I'm sick, oh no

DX'd - Other
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Anybody else here affected greatly by colds or flus? They feel like plagues to me.

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I’ve been sick too, with a cold. Sucks.

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I get man flu. But only about twice a year.

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I hate being sick, I had bronchitis towards the end of the year last year and I hated it so much. The part that made it worse was the fact I had to hear my father in law complain about taking out the trash while I was sick.

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They used to drive me nuts, but the psychotherapies listed below helped me with the “emotion magnification” problem I had from psychotic bipolar + borderline personality disorder (+++, ad nauseum).

  1. Psychotherapies for that currently include…
    DBT – http://behavioraltech.org/resources/whatisdbt.cfm
    MBSR – Welcome to the Mindful Living Blog
    MBCT - Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: theory and practice - PubMed
    ACT – ACT | Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
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  2. the even newer somatic psychotherapies like…
    MBBT – An Introduction to Mind-Body Bridging & the I-System – New Harbinger Publications, Inc
    SEPT – Somatic experiencing - Wikipedia
    SMPT – Sensorimotor psychotherapy - Wikipedia
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  3. or standard CBTs, like…
    REBT – Rational emotive behavior therapy - Wikipedia
    Schematherapy – Schema therapy - Wikipedia
    Learned Optimism – Learned optimism - Wikipedia
    Standard CBT – Psychotherapy | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness & scroll down
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  4. Get two or more of those “down,” and one can use the skills therefrom in this way to combat delusional thinking and emotional reactivity very quickly: 10 StEP – Pair A Docks: The 10 StEPs of Emotion Processing