Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to do some mythbusting. College students seem to be care free. Well taken care of and with seemedly no responsibility except to study subjects of their choice, have a wonderful social life develop as human beings. Or? In one study examing the mental health of college students shows that students attending a large public university were screened looking at symptoms of anxiety, depression eating disorders and self injury and suicide. Results s...
Sep 02, 2013•30 min
Why it matters that we make a more compassion world and what does evolution tell us about cooperation? Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS The Washington post writes that just about every part of the US has been hit by some form of terrorist attack since 1970. Since the Oklahoma city bombing, a greater port of terrorist attacks have been carried out by individuals rather than organized groups. Stigma is defined as a social mark that leads to discrediting of mem...
Jun 24, 2013•31 min
Safety and the prevention of accidents at the workplace is a subject that interests all of us. Accidents and violation of safety regulations can be disastrous not only to those workers and work places that are directly effected by also to society as a whole. It can be loss of human life, loss of public confidence in these services. Examples reported in the news are many from deaths of mine workers due to unsafe mining practices, Death of subway workers due to failure to follow regulations while ...
Jun 17, 2013•31 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to discuss something that we hope can be useful for many of us. How ACT and a sister therapy called CRAFT can help those family members who have someone close with an addiction. I know from personal experience the frustration and feelings of hopelessness you can feel around having a loved one priortize alcohol over her family, over life. And continue to make this choice resulting in death. I know I reacted as a child by trying deparately to ...
Jun 10, 2013•42 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about a relatively new phenomena that makes psychological treatment assessable and affordable to most of us. It is estimate that one in four persons will suffer from anxiety disorder and one in five will experience serious depression at some point in life. Anxiety and mood disorders are among the most common causes of ill health, lost productivity, and inability to work. Moreover, many of those affected suffer from other physical and...
Jun 03, 2013•28 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope Today we are going to discuss something that many of us know little about but which concerns us all. The mental health of those people that are incarcerated in our prisons. It has been recently shown that the prevalence of mental disorders among prisoners is at least 5 times the rate as in the general population. IN addition, harsh prison conditions cause even more inmates to experience breakdowns, commit suicide, traumatizing formerly normal prisoners making t...
May 20, 2013•29 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. One thing we all share as parents is the emotional pain of watching your child in pain. Something happens inside us as parents when we see our children suffer that is excruciating and despite the fact the we know better we likely get overwhelmed and do anything to stop the child’s suffering. If we could choose we as parents would probably like to carry all our children’s pain throughout life so that they never needed to suffer. At the same time we know that it...
May 06, 2013•35 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to discuss something that has been said to be the biggest causes of emotional problems: Shame. The word shame means to hide or to cover up. We all feel shame from time to time. Shame makes our problems seem bigger and makes us seem smaller and alone with what we feel. Shame makes us want to bury our heads in the sand and hope either me or the problem or both will disappear. It is one thing to have and experience painful emotions that are ine...
Apr 29, 2013•40 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to have a discussion about something we all do but when we do it alot, we get ourselves into trouble. Eating or not eating for emotional reasons. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Think about why you eat. You already know what foods are healthy for you and what are so called ‘junk foods’ . Despite knowing all this that you probably find yourself craving potato chips or chocolate or cookies. When you feel ...
Apr 22, 2013•33 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are having a discussion about a potentially dangerous psychological disorder called depression. People who suffer from depression are more susceptible to medical illness, possible suicide and may have shorter life span. About 60 % of people who become depressed are likely to become depressed again. Statistically most depressions last for about 6 months, for others dpression can go on for years. Certainly depression is something to watch out for and kn...
Apr 15, 2013•32 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about sports. About how Psychology and ACT can be used to help athletes perform with precision and efficacy and at the same time increase their own balance and well being. Most of us have probably played some sports during our school years. When I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s in the US any young person interested in a sport could play in some function or another. Today there seems to be much more competition and high stakes involved ...
Apr 08, 2013•31 min
Welcome to ACT , taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to have a conversation about something that is centrally important to all of us in every stage of life from the new born child, through all of childhood, adolescence, young adults, middle aged persons and right through to those who are at the end stages of life. Intimacy. One definition of intimacy that might cover all stages of life could be a physical and emotional connection between two people. An intimate relationship is often defined ...
Mar 25, 2013•31 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we have an especially attractive program for you. Something we are all interested in but may have difficulties in expressing because of the ways we were brought up. We are going to talk about sex. Sexual feelings are unpredictable, confusing and many times hard to control. Some of us are lucky to grow up in families that help us to accept our sexual feelings as natural phenomena that come and go. We may also learn that sexual feelings and sexual behavior...
Mar 18, 2013•34 min
Today we are going to talk about something that we all feel from time to time : Depression. This means that we feel low, or sad or down in the dumps. Sometimes we may have a so called reason for feeling unhappy. we may have just experienced a loss. This could be a loss of a function, like a hearing loss or a loss of a loved one in death or separation. It could be a loss of a job or friends when we have moved away. Sometimes we can feel blue for no particular reason. What we call clinical depress...
Mar 11, 2013•34 min
Welcome to ACT Taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about how we can help ourselves and those dear to us when we get a life threatening illness and or when we are faced with the fact that we don? t have long to live. We all know we will die at some point and most of us have an idea that we will live healthy to a ripe old age and then die peacefully. It can be quite a chock to get a diagnosis of cancer, for example in mid life or even as a young person. How we relate to this informatio...
Mar 04, 2013•31 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Join us today for a discussion of something that we probably all have felt from time to time. Stress at the workplace. Work is often listed at the top when we think of what makes us happy. But on the other hand the word ?work? is often thought of as a necessary evil. Something that we think of that we ?must? do rather than something that we choose. Work-related stress is defined as a harmful reaction people have to undue pressures and demands place on them at ...
Feb 25, 2013•27 min
Welcome to another episode of ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about a hurt we have all experienced to some degree and probably found our way out of, at least to some degree. Something we might called displacement. You have probably moved from one town to another, one school to another. Maybe one country to another. Moving from familiar surroundings of what we might call ‘home’ to a strange place causes feelings of disorientation and uncertainty. This is a challenge that requi...
Feb 18, 2013•25 min
Welcome to ACT, taking hurt to hope. Join us today for a discussion about a special kind of struggle. All of us who are parents know that bringing up children is a challenge. For parents with special needs children, it may be even more of a challenge. In this program we are going to discuss about the special difficulties for families that have experienced trauma like death, violence, or children with severe emotional or behavioral problems or children with chronic illness. Today we have with us ...
Feb 11, 2013•35 min
Welcome to ACT: taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about something we probably all do to ourselves and others on a daily basis and something which is more harmful psychological than you think. Stigma. Stigma is defined as the dehumanization of an individual based on a social identity or participation in a negative or undesirable social category. Commonly we might call others or ourselves as idiots, fatsos, or might call someone a slush, a whore, or a gangster. A person who is stigma...
Feb 04, 2013•24 min
Welcome to another episode of ACT taking hurt to hope on Webtalkradio.net Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Join us today for a discussion about a common problem, a problem that about 20% of people between the ages of 55 and 65 have. Tinnitus. The word tinnitus means simply ringing. It is defined as the perception of sound with the ear when there is no corresponding external sound. That is you hear a ringing that others dont hear. Tinnitus is not a disease bu...
Jan 28, 2013•29 min
Join me for a discussion of something which is very important and very secret for many, painful intercourse. If you get pain during intercourse, you are not alone. In a recent Swedish survey taking, 1 out of 10 women experience pain, with a higher frequency among younger more sexually inexperienced woman and fewer if you are over 50. This is a special problem since sex is supposed to be enjoyable and happy experience, and this type of pain definately puts a damper on the specific experience but ...
Jan 21, 2013•28 min
How is writing stage plays similar to psychotherapy in general and ACT in particular? In general, all drama is telling a story about the adventures of a character who, in trying to achieve an aim, is faced with obstacles, he or she struggles with and in most cases, overcomes. The hero?s struggles with the obstacles constitutes the drama. In psychotherapy, the client also has an aim or what we call in ACT for a valued direction, and is also faced with obstacles which most often pull him off track...
Jan 14, 2013•25 min
Lets talk about a psychological state that has gotten a bad wrap. Anxiety. Anxiety is very common just before we are confronted with something challenging like a test, a work interview, public speaking or getting married. In most cases this is not a problem, Just a natural reaction to this challenge. In many cases this has to do with me being evaluated. When anxiety gets out of proportion and starts to interfere with your everyday function, you might get a diagnosis. There are usually three part...
Jan 07, 2013•37 min
Join us today in a subject that we all talk about, and none of us like it but really we don’t know what it is. Stress. What is stress? In one definition I have seen. Stress us an instinctive defense reaction that helps us survive. Our stress reaction is powerfully intelligent. This stress reaction prepares us for physical activity, our body reacts with increase heart rate, higher blood pressure and effective breathing. Our muscles tense and immune defense gets activated. stress hormones like adr...
Dec 31, 2012•35 min
Join us today for a discussion about what I think is the most difficult, the most painful and the greatest source of joy in my life, parenting children. Parenting is stressful. There’s no way of getting around that. And since we don’t like stress, we all have the tendency to avoid. One of the main ways parents avoid stress when dealing with children is to try and control the emotional reactions of the child. This move gets us into all kinds of trouble. Our guests today are Dr D.J Moran , the exe...
Dec 24, 2012•40 min
Join us today for a discussion about one of the most common reasons people stay home from work and one of our best held secrets, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). This is a disorder that may feel like cramps or stomach pain. The stomach is directly connected to the brain in special ways so that those same nerves that cause stress also cause our gut to become more sensitive and tend to squeeze or contract and this hurts!. About one in 6 people in the US have symptoms of IBS making it our most commo...
Dec 17, 2012•41 min
Join us today for a discussion about an issue that most all of us have experience of in one way or another. Drinking problems. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) there are at least 140 million alcoholics in the world, and the majority of them are not treated. A US study estimated that about 30% of Americans report having an alcoholic disorder at some time in their lives. Besides personal costs alcoholism affects people around us. The NIH says that over half of all American traffic ...
Dec 10, 2012•33 min
Join us today for a discussion about what we do when reality slaps us in the face. Events that come out of left field in life can and do hurt. Reality slaps us much harder when identify ourselves with certain pictures of the way our lives ?should look?. What happens, for example, when you identify yourself as a solid married person and suddenly your partner leaves you? A slap from reality hurts. No doubt about it, and when we hurt we naturally brace ourselves with resistance or non-acceptance. Y...
Dec 03, 2012•34 min
We never learn in school how to deal with those chronic illnesses that we carry and which break out at some point in our lives. Join us today as we speak with Dr David Gillanders http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/health/clinical-psychology/people/teaching-staff?person_id=20&cw_xml=profile.php from the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. David has vast experience of working with most chronic illness from skin disorders to infectious diseases. He...
Nov 26, 2012•34 min
Suicide means the process of purposely ending one’s own life. Nearly one million people worldwide commit suicide each year, and somewhere between 10 -20 million attempt suicide. For teenagers and young adults suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death and rates are on the increase. As far as we know human beings are the only species on this earth that commits suicide. How can ACT help to prevent suicide? Join us today in talking with Dr Kevin Polk, who is the psychology chief in the Veterans Affa...
Nov 19, 2012•33 min
