How to improve sensitivity & resilience. Essential for PTSD and BPD.

Sensitivity and Distress are common to many common mental health concerns: Anxiety, Panic, Borderline Personality, hypersensitive personality (high neuroticism), PTSD and anger. All these states have increased sensitivity as a factor which leads to Distress and Emotional Overwhelm.

Sure meds like SSRIs will reduce sensitivity (at least for a while), but there's plenty you can do to optimise your resilience so that you're not as sensitive and thereby not as prone to Distress and Emotional Overwhelm.

We get into how you can reduce hypersensitivity (thereby improve resilience).
We also get into the thing which commonly increase sensitivity (things that worsen resilience).

Jess O'Garr (Clinical Psychologist) explains a model of temperament using the metaphor of 'orchids' (more sensitive) and 'daisies' (less sensitive).

Dr Al Griskaitis (Psychiatrist) and Jess discuss the various factors which worsens sensitivity including:
Accumulation of stressors (chaos)
Inadequate sleep
Inadequate downtime/recharge time
Unresolved trauma
Being unwell or hungover
Inflammation
"bad days"
Meaninglessness/lack of role
Non-acceptance
Avoiding Discomfort

And also elaborate some of the factors which improve sensitivity:
Carefully working through issues to lessen chaos and how to do that
Moderate exercise to improve stamina and energy
Sleep
Deployment of appropriate skills (e.g. Distress Cycle, STOP, TIPP)
Medications
Willingness to tolerate discomfort
#skillsbeforepills #BPD #hypersensitivity

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