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Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder

Gary Direnfeld

If you have been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, it doesn’t mean you don’t quite have a personality. Now, imagine if your partner has a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Life with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder can be so challenging. It does mean though that you have some fragilities.

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How Relationship Counselling Can Benefit You

Psychological Health Care

Relationship counselling with a professional therapist or psychologist can help improve the way you relate to your partner, assist in changing patterns of behaviour and help negotiate difficult periods. Relationship counselling may help you resolve a current problem or prevent an issue from getting worse.

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Treating Anxiety

Gary Direnfeld

It referred to as a disorder because those feelings of fear are either unfounded or far greater than what is reasonable to the trigger. Given an anxiety disorder, the saying, “trust your gut,” just doesn’t hold. The nature of the disorder is to be held hostage by feelings that don’t fully fit the situation.

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Helping Your Child Between Separated Parents Starts with the Parents

Gary Direnfeld

I have mentioned many times to be cautious about seeking counseling for a child whose parents are separated and where one puts the child in the middle and says inappropriate things about the other parent. Placing that child in counseling may make matters worse. Many have personality disorders. Counseling?

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Is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Effective as a Standalone Treatment for Substance Use Disorders? An Evaluation Using the Tolin Criteria

Society of Clinical Psychology

To answer the question “Is cognitive-behavioral therapy effective as a standalone treatment for substance use disorder?”, In other words, how do we know if a given psychosocial treatment is effective for a given mental disorder? Why is it important to identify effective treatments for substance use disorder?

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Memory Failing? Check the Alcohol Consumption…

Gary Direnfeld

The person with this disorder is left with holes in their memory that they don’t realize. The person with this disorder just doesn’t recognize it. gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support. (Think 26er to 40 ounces of hard liquor; 24 to 36 beer; 4 to 6 750ml bottles of wine.).

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Positive Autobiographical Memories in the Context of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Society of Clinical Psychology

Trauma exposure takes a toll on societies and individuals, leading to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for a sizable minority of individuals (Magruder et al., Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.). Psychological theories of posttraumatic stress disorder. 2015; Kilpatrick et al.,