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Superthinkers: Is your anxiety keeping you from your values? (1 min read)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety, Values

Just because it may feel like your anxiety can’t live without you, doesn’t mean you have to let it dictate your life. #superthinker

Superthinkers: How laughter can help you better understand yourself (1 min read)

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Pure is a comedy drama fictional adaptation of Rose Cartwright’s memoirs about experiencing obsessive compulsive disorder. The show follows 24-year old, Marnie, who in the beginning feels isolated for having very strange sexual thoughts. She then discovers that...

Superthinkers: Check out this superhero (2 min read)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

What superpowers do you share with “The Ultimate Worrier?” #superthinker

Superthinkers: See how your OCD is tricking you (2 min read)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Veronica is a participant in Young Faces of Mental Illness, a collaboration with SANE and batyr supporting young adults to share their stories, here she shares 5 lies her OCD tells her. Your thoughts are dangerous: Your OCD may tell you that your thoughts are...

Superthinkers and superfeelers: Do you avoid your emotions? (1 min read)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

This comic from the Awkward Yeti seems to capture so much about how superfeelers and superthinkers might interact with difficult feelings, and use technology and social media. Who can relate to going on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Snapchat as soon as something...

Superthinkers: Think you can think your way out of anxiety? (<1 min)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety

It feels productive to try and sort your anxious thoughts and think your way into making sense of them, but that’s just your brain heaping on more anxiety. Better to open the field of vision, so the anxiety is not a roadblock, and continue to move in line...