This is about the process of getting on SSI, a Social Security welfare program, from start to finish, from what I’ve understood it to be. It includes some of my own personal experiences in the process.
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Long post about a realization I had today about a major event in my teenage years that I’d never been happy about. I’m still not “happy” about it, but maybe it wasn’t as bad as I always thought.
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Jumping through hoops due to mental illness can break someone down so much that they want to give up and go against what they’re supposed to do or not. This is a personal post about how I feel so broken down by my limitations that I want to just give up.
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ACCEPTS and IMPROVE are two acronyms for methods of distress tolerance. They involve applying yourself to activities and distractions. I include several examples of each letter.
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The second P in TIP stands for Paired muscle relaxation, so we discuss that method of distress tolerance as well as a related paired relaxation skill for handling stressful situations.
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TIP Skills are another set of skills that help regulate emotion in crisis situations and resist dangerous urges. This is the first part on TIP Skills.
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Two methods of distress tolerance, the module in my DBT group we’re covering, are the STOP method and the pros and cons method. These are two basic strategies to handle a crisis situation.
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