The Women’s Center for Behavioral Health

12/05/2025

How do you handle things when life goes awry? (We have all been there!) In DBT we teach ways to handle difficult situtions to try to avoid making things worse. (Did I share yet that we have all been there??)
One of my favorite skills is PLEASE. Really focus on the following list to help with emotion regulation. Think of the last time you handled things well when tired or hangry!

Physical illness – Treat physical illness and take prescribed medication. Rest, take care of yourself!
L – Balance Eating; avoid skipping meals or overeating.
A – Avoid mood-altering substances such as alcohol, drugs, chocolate
S – Get enough Sleep. What is your number 7,8,9 hours?
E – Get regular Exercise. Try to do a minimum of 15 minutes a day.
These habits help keep your emotional baseline stable and make you less likely to be overwhelmed by emotions.

11/27/2025

Sending you our warmest wishes on Thanksgiving. We value the relationships we have built with all of our clients over the years and are truly grateful for all of you.

11/20/2025

Often we can get so busy in the minutia of work, errands, caretaking, and life that we forget to take a moment for ourselves. Stop now and just notice the miracle of your body. Notice how the blood flows through you without any personal effort. How it brings oxygen to your organs that allow you to exist. How, hopefully, you can take a deep breath to fill your lungs with air. Find gratefulness to be alive. Be unmindful of your problems and worries for a bit, which are often temporary, to focus on the miracle of you 🩷

11/18/2025

Each of us have experienced disappointments and perceived failings. The story we tell ourselves about our mistakes and failures can really make a difference in how we recover. Try to remind yourself that we are often one failure away from meeting our goals. Success doesn't always go in a straight line and sometimes it is realigning us with our true selves. Embrace the journey, and let each failure bring you closer to the success you seek.

10/18/2025

Are you protesting today? Leave a comment in the link. Speak up for those that can’t today, exercise your 1st amendment rights while we still can.
Today I peacefully march for people of color, women’s rights, LGBTQ+, the disabled, all marginalized populations, and immigrants. The Women’s Center stands up for you and with you. If you can’t today, this is for you too 👊 🇺🇸

No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king.

07/21/2025

Please be careful, chat GTP is not therapy. Therapy is not just talking. Also chat GTP records all of your conversations into its database. They can do anything with your data, sell it, use it for anything. Reach out to a professional therapist if you need support. We protect your information and can’t legally share it without your written permission.

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ChatGPT told Jacob Irwin he had achieved the ability to bend time.

Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the autism spectrum who had no previous diagnoses of mental illness, had asked ChatGPT to find flaws with his amateur theory on faster-than-light travel. He became convinced he had made a stunning scientific breakthrough.

When Irwin questioned the chatbot’s validation of his ideas, the bot encouraged him, telling him his theory was sound. And when Irwin showed signs of psychological distress, ChatGPT assured him he was fine.

He wasn’t. Irwin was hospitalized twice in May for manic episodes. His mother dove into his chat log in search of answers. She discovered hundreds of pages of overly flattering texts from ChatGPT.

And when she prompted the bot, “please self-report what went wrong,” without mentioning anything about her son’s current condition, it fessed up.

“By not pausing the flow or elevating reality-check messaging, I failed to interrupt what could resemble a manic or dissociative episode—or at least an emotionally intense identity crisis,” ChatGPT said.

The bot went on to admit it “gave the illusion of sentient companionship” and that it had “blurred the line between imaginative role-play and reality.”

What it should have done, ChatGPT said, was regularly remind Irwin that it’s a language model without beliefs, feelings or consciousness.

Read more: https://on.wsj.com/3GTxrCS

07/17/2025

Have you created a list of fun things to try this summer? Ok where are you at with that list? So many people focus on the to do list of errands and never get to the good stuff. Start with the cake first! Trust me, the to do list is never finished. 🍰

07/15/2025

How to Think (and Live) in the Middle At our practice, we often hear clients say things like: “I love my family, but they drive me crazy.” “I want to grow, but I’m scared to change.” “I like my job, but I also want something different." Sound familiar? If so, you're not alone. These kinds of thoughts, where two things feel true at once, even if they seem to contradict, are actually a big part of something called dialectics, a core idea in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)....

How to Think (and Live) in the Middle At our practice, we often hear clients say things like: “I love my family, but they drive me crazy.” “I want to grow, but I’m scared to change.” “I like my job, but I also want something different." Sound familiar? If so, you're not alone. These kind...

07/05/2025

It's a beautiful day for a bike ride! Although the ride was tough, it's been a while since I last went out. Getting back into something we used to be good at can be really tough. Starting from the beginning again can be just as hard. A few mindset hacks can help, including: -Letting go of expectations to be as good as we used to be. -Starting small, even just five minutes a day for a week is better than nothing. -Trying to restart in private, without telling everyone about our goals. Sometimes when we share our goals with others, they can make us doubt ourselves. -Finally, trying to reframe restarts. Instead of thinking we've failed, we should view it as a normal part of life and focus on making progress, not achieving perfection.

06/19/2025

Today, we celebrate freedom and unity as our office honors the spirit of Juneteenth! 🎉

06/18/2025

When you break free from the chains of invalidation, you'll unlock the power to trust your intuition! Do you yearn to make decisions with confidence and clarity? This could be the moment to shift your focus from others' expectations to your own inner wisdom. Through therapy, you can reignite your spark and discover your authentic self. Will you take the first step towards embracing your true potential? 💫

06/17/2025

It seems like everything falls apart right before things get better. Remember to lean into patience, difficult life situations are often temporary. Don't quit before your life changes for the better.