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2022

What will your Word of the Year Be? What word feels like a good fit for the overall theme of what you hope to accomplish in 2022? What word can you check in with yourself from time to time to make sure you’re honoring it? Throw out those new years resolutions; if you made them… maybe use them to help you brainstorm your word. Is there a theme?

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anxiety, Depression, mental health Colleen Riggs anxiety, Depression, mental health Colleen Riggs

Challenging Unhelpful Thinking Patterns

If you have made it this far you have hopefully already read my blogs over the past 2 weeks regarding Core Beliefs and Unhelpful Thinking Patterns. Today we’re going to focus on a few different ways to challenge this negative unhelpful thinking. Some of this may look familiar if you read my blog “A New Year a New You.” In this blog I am going to give a few different ways to challenge this unhelpful thinking and let you decide which one(s) work best for you.

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ADHD, anxiety, Depression, mental health Colleen Riggs ADHD, anxiety, Depression, mental health Colleen Riggs

Unhelpful thinking patterns we all fall victim to…

Unhelpful thinking patterns are very quick, automatic patterns of thinking that you have about yourself, others and life in general and they are often in line with your core beliefs. They are typically negative, judgmental, exaggerated, inflexible, rigid and very convincing. On top of that, they distort reality and contribute to feelings of depression, anger, stress, loneliness, hopelessness, helplessness, distrust, anxiety and fear. Other terms for thinking distortions are “Cognitive Distortions”, “Negative Thinking Patterns”, “Thought Distortions”, or “Automatic Thinking.”

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Depression, mental health Colleen Riggs Depression, mental health Colleen Riggs

Suicide and Self-Harm

Suicide is not a topic that many people openly talk about, even mental health providers often have a hard time asking patients about their suicidal thoughts, plans, if they have the means to follow through with the plan and what is their level of intent. But these are very important conversations we need to be having, not just as providers but with our loved ones.

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Self-Care for Essential Workers

Whether you are a doctor, nurse, therapist, assistant, fast food employee, delivery driver, sanitation worker, etc; you have and always will be “essential” but now that you are working endlessly and tirelessly who is taking care of you? Many of you are being forced to work long never ending hours and many of you are having to live separately from your families wether that is by choice to protect them or necessity. This is leading to further isolation when our mental health needs it the most. I want to let you know that you are not alone! There are many people out there to support you and who are in the same boat, I highly encouraged you to reach out for support.

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