E9. The MAGIC of MAKING MATTERS WORSE: The Psychology of Catastrophizing!
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11/03/22
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THE MAGIC of MAKING MATTERS WORSE: The Psychology of Catastrophizing!
Audience: Anyone struggling with Anger, Anxiety, Panic, & those who love them.
Psychotherapy Adventurers: Gamer Girl Heather, Super Bookworm Sarah, Squirrel Girl Debbie, & Doc Heath
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Show Summary: In this episode . . .
TherapyBites Podcast is the home of the A.R.T. LAB which investigates, explores, & educates all about the neuroscience of Accurate, Realistic Thoughts & Life Affirming Beliefs by challenging worn out, unsubstantiated, ivory tower psychological theories as well as kool-aid drinking, pseudo-psychological social media clap-trap.
Today we venture into the deeper, darker recesses BENEATH the therapy couch to explore a concept often misunderstood by patients and clinicians alike.
Are you trying to rid your life of ANGER? Is your clinician fooling you and THEMSELVES; thinking life may be lived WITHOUT anxiety? Are you one of the many who THINK that stress and panic are DEADLY? This episode is calling your name.
The brain is an assembly line for REALITY. It is INSIDE the confines of the vault of your skull that YOU get to DECIDE the progression of OUTER reality AND the emotions MANUFACTURED in response to those thoughts.
On today’s episode we put some real-life shoe leather on the neuropsychology of an often-practiced COGNITIVE DISTORTION known by clinics experienced in “cognitive psychology” as CATASTROPHIZING. Join our curious band of psychotherapy adventurers on a journey into the valleys, nooks, & crannies of catastrophic thinking and learn how it can SHRINKIFY your life, while EMBIGGENING your anger, anxiety, & panic and needlessly siphon attention, energy, and relationships.
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USEFUL REFERENCES:
Askari, I. The Role of the Belief System for Anger Management of Couples with Anger and Aggression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective. J Rat-Emo Cognitive-Behav Ther 37, 223–240 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-018-0307-5
Neufang, S., Geiger, M.J., Homola, G.A. et al. Cognitive-behavioral therapy effects on alerting network activity and effective connectivity in panic disorder. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 269, 587–598 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-018-0945-8
Yang, Y., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2014). The neural correlates of cognitive behavioral therapy: Recent progress in the investigation of patients with panic disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 62, 88-96.
FOR OUR READERS . . . GOBBLE UP THE WHOLE THING!!! (Transcript): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a1ZEnX9EtFDr7LvtKuou7K7Cv9SPXC_yB3Ky4R3G3eY/edit?usp=sharing
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E8. Hallows, Haunts, & Scary Places: The Psychology of Halloween (p. 2)
October 27, 2022
•34m
FRESH from the Therapy Couch: Hallows, Haunts, & Scary Places: The Psychology of Halloween (p.2)
Psychotherapy Adventurers: Gamer Girl Heather, Super Bookwork Sarah, & Squirrel Girl Debbie
Go to https://TherapyBites.myshopify.com & grab some A.R.T. LAB MERCH, specially designed to help keep this episode’s message “top of mind” in your life! Don’t forget friends & family members who could use a mental boost too.
Show Summary: In this episode . . .
TherapyBites Podcast is the home of the A.R.T. LAB which investigates, explores, & educates all about the neuroscience of Accurate, Realistic Thoughts & Life Affirming Beliefs.
Today we tackle how the human brain “Geo-Tags” places as safe or unsafe.
Have you experienced FEAR in response to a PLACE? Perhaps you’ve been to a real-life HAUNTED house, HAUNTED forest, HAUNTED street, highway, byway?
But, is it really the SPACE “out there” that’s HAUNTED or the SPACE between our ears? The dark recesses of the mind.
On today’s episode we discuss the neuropsychology of place-based fear and TERROR. Join our curious band of psychotherapy adventurers on a journey into the darkness of Hallows, Haunts, & Scary Places as we autopsy what’s really going on in the depths of the human brain at Halloween.
Think of the brain as having many rooms, each with velcro walls. Experiences are then stored in different ways in those rooms based upon how we decide to label them. Labeling them as a risk or danger to us causes the brain to be more on the lookout for a repeat of those dangerous experiences. If it LOOKS, SOUNDS, SMELLS similar to a former dangerous experience, then it must also - though different - be just as dangerous as the remembered former experience.
The best strategy is COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING; deciding, based on EVIDENCE, what spaces & places are ACTUALLY threats to life & limb Each of us get to decide what to velcro on the interior walls of our brains. Velcro with care this Halloween!!!
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USEFUL REFERENCES:
Camina E, Güell F. The Neuroanatomical, Neurophysiological and Psychological Basis of Memory: Current Models and Their Origins. Front Pharmacol. 2017 Jun 30;8:438. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2017.00438. PMID: 28713278; PMCID: PMC5491610.
Dagnall N, Drinkwater KG, O'Keeffe C, Ventola A, Laythe B, Jawer MA, Massullo B, Caputo GB, Houran J. Things That Go Bump in the Literature: An Environmental Appraisal of "Haunted Houses". Front Psychol. 2020 Jun 12;11:1328. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01328. PMID: 32595577; PMCID: PMC7304295.
Eichenbaum H, Yonelinas AP, Ranganath C. The medial temporal lobe and recognition memory. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2007;30:123-52. doi: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.30.051606.094328. PMID: 17417939; PMCID: PMC2064941.
FOR OUR READERS . . . GOBBLE UP THE WHOLE THING!!! (Transcript): https://docs.google.com/document/d/17HQiqSdFkix7SDEgrKdRpw7mK-HGXzz-b4erMNWUOpA/edit?usp=sharing
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E10. Please Pardon My ANGER: The Psychology of Difficult Emotions!
November 10, 2022
•44m
Please Pardon My ANGER: The Psychology of Difficult Emotions!
Audience: Fellow Clinicians, fellow strugglers with Irritation - Disgust - Anger - Rage, & those who love them.
Psychotherapy Adventurers: Gamer Girl Heather, Super Bookworm Sarah, Squirrel Girl Debbie, & Doc Heath
Go to https://TherapyBites.myshopify.com & grab some A.R.T. LAB MERCH, specially designed to help keep this episode’s message “top of mind” in your life! Don’t forget friends & family members who could use a mental boost too.
Show Summary: In this episode . . .
TherapyBites Podcast is the home of A.R.T. LAB which investigates, explores, & educates all about the neuroscience of Accurate, Realistic Thoughts & Life Affirming Beliefs by challenging worn-out, unsubstantiated, ivory tower psychological theories as well as kool-aid drinking, pseudo-psychological social media clap-trap.
Today we venture into the deeper, darker recesses BENEATH the therapy couch to explore one of the MOST UNPOPULAR human experiences; a particularly difficult emotion often misunderstood by patients AND clinicians alike.
Should we lobby congress for a law against anger? Judges routinely refer patients to us for “Anger Management”. Two of our favorite actors, Jack Nicholson & Adam Sandler, tackled the topic in a 2003 movie by that very title. Each day, we hear anger demonized as if it is a plague on par with pandemics. But, pardon OUR anger at this, for what is so very pathological about anger, anyway?
Humans are actually engineered for anger and 9 other basic emotions; all completely normal to the human experience: Happy, Sad, Mad, Glad, Disgusted, Ashamed, Stressed, Depressed, Anxious, & Angry are each ABILITIES common to humanity. Imagine DELETING the difficult ones? Red pill or blue pill? Red pill? Presto! All difficult emotions EVAPORATED for-ever! A blessing? Or, a curse?
Join us on today’s episode as we DE-catastrophize ANGER and differentiate it from BEHAVIOR. We can experience our anger AND engage in healthy, adaptive behaviors simultaneously. Anger can add value and meaning to YOUR human experiences AND relationships.
Visit the TBAL Team at: https://therapybites.ac-page.com/team
CLICK BELOW FOR DAILY LIFE-AFFIRMING, PSYCHOLOGICALLY NUTRITIOUS INFO:
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USEFUL REFERENCES:
Dougherty DD, Shin LM, Alpert NM, Pitman RK, Orr SP, Lasko M, Macklin ML, Fischman AJ, Rauch SL. Anger in healthy men: a PET study using script-driven imagery. Biol Psychiatry. 1999 Aug 15;46(4):466-72. doi: 10.1016/s0006-3223(99)00063-3. PMID: 10459395.
Kashdan, T. and Biswas-Diener, R. (2014). The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self—Not Just your “Good” Self—Drives Success and Fulfillment. New York: Hudson Street Press.
Staske, S. A. (1998). The Normalization Of Problematic Emotion In Conversations Between Close Relational Partners: Interpersonal Emotion Work. Symbolic Interaction, 21(1), 59–86. https://doi.org/10.1525/si.1998.21.1.59
FOR OUR READERS . . . GOBBLE UP THE WHOLE THING!!! (Transcript): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1edXD-ImR1-RfRcW5C5yYFHzmioUMf8yMHFk3Oy1UWQA/edit?usp=sharing
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