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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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Daicia Price Quoted in Crain’s Detroit About Police Department Mental Health Units

Michigan Social Work

Michigan is facing a shortage of mental health professonals and, as Price noted, these community programs simply can’t compete with private practice. “We They can go into private practice or the private sector and make $30,000 more with half the responsibilities.

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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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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 maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress. That phenomenon is called anosognosia.

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When Your Emotions Betray You

Gary Direnfeld

There’s a reason it’s called anxiety DISORDER. In a world that states, trust your feelings, that is about the worst advice when those feelings are owing to a disorder. As a disorder, your feelings are actually betraying you. Think about it. Think about it. That’s how CBT works. You can even do that on your own.

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When Someone You Love has Anxiety…

Gary Direnfeld

To support someone, it is more about being present than trying to rationally talk them out of this disorder. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress. The person with this level of anxiety needs professional help and would likely benefit from medication.

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Helping Your Child Between Separated Parents Starts with the Parents

Gary Direnfeld

Many have personality disorders. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.