Friendship
How does friendship affect your mental health?
What is depression?
It involves a depressed mood or loss of pleasure or interest in activities for long periods of time. Depression is different from regular mood changes and feelings about everyday life. Persistent sad, anxious, or “empty” mood. Feelings of hopelessness or pessimism. Feelings of irritability, frustration, or restlessness.
What is anxiety?
A feeling of fear, dread, and uneasiness. It might cause you to sweat, feel restless and tense, and have a rapid heartbeat. It can be a normal reaction to stress.
What are the 6 kind of boundaries?
Physical, sexual, intellectual, time, emotional, and material
What are some therapy modalities?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), psychodynamic (PDT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
How do we maintain boundaries within friendships?
What is the best modality for depression?
Because cognitive therapy and behavioral therapy work well together to treat depression and anxiety disorders, the two are often combined in an approach called cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). CBT focuses on addressing both the negative thought patterns and the behaviors that contribute to depression.
What is the best modality for anxiety?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is highly effective in the treatment of anxiety.
What's a material boundary?
If and how you share your personal belongings. This reflects your willingness to lend others your physical possessions or your "stuff" (ex: books, car, money, etc.)
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
A psychotherapeutic treatment that helps people learn how to identify and change the destructive or disturbing thought patterns that have a negative influence on their behavior and emotions.
What are kinds of boundaries within friendships/relationships?
Porous: oversharing, enmeshment, codependency, inability to say no, people-pleasing, dependency on feedback from others, paralyzing fear of rejection, and acceptance of mistreatment
Healthy: give and take, mutual trust, forgiveness and grace, appropriate sharing, flexibility, and independence
Rigid: inability to share, building walls to keep others out, avoidance of vulnerability, tendency to cut people out, high expectations of others, and enforcement of strict rules
What are some facts about anxiety in the United States?
What is an intellectual boundary?
The extent to which you express your thoughts and ideas. This reflects how freely you share your thoughts with others (ex. whether your fear being ridiculed or dismissed when you share your opinion)
What is Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT therapy)?
A type of mindful psychotherapy that helps you stay focused on the present moment and accept thoughts and feelings without judgment. It aims to help you move forward through difficult emotions so you can put your energy into healing instead of dwelling on the negative.
No, thank you
Not this time
I'd rather not
No
That's not something I'd like to do
No, but thanks for the offer
That doesn't work for me today
I'm not available
I can't make it
I would prefer not to
What are some facts about depression in the Black community?
Black and Latinx children were about 14% less likely than White youth to receive treatment for their depression.
Black children and adolescents who died by suicide were more likely than White youths to have experienced a crisis during the two weeks before they died.
In 2018, a study found that the suicide rate of Black children 5 to 12 was nearly twice that of White children of the same age.
What are some facts about anxiety in the Black community?
Some Black communities accept that mental illnesses are health problems that require treatment. But there’s a severe stigma in other communities that implies a mental health problem is a sign of weakness and should be kept hidden from others.
This stigma is compounded by mistrust of the medical system, which has historically not served Black people well and caused further harm. This harm includes horrific medical experiments on enslaved people, the forced sterilizations of Black women, and the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, which withheld treatment from hundreds of Black men for decades to let doctors track the course of the disease.
What are self-boundaries?
The ability to say no to yourself. Not giving into all your urges without limits because it detract from your well-being. (Ex: Saying no to things that do not contribute to your personal growth, speaking to yourself in a kind way, trusting your own opinion, avoiding self-sabotaging behavior, and practicing healthy communication and coping skills when you're upset.)
What is Psychodynamic therapy?
Focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in the client's present behavior. The goals of psychodynamic therapy are client self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behavior.
What is my role within friendships?
What percentage of self-reported suicide attempts rose among Black adolescents?
Self-reported suicide attempts rose nearly 80% among Black adolescents from 1991 to 2019, while the prevalence of attempts did not change significantly among those of other races and ethnicities.
What is the 3-3-3 rule for anxiety?
What is a boundary?
They are expectations and needs that help you feel safe and comfortable in your relationship. They are ways you communicate your needs to others through your words and actions. They are a form of self-care. They represent ways to define roles in a relationship.
What is Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)?
DBT teaches people to accept their thoughts, feelings and behaviors, and the techniques to change them. Not only are personal skills taught in DBT, but skills for interpersonal relationships are also emphasized. DBT is based on CBT, but it focuses more on the emotional and social aspects of living.