Learn useful skills to help prevent depression and also alleviate depressive symptoms.
Learn about depression, it's causes, behaviors that increase vulnerability to depression, and behaviors that may keep depression from resolving.
Learn Seven practices to help prevent depression and also to break the cycle of depression.
Make a plan for how you will integrate seven practices that will help to prevent and break the cycle of depression.
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.
Learn how to increase positive emotions in the short term. Part of the DBT Skills ABC PLEASE.
List of pleasurable activities to help increase positive emotions in the short term.
This video describes numerous common thinking patterns that can increase negative emotion and make life more difficult to handle.
In this handout you'll find some common thinking mistakes, which can lead to misinterpreting situations and experiencing painful emotions. Try to notice (nonjudgmentally) when use one of these thinking mistakes and see if you can come up with a new dialectical thought in its place.
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...
Listen to the guided loving kindness meditation to bring more loving kindness and compassion to yourself and others. This practice is helpful for helping to generate positivity and reduce emotional suffering.
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.
Learn ways to improve sleep and make it easier to fall asleep.
Yoga practice to help your body and mind to relax and unwind.
Learn how exercise can improve your emotional health and wellbeing. Learn how to develop an active lifestyle that is sustainable and life enhancing.
Learn how nutrition can influence your mood. Receive basic guidelines for balanced nutrition.
Observe if you are following some basic balanced health practices. Develop a plan for increasing balanced health practices.
