We’ve all been there. You say something offensive on Twitter, the backlash is swift and furious, and you take a break from social media. But you miss it. That’s the only place you feel like you can express yourself. You crave those reactions to your comments. So you try to get back on Twitter but […]
Cutting out compulsions is an effective approach to recovering from a variety of mental illnesses. And it’s helpful for building better mental health and fitness in general. But sometimes it can be difficult to spot the compulsions. The approach to identifying obsessions and compulsions explained in this video is especially useful for identifying compulsions in […]
Panic attacks are a totally normal challenge to deal with on the journey of recovery out of many mental illnesses. But they often become an experience we try to avoid, which only makes the illness worse and brings even more panic attacks and even worse ones into our lives. In this video, I share an […]
Our fears love to latch onto the very things we would never want to have happen. The problem is, the moment we start reacting to the intrusive thoughts with coping, checking, and controlling compulsions, we actually encourage our brains to throw those intrusive thoughts at us even more, and they only get more intense the […]
Everything we do during the day is our practice and we experience the rewards of our practice. When we’re ruminating on what others think about us, we’re improving our ability to spend hours making ourselves miserable. When we’re engaging in checking compulsions, constantly trying to get rid of uncertainty, we’re becoming very skilled at chasing […]
A 74 year-old man named Ralph Gilbertsen, of Richfield, Minnesota, feels harassed and he fears for his life. He has sent numerous letters to city officials, police, and his apartment building management detailing the harassment. He has copied down the license plate numbers of 75 different vehicles that have tailed him. Not only have officials […]