What is Acceptance Commitment Therapy?

Acceptance Commitment Therapy, or ACT, includes mindfulness activities such as #meditation, breathing exercises, and other techniques that can build up awareness. Click below for a list of helplines and hotlines
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[@SimplicityForGood]

Values change over the span of life due to external changes, such as death in family, getting lucky if you were not, moving to a different culture, or getting stuck and bullied where you grow up… so, at that point the human will feel lost as the values do not work anymore to hold on, therefore one need to take a chance to change ones values! This is really the first step of acceptance for most people when things in life get overwhelmed and impossible to navigate through! Accept that change of your values is a part of your life span just like seasons change and then understand is Your chance to go forward and build New values that won’t be the ones your family and culture installed in you but if you take this chance they will become yours and yours Only! Good luck from 🇸🇪

[@theeeelight]

*Clarification Note: The fact that it's evidence-based, does NOT mean it "Works more often than other therapies." Like all other theories - it's context and person-dependent. Instead, evidence-based means that ACT it's one of the more easily replicated (generalized, structured) intervention methods, and has shown promise in controlled clinical trial environments (with certain diagnoses/client presentations). Common factors theory teaches us that the primary mechanisms of change are 1) the client-therapist relationship, 2) client expectations, and 3) specific "ingredients" of a theory. (Wampold, 2015).

[@mongolmcphee7791]

A good point well made. I noticed that too. Scientific terms do get thrown around very casually these days. Hence everyone on the internet now describing half the people they meet as psychopaths, sociopaths or narcissists, with scant regard for definitions. Greetings from Scotland.

[@brendalg4]

That was my thought too... evidence-based doesn't say anything about how successful it is compared to other therapies

[@JeremyTheApe]

For those who are reading this comment and are struggling... I see you and you're not alone 🧡️ To me the first step is challenging our inner voice versus just accepting everything it says... which takes practice, but I've found is well worth it. After all the most important relationship we will ever have is with ourselves.

[@r011ing_thunder6]

So what am I wearing

[@soulstrong]

Thank you I needed to read this.

[@Seanscichlids]

I'm looking into this now. I am recovering from insomnia, and today I'm supposed to have a first date, but my thoughts were racing last night, and needless to say I didn't sleep. I put too much importance on sleep, and then the worries about the date. The mind truly just wants to help us, but it seems to cause problems at the wrong time.

[@PepeDeezNutz]

How many fingers am I holding up?

[@PepeDeezNutz]

@@Seanscichlids did you hit that?

[@hanavaughan6956]

wow, I love this

[@Nassifeh]

Really meh about the examples given. If you hate your body this will help you change it, but if your family is abusive this will let you put up with it? ACT isn't going to make your body capable of everything you want from it, or make your family treat you with dignity and respect. One of those things you need to learn to work with, because you only get the one body. The other can be replaced with other relationships and traditions that fill the needs that your blood relatives won't.

[@Sigma.Infinity]

I agree. This video doesn't do the ACT approach justice. It is misleading. ACT is far more than this. There are much, much better introductions to it on KZbin.

[@brendalg4]

@@Sigma.Infinity thanks for your comment. I was going to dismiss it as being garbage due to the examples

[@klarity1111]

I had this therapy recommended to me as part of my program for chronic pain. It may help my emotions, but I don't see how it can do anything for severe physical pain.

[@laqueshawilliams398]

I am in a type of exposure therapy currently that is all about chronic pain/fibro and other physical symptoms related to stress and their connection to our emotions and repressed trauma. They do go hand in hand.

[@raulleft1081]

Herbs

[@raulleft1081]

We can heal anything but people are afraid of telling

[@raulleft1081]

If you like read shamanism books and hoxey

[@linnl563]

There are literature and research that shows that physical illness and pain can be largely related to psychological traumas and wounds. For example, 90% of the illnesses are caused by inflammation. And inflammation can be caused by high alert of the body, as in the body is constantly in fight-flight-freeze mode due to stress and anxiety. So this means the body cannot switch back to rest mode, where the body heals itself and the immune system does its job and protecting the body. So when the psychological pains and stains get repaired, the body calms and switches on the parasympathetic system and starts healing. Apologies because I am not a medical person, so I might have wrote something that seems terminologically wrong.

[@cee4049]

Music was too loud and couldn't hear the talking properly. Couldn't finish the video

[@Uncle_Tom]

music was too loud and therefore distracting

[@mscameron22]

Try w the captions my friend🙂

[@senamation]

@@mscameron22 doesn't change that critique on video editing was needed

[@PepeDeezNutz]

WaT?

[@theliterarytarot]

Make your own video

[@karlboll]

Agree, it's so loud it's unwatchable. Can't hear any of the dialogue.

[@Elaine-tk7nx]

Music FAR too loud. Why do they always put music in the background, as if the content isn't engaging enough without it?!! 😢

[@gloriafajardo5219]

I have paranoia or persecutory delusion and anxiety anxiety because of using drugs.. All the people who know been making fun of me and discriminating me.. It cause me psychological problem of thinking about how they treat me.. Need help

[@PsychHub]

Thank you for taking the first step and expressing your struggle. We want you to know you are not alone in how you feel. We hope you will check out the links to the resources in the description box for where to learn more and where to get treatment and support.

[@whenlarryhadababy9226]

Seems like a very therapeutic way to say deal with it

[@AnonymousCowardly]

"Shit happens, life goes on", but said by someone with a degree.

[@Sigma.Infinity]

This video is WAY too simplistic. ACT is far more than this, deeper and more profound.

[@GujuNilesh]

Care to elaborate for the rest of us?

[@gentlestormtoo]

I wish the music was not so loud so I could hear what was being said.