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Dr Devashish Palkar

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Apr 4

WORRY POSTPONEMENT TECHNIQUE. 🧵

Patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) spend significant amounts of time engaged in worry. Engagement in worry is reinforced by the beliefs that worry is uncontrollable, and that worry prevents the occurrence of negative events.
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The technique was first described in study by Borkovec et al (1983) where it was prescribed as a daily 30 minute ‘stimulus control’ task. The patient’s task was to notice that they were worrying and then deliberately choose to delay engaging in the worry until a later time.
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The technique
1.Mentally agree to pay attention to your worries
2.Choose a specific time in the day when you will return to them
3. As that time arrives, either start thinking or consider postponing worries to another specific time. Whenever possible, choose to postpone.
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Dr Devashish Palkar

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Mar 26

SLEEP & SUCCESS.
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"Tonight, I will burn the midnight oil! I am going to study like a king. Won't sleep till I finish reading everything!"
I am sure many might have thought like this some or the other time during their student days.
Some might have even executed this.
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But is it wise to sacrifice your sleep before exams?
Is it safe to do that?
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Let's first understand why we think like this?
1. It's quite natural to think that if you sleep less, you will have more waking hours and therefore you will be able to study more. 2/n

2.Another thought behind this could be your belief that "Sleeping is a luxury or sleeping is a sign of laziness"

3. Or it could be due to certain beliefs passed on to us like,
"Dreams are not what you see in sleep,
Dreams are something that don't let you sleep!"
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Dr Devashish Palkar

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Mar 25

HEAT & MENTAL HEALTH.
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The amount of sunshine, temperature and humidity have a great effect on our mood.
Extreme heat has been associated with a range of mental health impact like increases in irritability and symptoms of depression and increase in suicide.
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In a study from 1984, APS Fellow Douglas Kenrick and Steven MacFarlane observed that drivers get more aggressive on hotter days.
The correlational link between high temperatures and aggressive behavior is called the "heat hypothesis"

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It has been shown in behaviors ranging from murder and assault to car thefts. A 2015 analysis of 118,489 motor vehicle crashes in Spain found that the estimated risk of crashes was 7.7% higher during heat waves compared with similarly warm days with less extreme heat.
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Dr Devashish Palkar

@psychidiaries

Mar 23

"TOXIC POSITIVITY"

Toxic Positivity is the suppression of real, negative emotions through phrases like:

• “Be positive!”, “Cheer up!” or “Look on the bright side!”

• “Get over it” or “Move on.”

• “It’s all going to be okay” or “Everything is going to work out.”
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Such statements are often well-intentioned—people just don't know what else to say and don't know how to be empathetic. Still, it is important to recognize that these responses can be harmful.
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Toxic Positivity is a "good vibes only" approach to life. And while there are benefits to being an optimist and engaging in positive thinking, toxic positivity instead rejects difficult emotions in favor of a cheerful, often falsely positive, facade.
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