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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

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Hi everyone. I'm Morwen and I've been suffering from chronic pain for 8 years now. I've tried so many things to deal with my pain that it's gotten frustrating to the point of wanting to give up trying to find help.

I recently got back into therapy and my new therapist recommended that I start what's called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or ACT. It's designed to help people restructure the way they think about things that they can't change. He said this is especially helpful for people who have chronic conditions and chronic pain.

I've only just started the therapy but I've already started to notice some differences, so I wanted to share it with everyone to try to help my fellow chronic pain sufferers. So I'll share some of the exercises that I've been given in therapy and some great resources that I've found as well.

I'll divide this into several posts so that it doesn't turn into one overwhelming one. I'll include some resources and explain the therapy exercises that I've done so far in the following posts.
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This week we talked a lot about how we're going to deal with my surgery interrupting therapy sessions. He's going to try to get approval to do a couple of home visit sessions with me, but doesn't think his supervisor will allow it. (The therapist I see is an intern and so has to follow more rules than if he were in private practice). If not he is going to leave homework assignments for Natalie to pick up from the clinic for me over the next couple of weeks.

I'm really excited about starting a sort of Group ACT here on the CP boards. I really hope that people get a lot out of it, and I'd like to leave it open indefinitely so that even after each week's assignment people who are new can still post and get support from people who are going through the program with us.

Does anyone have any ideas for how I could keep the description of ACT and the list of resources from this topic readily available to people whole we start focusing more on the weekly assignment posts?
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This week we talked a lot about how we're going to deal with my surgery interrupting therapy sessions. He's going to try to get approval to do a couple of home visit sessions with me, but doesn't think his supervisor will allow it. (The therapist I see is an intern and so has to follow more rules than if he were in private practice). If not he is going to leave homework assignments for Natalie to pick up from the clinic for me over the next couple of weeks.

I'm really excited about starting a sort of Group ACT here on the CP boards. I really hope that people get a lot out of it, and I'd like to leave it open indefinitely so that even after each week's assignment people who are new can still post and get support from people who are going through the program with us.

Does anyone have any ideas for how I could keep the description of ACT and the list of resources from this topic readily available to people whole we start focusing more on the weekly assignment posts?
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This week we talked a lot about how we're going to deal with my surgery interrupting therapy sessions. He's going to try to get approval to do a couple of home visit sessions with me, but doesn't think his supervisor will allow it. (The therapist I see is an intern and so has to follow more rules than if he were in private practice). If not he is going to leave homework assignments for Natalie to pick up from the clinic for me over the next couple of weeks.

I'm really excited about starting a sort of Group ACT here on the CP boards. I really hope that people get a lot out of it, and I'd like to leave it open indefinitely so that even after each week's assignment people who are new can still post and get support from people who are going through the program with us.

Does anyone have any ideas for how I could keep the description of ACT and the list of resources from this topic readily available to people whole we start focusing more on the weekly assignment posts?
deleted_user
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This week we talked a lot about how we're going to deal with my surgery interrupting therapy sessions. He's going to try to get approval to do a couple of home visit sessions with me, but doesn't think his supervisor will allow it. (The therapist I see is an intern and so has to follow more rules than if he were in private practice). If not he is going to leave homework assignments for Natalie to pick up from the clinic for me over the next couple of weeks.

I'm really excited about starting a sort of Group ACT here on the CP boards. I really hope that people get a lot out of it, and I'd like to leave it open indefinitely so that even after each week's assignment people who are new can still post and get support from people who are going through the program with us.

Does anyone have any ideas for how I could keep the description of ACT and the list of resources from this topic readily available to people whole we start focusing more on the weekly assignment posts?
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This week we talked a lot about how we're going to deal with my surgery interrupting therapy sessions. He's going to try to get approval to do a couple of home visit sessions with me, but doesn't think his supervisor will allow it. (The therapist I see is an intern and so has to follow more rules than if he were in private practice). If not he is going to leave homework assignments for Natalie to pick up from the clinic for me over the next couple of weeks.

I'm really excited about starting a sort of Group ACT here on the CP boards. I really hope that people get a lot out of it, and I'd like to leave it open indefinitely so that even after each week's assignment people who are new can still post and get support from people who are going through the program with us.

Does anyone have any ideas for how I could keep the description of ACT and the list of resources from this topic readily available to people whole we start focusing more on the weekly assignment posts?
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I posted part 2 and 3 on the ACT board for while I'm out with surgery.

Anyone who is interested may join, simply PM me for a link.
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bumpitty bump!