Tag - CBT

Perfectionism

Perfectionism: A Journey to Balance

Perfectionism; While aiming for excellence can be positive, let’s also consider how perfectionism may have affected your life in not-so-desirable ways. Perfectionism can sometimes lead to negative outcomes, affecting mental health, relationships, and overall well-being. Hence, let’s understand what perfectionism is, how it affects us,...
Emotional Numbness

Emotional numbness

Have you ever felt you have difficulties experiencing positive or negative emotions? Have you ever felt disconnected or detached from yourself or others? Or have you ever felt like you cannot participate or live your life to the fullest? This could be known as emotional...

How to Support a Loved One Experiencing Schizophrenia

What is Schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is an often misunderstood mental health concern that significantly affects schizophrenic individuals and their families. It affects an individual’s emotions, thoughts, and perceptions towards self and the world around them. A lot of stigmas and fear surround this mental health condition,...

Adlerian Approach: Understanding Alfred Adler’s Approach

Adlerian Approach - Alfred Adler was the pioneer of Adlerian theory (1870–1937). Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the School of Individual Psychology. It emphasizes the uniqueness and individuality of each person. In addition, the theory also explains that individuals...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): A Journey Into DBT

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a type of talk therapy or in others, it is a modified type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). DBT is a versatile framework that combines the insights from CBT and the wisdom of mindfulness to offer an approach that works...

Person-Centered Therapy: A Client Based Approach

Person-Centered Therapy, Psychotherapy; is a term that has become more familiar over the past few decades. Psychotherapy has been continuously growing with many different and interesting approaches. There are humanistic, cognitive, behavioural, etc types of therapy approaches. Person-centred Therapy (PCT), also known as Rogerian Therapy,...

Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy; was developed by famous psychologist Sigmund Freud who is also known as the Father of Psychoanalysis. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy falls under the wing of psychotherapy. It focuses on exploring what lies behind the unconscious mind and understanding how it plays a role in our...

Depersonalization: Experiencing The Unreal

Have you ever felt like watching your life from a snow-globe?As if someone else is living the life and you are merely existing.Or have you ever looked into the mirror and don’t recognize the person that the mirror illuminates?It is like the whole world is...