Pain is a danger signal generated in the brain. We feel pain to protect us from future tissue damage. The whole function of pain is to alert you to a problem.

How does pain work?

1. Sensory receptors send messages through nerve fibers to the spinal cord, where the sensations are registered

2. These messages then go on to the brain where they are perceived

Some people find they sleep better if they flip around and out their head at the foot of the bed. Why does this work? An Austin sleep specialist explains more.

Plenty of folks who can’t sleep turn to melatonin. Most people think of it as a sleep aid but they generally don’t find it effective for insomnia. An Austin sleep therapist break it down.

Let’s say you’re having trouble sleeping. Do you go to your primary care doctor? A sleep lab? A regular old talk therapist? A cursory Google search for “sleep specialist Austin” returns over 9 million results. Scroll past the sponsored posts and you start seeing providers. Some are doctors at large clinics. Others are therapists in small private practices. There are even apps that promise they can help you sleep better.

In our culture, self-control is generally praised and associated with success. The thinking is that you can’t have too much self-control. Further, deficits in self-control, like substance abuse, binge eating, or financial difficulties, are often what bring people into therapy. So…more self-control is always better, right? Not so fast, acording to a Radically Open DBT therapist in Austin. 

I am very often asked, by clients and therapists alike, to explain the difference between Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RODBT). RODBT spun off of DBT but is actually pretty different from the modality that birthed it.