Distress tolerance is a set of skills for helping you learn to tolerate emotional distress and upset. Self-soothing is one set of distress tolerance skills. In the ideal situation, these self-soothing skills are learned from an early age in the parent-child relationship so that the child grows up … [Read more...]
Distress Tolerance
Distress tolerance are strategies we use to cope with emotional upset or distress. Everyone in life has experienced emotional upset or distress. It is inevitable. However, not everyone has learned healthy or useful distress tolerance skills. This can happen when there is attachment trauma and … [Read more...]
Bio – Marsha P. Johnson
Born on August 24, 1945 in New Jersey, she had six siblings. Although she started wearing dresses at age 5, it was not until she graduated high school and moved to Greenwich Village that she started doing drag. She would say that the P stood for “pay it no mind” and that was how she would respond to … [Read more...]
Hypervigilance
A state of extreme alert to potential danger. This can occur in a number of different mental health disorders, but is most closely tied to PTSD and even in other diagnoses seems to stem from a traumatic experience and resulting in the perceived need to be on heightened alert for … [Read more...]
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