EMIN ™
Advanced Mental Health Education
Anxiety/Depression, Self-Harm, Eating Disorders, Anorexia, BPD, Bipolar, c-PTSD | Aloneness & Emptiness | Fragmented Self & Identity
 Accreditation Council of Continued Medical Education |
Ladder Out of Emotional Hell:
1. Borderline & Emotion Dysregulation (Calming The Chaos)("2022-01-22: added Affect Regulation Theory")
1.a Fear of Being Alone
1.b Chronic Emptiness
1.c Numb/Detached (Dissociation)
1.d Paranoia/Hallucinations, Voices
1.b Chronic Emptiness
1.c Numb/Detached (Dissociation)
1.d Paranoia/Hallucinations, Voices
2. Unstable Self-Image or Sense of Self
3. Complex Trauma / c-PTSD / Structural Dissociation (Anxiety, Shame, Humiliation, Anger) [2, 14]
4. Is BPD The Same As c-PTSD / Complex Trauma?
7. The Neurobiology of BPD (Prefrontal/Orbitofrontal Cortex, Amygdala) (2022-03-12)
Healing Through Emotion
Emotional/Interpersonal Neurobiology has discovered that we share 7 primitive emotional systems with animals that allow us to feel Connectedness, Pleasure, Play, Assertiveness and that can (self- or externally) generate feelings of (Self-)Care and Safety but due to circumstances (complex & developmental trauma/c-PTSD, personality disorders) these emotion systems can become disorganized and overwhelming.
This causes us to rely on primitive defenses like idealization, anger, dissociation/numbing, devaluation, clinging, addictions, eating disorders while developing anxiety and low self-esteem because you lack proper representations of the world due to impaired "mentalizing" or "mindsight", which means interpreting other people's needs, desires, feelings, beliefs, goals, purposes and reasons behind their actions (in simple terms, "making sense of eachother and ourselves) (attachment theory, self-other objects, relations theory).
"When we differentiate and link aspects of a complex system, we enable the natural self-organization of that system to move toward harmony. When either differentiation or linkage are hampered, the result is an impediment to self-organization in the form of chaos, rigidity, or both." - Daniel J. Siegel
Through integrating Emotional Neuroscience, researchers are now discovering that our primitive emotional systems are the key to balancing emotional instability and healing complex & developmental trauma (c-PTSD, BPD, Bipolar etc). This process of integration starts with us becoming aware and choosing to focus our energy and attention and becoming internal generators of the positive emotions like our Value, Self-Worth, Assertiveness, Motivation, Care and Safety systems through training them like muscles which in parallel will downregulate the negative and even traumatic emotions, this, together with our intentional focused attention and awareness training we are able to organize and create Fail-Safe brain networks (Panksepp, 2012, 2018. Sheldon, 2022).
This causes us to rely on primitive defenses like idealization, anger, dissociation/numbing, devaluation, clinging, addictions, eating disorders while developing anxiety and low self-esteem because you lack proper representations of the world due to impaired "mentalizing" or "mindsight", which means interpreting other people's needs, desires, feelings, beliefs, goals, purposes and reasons behind their actions (in simple terms, "making sense of eachother and ourselves) (attachment theory, self-other objects, relations theory).
"In addition to arriving at emotions, therapists also need to help clients leave certain painful emotions by activating new adaptive emotions that help change the old emotions. Clients need to consolidate their experiential change in new narratives consisting of new views of self and world (Greenberg, 2011).
This process of accepting emotion and changing emotion with emotion as well as creating new narratives involves understanding different types of emotions and principles of emotional change. The best way to change an emotion is with an opposing emotion." - Leslie S. Greenberg
This process of accepting emotion and changing emotion with emotion as well as creating new narratives involves understanding different types of emotions and principles of emotional change. The best way to change an emotion is with an opposing emotion." - Leslie S. Greenberg