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Follow on Google News | New Study Confirms Meehl Foundation DBT ProgramThe finding that “Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) reduces depressive symptoms, improve affective control, and improve mindfulness self-efficiency” are not surprising to the Meehl Foundation DBT therapists
By: Meehl Foundation No one likes to “feel” out of control. DBT mindfulness is the key to learning the “what and the “how” skills to taking control of your own mind. Learning that you do not have to believe every thought you think, is the first step to emotional regulation and reducing your distraught feelings. Learning then, the skills to radical acceptance and “letting go” are the set of skills usedto learn distress tolerance whichincrease your threshold of tolerance to feeling upset. When you increase your threshold to tolerate being emotional you can then make better choices in any situation. Bipolar Disorder is still under diagnosed and misdiagnosed. Not surprisingly, Borderline Personality Disorder- characterized by maladaptive coping skills, has been clinically proven to affect 50% of people with Bipolar Disorder. The thought behind this, is that people struggle desperately to manage their chemical imbalance of the brain,eventually not being able to cope well with life’schallenges. Many of the characteristic of Bipolar Disorder are carried over to BPD. The correct therapy and the correct medication change lives. The Gold standard for years has been DBT therapy (http://www.meehlfoundation.org/ The Meehl House (http://www.meehlfoundation.org/ Debra Meehl, DD. is a Certified Pastoral Counselor and Intensively trained Dialectical Behavior Therapist (DBT) and Skills Trainer. She is the founder and President of the Meehl Foundation, Co-Author of the “Friends and Family Bipolar Survival Guide” and documentary presenter of the Life Focus TV series “A Mind Misunderstood” Media Contact: Debra Meehl 979.798.7972 meehlfou@meehlfoundation.org End
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