Emotional dysregulation and cognitive distortions can hijack your decision-making, making it essential to explore effective strategies for better choices. In this episode, we dive into how to use simple data checks, gut checks, and pattern interrupts to stabilize your choices when your brain’s on tilt.
Join us for a candid mental health discussion filled with practical coping skills and relationship tools. As we tackle emotional dysregulation in challenging situations, we’ll also examine cognitive distortions such as all-or-nothing thinking, mind-reading, and catastrophizing. You’ll learn how to effectively use data checks and gut checks in sequence, utilize pattern interrupts during heated conversations, and identify your unique relationship triggers and early warning signs.
Our focus will be on building decision guardrails, which include labeling your emotions, taking timely time-outs, employing third-party reflections, and prioritizing sleep and rest. Perfect for anyone seeking to build resilience amidst the chaos of daily life and enhance their emotional well-being.

Drop your messiest decision on our Discord "The Struggle Bus"—we’ll sanity-check your options and help you set guardrails. (link below)

Beat The Mental Health Out Of It! is a candid mental health podcast with lived experience—schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia spectrum psychosis, BPD, PTSD, trauma recovery, coping skills, and dark humor that fights stigma.

Hosted by Nicholas Wichman (“The DEFECTIVE Schizoaffective”) with frequent co-host Tony Medeiros, ("IndyPocket"), we talk serious mental illness, psych wards, religious trauma, bad therapy, meds, disability, and messy real-world coping.

New episodes drop every other Monday at 6am ET.

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