2/5 “Resilience during and after adversity requires the capacities to bear strong feelings (‘affect tolerance’), modulate them (‘affective processing’ or ‘affect regulation’), and govern their expression so that they lead to adaptive rather than destructive outcomes.”

While #RUOKDay began with good intentions, we desperately need greater ACTUAL support of MH services in Australia. Once people have realised they are ‘not okay’ there are few professional avenues through which support can be obtained

Were you the “good kid” who “parents never had to worry about”? Watch out for those kids. They may turn up in therapy 10-20 years later with repressed emotions, overfunctioning, and the inability to ask for help because they’ve always had to be perfect.

Listening to a dad in this coffee shop explain to a ~4yo that Darth Vader was “a man with a lot of big feelings who didn’t have anyone to help him express them the right way.”

Knew it was coming but am still so, so disappointed. The solution to the bottleneck in Psychology is increased training opportunities, not underfunding vital #Mentalhealth care. abc.net.au/news/2022-12-1…

On the same day Labor have confirmed they want to “compensate” (hand over public money) to multinational coal corps. they have also announced they are cutting the 10 extra Medicare funded psychologist sessions. Cutting Medicare & giving $$$ to coal corps. That’s modern Labor

How much louder does the mental health lobby need to be to enact meaningful change? In EVERY survey you see going around, the community tell us that mental health is their greatest concern and most important to them. This is disappointing politics. abc.net.au/news/2022-12-1…

Things that would actually improve mental health care that aren't cutting sessions: (1) increase funding for postgraduate training- we have 10-20x the applicants as we have places and run at a loss, (2) allow 5+1s access to Medicare rebates, (3) *increase* rebates per session.

Today's poetry thread: ACCEPTANCE "Even your parents can't believe how much you've changed." 🕳 Feel free to add poems.

Gabbard’s law “Adjust the treatment to the patient, not the patient to the treatment. Patients supervise us and teach us. We are wise to allow ourselves to learn from their feedback.”

"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy." - Carl Jung

New paper, "Suicidal Thinking as Affect Regulation", published in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science with Yael Millgram, Evan Kleiman, Becky, Alex Millner, Maddy Frumkin, Kate Bentley, and Matthew Nock! psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-61…

“Social anxiety and loneliness are like partners in crime. We cant prevent the epidemic of loneliness facing our generation unless we target them both.” Michelle Lim Day 3 at the National Suicide Prevention Conference #NSPC23 Suicide Prevention Australia

Psych of Aesthetics, Creativity & the Arts (APA Div 10 journal) is looking to fill 2 associate editor positions, beginning August 1. Come work with a great team, focusing on the latest and most interesting research in psych of creativity and the arts! div10.org/paca-associate…

Are you a high-performance coach in Australia? We want to hear from you! We are inviting Australian elite-level sports coaches to participate in a survey exploring beliefs about mental health. You will go into a draw to win 1 of 20 $100 vouchers! Link: bit.ly/43OsLn7

“The complicity & silence of bystanders - friends, relatives, & neighbours, not to mention officials of the law - feel like a profound betrayal… Often, survivors will feel the bitterness of these betrayals more deeply even than the direct harms inflicted by perpetrators.”

Here it is! ‘Play It Safe’ for Sydney Opera House’s 50th birthday! Watch it LOUD, using headphones preferably, and on the biggest screen you’ve got! #SydneyOperaHouse Sydney Opera House Full Credits under the vid on YouTube: youtu.be/l8ouigVtUvo

"In therapy, all roads lead to Rome. We can start anywhere, but we end up at loss, vulnerability, guilt, shamefulness, and anger, and these feelings are what most psychological and behavioral symptoms aim to manage." ~ Martha Sweezy