly and successfully than those whose problems lie unaddressed for years. The following signs [more…]
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Four Goals of Successful Childhood
Parents, teachers, grandparents, and child-care givers all want to help children thrive. They can do this job best if they keep in mind what the most important challenges of childhood are all about. Therefore [more…]
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Controlling Your Anxious Thoughts
The words you use to think about yourself and the world can contribute to your anxiety. When you take some time to examine your anxious thoughts, you may find that your anxiety decreases. If your mind [more…]
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The Many Forms of OCD
OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) can be categorized in quite a few ways, and no clear consensus exists among professionals. However, the following list shows some of the most common forms that this [more…]
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Tips for Parents to Guide Child Development
Parents’ work never stops. Parents usually do the best job with their kids that they can. Here are a few tips to help them along: [more…]
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Borderline Personality Disorder For Dummies Cheat Sheet
To be formally diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), a person must show frequent signs of at least five out of nine symptoms of BDP. Manage your BDP by understanding various treatment options [more…]
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Living with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, poses challenges, not the least of which is making sure you don’t let your OCD define you. If OCD is part of your life, make the effort to focus on other [more…]
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Overcoming Anxiety For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Anxiety is the most common mental disorder, but it’s also one of the most treatable. Because anxiety can produce a wide range of symptoms, all sorts of techniques and therapies can be used to treat your [more…]
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Child Psychology & Development For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Kids grow and develop in many ways. For the people who choose to care for children — from parents to teachers to childcare workers – keeping tabs on normal childhood development, spotting signs of trouble [more…]
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Controlling Your Breathing for Five Minutes a Day
Figuring out how to breathe with your diaphragm is a key skill in overcoming anxiety. The diaphragm is the muscle that lies between your abdominal cavity and your lung cavity. Try this exercise to start [more…]
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Lifting Your Spirits Quickly and Easily
When you're feeling a little down or uptight, give yourself a break by trying some of these helpful tips. [more…]
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Overcoming Anxiety by Confronting Your Fears
No single strategy works more effectively in overcoming anxiety than exposure. Exposure involves putting yourself in direct contact with whatever it is that makes you anxious. Confronting your fears directly [more…]
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Signs of Anxiety and Depression
Everyone worries and experiences sadness but when these feelings consume you and affect how you relate to people and situations, you could be dealing with anxiety and depression. Go through this list of [more…]
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Living for Today: A Remedy for Anxiety and Depression
Feeling guilty about things that have happened in the past or thinking that something horrible is just around the corner is central to most anxious and depressing thoughts. To keep yourself in the here [more…]
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Understanding When You’re Thinking Anxiously
In order to master overcoming anxiety, you have to be able to identify and overcome anxious thinking. People with anxiety generally think differently from other people. Look out for the following signs [more…]
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