The Ranch opens Mill House, a 14-bed southern mansion for women with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse that provides intensive education and training in dialectical behavior therapy.
Ranch primary therapist Lauren Herman is driven to discover the whys behind human behavior. Her integrated approach involves cognitive behavioral therapy, experiential therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
Through the teachings of Christine Bates, MA, therapist at The Ranch, clients discover that they are not alone, that the puzzling things their minds do are universal.
Receiving the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) can come as a relief – finally knowing what is wrong and that there may be some solutions. But even after diagnosis, many attendant conflicts remain. There are few medications that work for BPD, and certainly no “magic bullet.” The disorder is known to be so complicated […]
Borderline personality disorder is a mental illness that is characterized by the inability to control strong negative feelings or impulses that often result in destruction of, or interference with, interpersonal relationships. People with borderline personality disorder lack the ability to let things roll off their backs and often experience unwarranted paranoia and jealousy. People on […]
About thirty years ago a professor at the University of Washington was working with suicidal women, many of whom were borderline personalities. This group is notoriously difficult to treat. They usually have not just one but a large number of problems, such as self-injury behaviors, substance abuse and eating disorders, that “travel” with their personality […]
Treating eating disorders can be very challenging. Especially among those with anorexia, there is a high relapse rate, because patients often have a very difficult time applying what they have learned in treatment when they re-enter normal life.
At the heart of many who struggle with eating disorders is a distorted vision of themselves. Instead of seeing reality, these individuals have an intense dissatisfaction with their physical self when compared to others, and this leads to a distortion of their body image.
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