What Brain Exercises Can Help People with Personality Disorders? (0:52)
People with personality disorders often struggle with social experiences and understanding their emotions. In this video, HealthMaker Gregory Bayer, PhD describes exercises that can help this population cope.
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A lot of times folks who are struggling with personality disorder have a dysregulation of social relations and they also have a dysregulation with regard to their control of their own emotions, certain triggering events and things of this nature. In fact one of the things the we do on our exercises is we actually train several things which are important to personal regulation, also social regulation, a simple one being just the recognition of emotions and others through an understanding of facial expression, and non verbal body posture, so you can actually train better recognition and better acuity of those signs, recognition accuracy of those signs, and that can be very, very helpful to somebody who's struggling with personality disorder to understand their social environment more accurately, and also to work on self regulation in terms of their own emotional experience.
Psychologist Gregory Bayer, PhD, CEO of Brain Resource, Inc., talks about the importance of brain health for overall health and how to improve your brain fitness.
