How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People
or waiting in delicious anticipation for a bingo number to be called are all more stressful than writing a monthly report, but f ...
The Active Strategies: Worrying and Controlling DSM-IV says that worrying means apprehensive expectation. It’s more than that, a ...
Today, Catherine is freaking out over bug poop. Yesterday, it was pes- ticides on fruit. The day before it was lead in drinking ...
Put the situation into perspective. We have seen that one aspect of the fight or flight response is shutting out everything but ...
“It’s not really a bother.” “Yeah, right.” POINT OUT THAT WORRY IS THE PROBLEM. If you follow most any line of questioning outwa ...
The I Can’t SleepExplosion Catherine looks haggard at seven o’clock as she sets a half grape- fruit in front of her husband. “An ...
Anxious people usually go to bed when they’re done with whatever they’re doing. Bedtime can vary tremendously from one day to th ...
but TV usually doesn’t work as well if the program is even slightly inter- esting. You could try watching infomercials. AVOID CA ...
lowing programs to limit worry in order to get to sleep is a form of positive control that may divert anxious people from more n ...
Imagine a dog inside an electric fence. After he touches it once or twice, you can turn off the power, because he won’t go near ...
not you; you can hear them convincing themselves that the situation is bad, dangerous, hopeless, or all three. These internal mo ...
Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder Treatment for generalized anxiety follows the same general pattern as treatment for o ...
Part Three Explosions into Sadness Copyright 2003 by Albert J. Bernstein. Click Here for Terms of Use. ...
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Chapter 8 PART THREE: EXPLOSIONS INTO SADNESS Facing Depression, the Great, Gray Beast Rachel cries herself into deep, dreamless ...
* Randy watches TV too, constantly. At least since he went on stress leave. “Guess I’m kind of a couch potato,” he says. “I wa ...
Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day, as indicated by either subjective report (e.g., feels sad or empty) or observ ...
Sometimes depressions are classified according to whether or not people have a reason to be depressed. Alonzo lost his wife, so ...
that they always have been depressed and always will be. The mood lifts a bit later in the day, but not much. Goethe, who had me ...
Depressed people are notorious for not taking care of themselves. They may eat and sleep, but not well. Their grooming suffers: ...
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