by Leah Roberts | Apr 16, 2019 | Behavioral Health, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Dual Diagnosis
Constant Self Assesment So I can say I think the key to a healthy and balanced life is … I think the key is constant self assessment. If you live life with arrogance, what’s really going to be happening is you’re going to spend most of your life blaming...
by Leah Roberts | Apr 8, 2019 | Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Dual Diagnosis
Where does a life worth living come from? So actually as the more we get into how somebody builds a life worth living, we’ll see that that concept is actually quite old, and it borrows from Greek teaching tradition and Zen principles, and that basically say,...
by Leah Roberts | Mar 12, 2019 | Addiction Treatment, Finding Help, Mental Health Treatment, Treatment Center
So the reason that we want to do treatment, knowing that relapses happen, is so that we’re prepared to continue to manage the disease. Diagnosed and Intervened Once someone is initially diagnosed with any chronic relapsing disease, diabetes, asthma, high blood...
by Leah Roberts | Mar 12, 2019 | Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Distress Tolerance
My name is Nicole and I am the Program Coordinator at New Roads Residential Treatment Center. I also do the DBT skills training with the clients. Today we are going to learn a skill. It is in our distress tolerance skill set. I’m gonna write distress tolerance...
by Leah Roberts | Feb 20, 2019 | Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Finding Help, mental illness, Therapy, Treatment Center, Warning Signs
Bipolar disorder is one of the most highly investigated neurological disorders, affecting nearly 4.5 percent of adults in the United States. Sadly, less than 40 percent of people with bipolar disorder receive the treatment needed to help them live their lives to the...
