Dealing with Depression Guide
Depression can make life very painful and basic tasks difficult. If you are someone who struggles with depression, use this video collection guide to learn practical ways to break the cycle of depression and prevent depression in the future!
View the videos in order and commit to implement the skills and strategies into your life. These videos will help to break a cycle of current anxiety and also prevent future depressive episodes.
Start improving your life today and live with more peace and joy.
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Intro to Dealing with Depression
Depression can make life very painful and basic tasks difficult. If you are someone who struggles with depression, use this video collection to learn practical ways to break the cycle of depression and prevent depression in the future!
Start improving your life today and live with more peace a...
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Understanding Depression
Learn about depression, it's causes, behaviors that increase vulnerability to depression, and behaviors that may keep depression from resolving.
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Break the Cycle of Depression: Seven Practices
Learn Seven practices to help prevent depression and also to break the cycle of depression.
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Thinking Mistakes
This video describes numerous common thinking patterns that can increase negative emotion and make life more difficult to handle.
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Quieting Obsessional Thinking
Obsessional thinking can cause major stress and overwhelm. It is often happens when people experience anxiety or depression and can get in the way of creating emotional balance. Follow this approach to help reduce obsessional thinking to be more effective and reduce emotional stress.
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Building Mastery & Coping Ahead
Learn the DBT Skills of Building Mastery and Coping Ahead. Build competence by doing things to increase mastery. Learn to cope ahead for difficult situations to be able to be prepared to act effectively.
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Loving Kindness Meditation
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Loving Kindness Instruction
Loving kindness is a mindfulness practice that can help to increase compassion of love your yourself and others. It can protect us and also help to keep us from holding onto judgmental and ill will towards ourselves and others. When practiced regularly, loving kindness practice can improve mood a...
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The Power of Gratitude
Gratitude is a great way to lift mood and improve the moment. Setting up a regular gratitude practice is an effective way to bring greater positivity into your life and to combat depression and low mood.
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Accumulating Positives in the Short-term
Learn how to increase positive emotions in the short term. Learn how to be mindful of positive experiences and also the importance of filling up your emotional piggy bank. Part of the DBT Skills ABC PLEASE.
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Health Practices for Emotional Balance
Your health influences your mood in powerful ways. Learn the very important DBT PLEASE skills. Learn how physical health, nutrition, sleep, refraining from mood-altering substances, and balanced exercise are essential for maintaining balanced mood.
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Improving Sleep
Sleep is essential for overcoming depression. Learn ways to improve sleep and make it easier to fall asleep.
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Exercise for Mental Health
Learn how exercise can improve your emotional health and wellbeing. Learn how to develop an active lifestyle that is sustainable and life enhancing.
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Creating an Antidepressant Lifestyle Handout
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Quieting Obsessional Thinking Handout
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