Fellow blogger, Therapy Doc, has great post on anger. I’ve excerpted parts of it below, but click here to get to her entire post. It will have you fuming!!! (Kidding, of course.) There’s another “new” development in therapy. New is in quotation marks because for family therapists, the idea that arguing is healthy isn’t at…

There is a great discussion thread on anger started by Group Beyond Blue member Belleo that you can find by clicking here, or going to the group discussion board of Group Beyond Blue at Beliefnet Community. Thanks Belleo! To read more Beyond Blue, go to www.beliefnet.com/beyondblue, and to get to Group Beyond Blue, a support…

I spent an hour last week telling my therapist that I wasn’t a perfectionist, and that David’s disabling perfectionism had nothing to do with my behavior. That’s partially true. I’m not a perfectionist in that I’m a slob. My house is trashed. I can barely find matching socks in the morning, much less apply make-up.…

Hara Estroff Marano suggests the following techniques in her article, “Pitfalls of Perfectionism,” to let go of perfectionsim: Perfectionists fear that if they give up perfectionism, they won’t be good anymore at anything; they’ll fall apart. In fact, perfectionism harms performance more than it helps. The worst thing about it, says Randy Frost [a professor…

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