Insight: • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with poor insight should be considered a severe form of OCD and not be mistaken for a primary psychotic disorder; a careful history is required to ascertain for insight in previous OCD exacerbations • OCD with poor insight may respond to treatment with an SSRI without the addition of […]
Tag Archives: individual psychothterapy
Thinking in advance
1. Beware of your thoughts Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick. Frank Crane Our mind is a double-edged sword. If we fill it with […]
How to win friends and influence people
How to Handle People Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. Arouse in people an eager want. Give honest and sincere appreciation. Don’t Criticize, Condemn or Complain One of the primary areas that Dale Carnegie focuses on is our ability to handle people effectively under different conditions and circumstances. He points out that we must never criticize, […]
Secret to Amazing Problem Solving (and 10 Specific Ways You Can Use It)
Einstein is quoted as having said that if he had one hour to save the world he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution. This quote does illustrate an important point: before jumping right into solving a problem, we should step back and invest time and effort to improve […]
Simply to sleep better
10 tips that will make everybody sleep better It’s estimated that an average 80 year old man sleeps 25 years, just under one third of his life. There is no satisfying answer to why the human organism needs to disconnect from reality during sleep, but one thing’s for sure: it’s one of the most […]
Ways to Stay Productive When Working at Home
goals,parkinson,law,flexibilityHow do you stay productive when you are working at home by yourself? Although many people working from home enjoy the freedom and convenience, it is much easier to be lazy outside of a work environment. The flexibility of working at home gives you the potential to be far more productive, but it can be […]
How to Finish Your Work, One Bite at a Time
“How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” If you’ve ever ran more than a few miles, you probably understand why you need to pace yourself. Runners that sprint at the start of a race will be exhausted far before they cross the finish line. The same principle applies when trying to […]
Practical Tips for Solving Your Problems More Easily
TRY TO Accept the problem. This is the one you can try to do first when I run into a problem and I use it almost every time. When you accept that the problem already exists and stop resisting then you also stop putting more energy into the problem and “feeding it”. Now it just […]
Improve your Self-Concept
What is a Self-Concept? A self-concept is an understanding you have of yourself that’s based on your personal experiences, body image, the thoughts you have about yourself, and how you tend to label yourself in different situations. A self-concept can also be defined as an all encompassing awareness you had of yourself in the past; […]
Can you be Managerial Thinker
The Managerial Blue Hat Thinker An effective problem solver has to have a means of managing and directing their thought process in a proactive way. Likewise, they must have a way of processing and guiding each of their thoughts in a neutral and unbiased manner that’s focused on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the […]
When You Fail doing something?…… Ask Yourself?
5 Great Questions to Ask Yourself After a Failure Yes, we failed, Let’s face it. We all fail. As we go through life we have relationships that don’t work out, jobs that just aren’t right, exams that we flunk, initiatives that don’t succeed. The more new things we try the more failures we are […]
No More Procrastination..
Reasons for Our Procrastination Habits For every action there is a cause — a trigger of sorts that instantly brings forth decisions and behaviors that lead to daily and lifelong consequences that many of us accept without question. For those of us who are not aware of these triggers, life can be very difficult to manage. […]
Silly question is silly Answer, How to ask better questions?
Benefits and Purpose of Inspired Questions Our questions could very well be the most powerful, motivating and equally de-motivating factors influencing our daily decisions and actions. In fact their influence over our lives is so profound that our entire thought process is completely and consistently absorbed and overwhelmed with the habit of asking and answering […]
10 ways to make others like you
The 10 characteristics of likeable people – Are you one of them? Likeable people can win you directly. Looking at someone in the eyes or speaking with them, you quickly feel familiar and positive feelings are created. Is it really a charisma the way that a person can earn the liking in their environment? […]
Are you a last minute man? living in Urgency
Living with a Sense of Urgency There are some real and tangible reason why you’re not where you want to be in your life. It could result from unhelpful beliefs, dreadful habits, conflicting goals or values, and a plethora of other ways you have found to sabotage yourself. You might in fact have worked through […]
How to Overcome Frustration?
Are You Feeling Frustrated? Are you feeling frustrated? If you are then it probably means that your circumstances are not panning out as you had expected. You are being held back from what you want, and the solutions you are after seem just out of reach. You’re so close, yet still so far, and still […]
Rule 10-90 for Stephen Covey
الفالدوكسان
حتى لا تحيا تعيسا من العمل ..اكتشف ما تريد ان تعمل؟
اكتشاف ماذا تريد ان تفعل و تعمل هام جدا بعد اكتشاف من انت ومن تكون فلآن انت تعرف نفسك و مواطن الثقة و القدرة الكامنة داخلك والآن الخطوة التي لا تقل أهمية ماذا تريد أن تفعل بقدراتك و ميزاتك؟ حتى يحدث توازن في حياتك فيجب ان يكون مستقبلك ممزوجا بها والا ستعيش […]
في العيادة النفسية ! مهندسة تدرس القانون الدولي! حتى تعرف طريق مستقبلك
حضرت فتاة الى العيادة النفسية بصحبة أمها الفتاه حديثة التخرج من كلية الهندسة و هي متفوقة أيضا و جادة في الدراسة و العلم طوال عمرها من الابتدائي الى الجامعة محبة للعلم و الثقافة الى هنا و القصة عادية ليس معضلة نفسية تقدمت الى امتحان في الهندسة لشهادة دولية و ادعت وكانت جداة جدا في التحضير […]
Improve Your Memory and Recall
Chunking One way to make it easier to remember several pieces of information is to put it into chunks. For example, instead of trying to remember these numbers: 2,7,5,3,8,7,9,3,2,6,5,8,9, & 5, try to remember this instead: 2753, 8793, 2658 and 95. Your brain can retain more information if you group it in this way than […]
The Unbreakable link – Dermatopsychiatry- Dr. Adel Serag
4 issues have been discussed in this short lecture, dermatillomania, trichotillomania, trichophagia, and pschoactive drug rash Lecture was presented, in April, 2012 , saudia arabia, jeddah
فن حل المشكلات
¨ يعد الغرض الرئيسي من هذا المدخل هو مساعدة الناس على حل المشاكل التي يواجهونها في حياتهم اليومية وذلك بتمكينهم من القضاء و السيطرة على هذه المشاكل من خلال إدراك الذات و الآخرين . ¨ الهدف هو اكتشاف و تطبيق طرق واستراتيجيات للتكيف من شأنها إزالة وتخفيف الاضطرابات الإنسانية و الحفاظ على كل ما هو […]
Introduction to Psychotherapy
What is psychotherapy? Talk therapy!We are talking depending on each other for maintenance of our biological and psychological well being.It is a form of help giving, differ from informal help inPractioners are trainedTheir activity is guided by a theory or thesis that explain sources of patient’s distress It is the time consumed with the patient […]
Old Age
Old age, regardless of how it is specifically defined, is now being experienced by more people for a longer period of time than ever before. Old age has increasingly significant political, medical, economic, social, and demographic consequences for all nations. While the percentage of persons age 60 and over now ranges from about 13% to […]