I’m just back from the American Psychological Association’s 118th Convention in San Diego this year. It’s the annual gathering of the tribes, where the latest in psychological research, education, and practice is shared. As the saying goes, if it’s August, therapists cannot be found. But options for connecting to a source of support extend beyond the consultation room. There is a powerful role to be played by support groups, online as well as face-to-face, and numerous self-help tools now employ both online and offline components.
The presentation I attended the first day of the convention highlighted ongoing research and discussion ranging from support group participation to self-guided cognitive training in the Mood Gym, to positive psychology’s approach: “teaching happiness.”
Before posting, please read our blog moderation guidelines. The comments below begin with the oldest comments first. Click on the last comments page to jump to the most recent comments.
Before posting, please read our blog moderation guidelines.
Post a Comment:
Copyright © 1995-2013 Psych Central. All rights reserved.
Site last updated: 23 May 2013
|
Hello! Found your website today. Just wanted to say thank you, thank you, thank you! Just recently got diagnosed with BPD and GAD this past April. Have been sober for over a year now through attending AA meetings, and am searching for a similar online version of solution oriented sharing for borderlines? I saw the chat rooms available and thought that might be an option, but I must have 5 posts first, so here I am! Thanks again, Serenity.
From me, you’re quite welcome. But the thanks for the interactive forums “here” go to John Grohol and Psych Central. My own site has some resources and information but this is the place to be for a large variety of forums.
And yes, support groups work!
This was an interesting article in regards to positive psychology and motivation. Martin Seligman is the king of positive thinking. It would be nice to have more programs incoporating postive psychology as there is a great need for it!
regards,
Melissa psychology student.
hi sir ;m suffering psychological disorder;i can’t controle my self;plz help me;otherwise i get sucide;plz; i dont have money to meet doctor
Radhika, if you are in immediate danger and need help stopping unwanted behavior or feelings, you need to go directly to a hospital, or call/visit a hotline for suicide feelings. (There are many options, but this discussion list is not a helpline or treatment center and the writers may not understand your situation.) You can find help for psychological disorders later, but if you are feeling so bad you consider suicide, you MUST first get some help with this, and then I am sure they can try to help you get help you can afford.
You can get FREE support, confidential and international, telephone &/or online, from The Samaritans:
This is their main page (in the UK) but they have offices around the world, and several local websites also, you may search.
You see? You are taking an action to look for help. So there is hope… Please, contact the Samaritans! And good luck in finding peace & hope.
Radhika, if you are in immediate danger and need help stopping unwanted behavior or feelings, you need to go directly to a hospital, or call/visit a hotline for suicide feelings. (There are many options, but this discussion list is not a helpline or treatment center and the writers may not understand your situation.) You can find help for psychological disorders later, but if you are feeling so bad you consider suicide, you MUST first get some help with this, and then I am sure they can try to help you get help you can afford.
You can get FREE support, confidential and international, telephone &/or online, from The Samaritans:
http://www.samaritans.org/
This is their main page (in the UK) but they have offices around the world, and several local websites also, you may search.
You see? You are taking an action to look for help. So there is hope… Please, contact the Samaritans! And good luck in finding peace & hope.
The effectiveness of therapy in general is subjective. I don’t buy the fact that support groups work for everyone. I think just like pills, the therapy works on a portion of patients and not all.
Therapy goes through an evolution. I remember when NLP was hot, now it is considered nonsense. I remember when biofeedback was becoming mainstream but nowadays the machines have become computer games.
The online therapy craze is now hot.
One can see free sites like moodgym, clarifylife and other free online therapy sites that one has to experience and determine for themselves.
As time goes on there will be accreditation systems for people to use.
Sadly we are in that period where anything goes and things are not clear.