self-worth Archives - LifeBrief

Encouragement Construed Anew

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2020-02-27T21:37:52+00:00February 24th, 2020|Categories: All, Patient Stories, Psych Matters, Success|Tags: belonging, care, clinician-patient relationship, concern, courage, encourage, encouragement, intersubjective, rapport, self-worth, therapeutic engagement, treatment adherence, worthiness|

Words are perishable goods. With time they lose color and flavor, either rot away or dry into small hard things. [...]

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Losing Weight After a Lifetime of Failure

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2020-01-30T16:40:23+00:00January 30th, 2020|Categories: All, Health, Psych Matters, Success|Tags: being in the world, dieting, dieting failure, healthy eating, lifestyle change, movement, obesity, overweight, self-esteem, self-judgment, self-perception, self-worth, success, Weight loss, weight loss failure|

I received this request for advice from a reader in response to one of my earlier posts. “Jack, I’m writing [...]

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Sense of Badness in BPD

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2020-01-07T19:43:45+00:00January 7th, 2020|Categories: All, Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: badness, borderline personality disorder, BPD, defectiveness, maladaptive schemas, schema therapy, self-identity, self-worth, worthlessness|

One phenomenon that has intrigued me for my entire career has been the frequent sense of badness that patients with [...]

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Not Depressed Still Unhappy

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2019-11-20T15:54:27+00:00October 25th, 2019|Categories: All, Career, Health, Patient Stories, Psych Matters, Success|Tags: belonging, community, companionship, Depression, Flourishing, happiness, life well lived, love, meaning, psychotherapy, Purpose, self-worth|

At the recently concluded Oasis Conference – what a joy that was! – in my “Lessons Learned from a Tertiary [...]

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Easy Way to Like Yourself More

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2019-11-20T16:33:28+00:00July 19th, 2019|Categories: All, Health, Patient Stories, Psych Matters, Success|Tags: acceptance, adaptive coping, cognitive flexibility, constructed self, distancing, happiness, mental health, multi-mind, persona, resolutions, self-worth, Social self|

A lot of our suffering is self-induced and occurs from our perception of personal shortcomings. It’s easy to be disappointed [...]

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Towards a More Positive Psychiatry

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2019-11-20T16:43:20+00:00June 21st, 2019|Categories: All, Burnout, Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: acceptance and commitment therapy, adaptive coping, DBT, life worth living, meaning, mental health, Mental illness, new paradigm, patient advocacy, patient empowerment, positive psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, Purpose, resolutions, self-worth, skill training|

I remember when it first struck me with full force that being a patient undergoing a psychiatric interview can seem [...]

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