Borderline Personality Disorder: Tracing My Path to Recovery
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive psychiatric illness, affecting all aspects of a person’s – of my life. BPD has injected its tentacles into all areas of my life, including my career, my love life, my sexuality, my family and friends and my creativity. In some of these areas, I’ve been successful and in […]
Music and Sound Therapy and It’s Benefits
SOUND AND MUSIC THERAPY If you appreciate melodious voices and you like music, you probably know how much it is capable of affecting your mood. Maybe a strong motivational backdrop helps you to give your extra bit during workout sessions or a soothing romantic song on a rainy evening reminds you of your loved one. […]
Tips for finding your Therapist
Therapy is essential when living with mental illnesses. Various studies often yield results favorable to therapy, suggesting that therapy and an effective therapist is more helpful than placebos or no treatment. (Comer, 2018.) Furthermore, according to a meta-analysis of several therapy studies, the average person receiving therapy was “better off” than 75% of people receiving […]
Animals can help with Therapy – Animal Assisted Therapy
Animals have historically been the companions of humans from the beginning of civilization. In the primitive period, they were domesticated to assist in making a livelihood. Gradually with the increasing aesthetic taste of our civilization, pets also started to be adopted to have a companion rather than assess the “immediate” benefits that the animal […]