Mental Health Blog

The threshold for seeking help for mental health problems has become lower, but many people still suffer alone for far too long. A difficult situation in life can become too stressful for anyone to bear, and personal strategies and the support of friends and family...

According to DSM-5, a personality disorder can be diagnosed if there are significant impairments in self and interpersonal functioning together with one or more pathological personality traits. In addition, these features must be; (1) relatively stable across time and...

In addition to changing the core beliefs that cause faulty interpretations, CBT can be useful for modifying habitual, damaging patterns of thinking that may not necessarily result from a core belief.  One such pattern is called black-or-white thinking. This pattern is...

The theorists from a different school of thought, cognitive-behavioral theorists, have taken a more pragmatic approach. It is not always necessary to know why something works the way it does, in order to change or correct it (e.g., a damaged personality). To...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is derived from cognitive-behavioral theory. CBT is a highly effective and evidence-based therapy. Therapists have successfully used CBT to treat a variety of mental disorders particularly depressive disorders and anxiety disorders...

What is Personality Disorder? Personality disorder is a relatively new diagnosis in the field of mental health.As its name suggests, it is a disorder linked to personality and, because of this, for a long time, it was not recognized or acknowledged as a mental health...