Tag: Psychology

• The Not-So-Silver Lining: When Positive Thinking Backfires

  I follow a few different science and psychology channels on YouTube and wanted to share a video from one of them that I just watched on why positive thinking isn’t the absolute “be all” that it’s claimed to be. I’ve attached the video below, as well as the link to an article I wrote in…

  Rayne

  May 17, 2019

  Life, Mental Health

  Mental Health, Positive Thinking, Psychology

• Protected: Obsessions As A Coping Tool?

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  Rayne

  July 21, 2018

  Borderline Personality Disorder, Life

  Dogs, Jennifer Lawrence, Obsessions, Psychology

• Protected: Not Going To Happen This Year Either

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  Rayne

  January 21, 2018

  Life

  Acceptance, Determination, Growth, Letting Go, Psychology, Studies

• Dependence On Therapy

  Since we’ve started working together, my therapist has mentioned quite a few times, that she doesn’t want me to become dependent on therapy. Whenever she’d say that, I’d feel uncomfortable and get defensive. Even though she would tell me that she didn’t say I was dependent on it, I still took it as an attack. And I…

  Rayne

  June 5, 2017

  Therapy

  Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD, Growth, Healing, Life, Mental Health, Psychology, Reflection, Shame, Structure, Support, The Therapeutic Relationship, Therapist, Therapy, Thoughts

• Making Progress Even When You Can’t See It

  A few sessions ago, I told my therapist that I finally felt like I was making progress. That therapy is finally helping me. She jokingly asked me if I was saying that therapy hasn’t helped me before that? I told her that the seeds had been there all along, but I just hadn’t been aware…

  Rayne

  December 5, 2016

  Life

  Awareness, Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD, Change, Commitment, Contemplation, Crisis Survival Skills, DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Encouragement, Goals, Healing, Hope, Life, Making Progress, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychology, Reflection, The Therapeutic Relationship, Therapy

• Being My Own Friend

  During my therapy session yesterday, I was highly annoyed with myself. I told my therapist that I feel I should be better by now. That I should just get over everything and move on. She told me that I’m very harsh on myself, and set very high expectations. That’s very true. I’m my own worst…

  Rayne

  September 13, 2016

  Therapy

  Attachment, Behaviour, Black & White Thinking, Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD, Change, Communication, DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Disconnection, Encouragement, Fear Of Abandonment, Healing, Insecurity, Inspiration, Kindness, Life, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Object Constancy, Obsessive Attachments, Psychologist, Psychology, Reflection, Relationships, Self Care, Skills, Splitting, Structure, The Therapeutic Relationship, Therapist, Transference