What to do if Patient is Actively Suicidal | Suicide Prevention
What do you do if you’re a therapist and your patient is high risk for suicide? After you’ve done the assessment, and they’re high risk. The next step is you’re going to want to de-escalate them. Get them to be cooperative, if they’re having some…
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU EXPRESS SUCIDAL THOUGHTS TO YOUR THERAPIST?
What happens when you tell your therapist that you are having thoughts of suicide? The first and foremost thing your therapist is going to want to know is what level of risk you are. That determines where things go, if you’re not immediate risk and…
HOW TO PREVENT SUICIDE
Suicide prevention and coping techniques are vitally important. In the United States suicide is the second leading cause of death of individuals between ages 10 and 34, and it is the fourth leading cause of death of individuals from 35 to 44. Half of these…
WHAT BLOCKS EMOTIONAL PROCESSING/ HEALING?
Are there memories that have a lot of emotional weight? Have you ever wondered why does this event that happened so long ago still carry so much emotional weight? What would it do for you if you knew why some things are so hard to…
ARE THERAPISTS A BUNCH OF QUACKS?
Are therapists a bunch of quacks? Like dude just get over it you don’t have to feel feelings. The problem is if you take that emotion whatever you’re feeling you just suppress it, it can build up and then you just get mad over dumb…
Emotional processing
HOW TO FEEL BETTER EMOTIONALLY Some basics of emotional processing involve letting yourself feel to heal. Give yourself permission to feel those feelings, to exert them. If someone is talking to you and you ignore them, they get louder. Your emotions react in the same…
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Have you seen the show Moonnight on Disney plus? The show does a good job about showing the features of someone who has dissociative identity disorder or DID. This is a real thing that has been studied for many years. How does something like this…
Differences between Therapists
Ever wondered what the different types of therapists are and how they differ? Like what’s the difference between a social worker and a psychologist, or a CPC and an MFT? Psychologists Let’s start with a psychologist. In most states a psychologist needs a PhD or…