Overcoming Distress & Burnout: The Threat, Drive and Soothe Systems

For people who are prone to Distress, the soothe system is often underdeveloped and that means that people are either stuck in a state of Threat or in a state of Drive. That leads to stress and BURNOUT. understand the threat drive soothe systems. There's not much scope to recover or de-escalate Distress without a capacity to Soothe. We get into ways to activate your Soothe system to better manage emotional Distress. That will need some self compassion. Really. Prevent burnout! how to prevent burnout. how to recover from burnout. We talk about how the Threat/Drive/Soothe systems relate, when they are useful and how that fits into a Schema Mode conceptualisation. We discuss how the Distress tolerance is improved by utilisation of the soothe system. This model was derived by Paul Gilbert as part of Compassion-Focussed Therapy. Please comment any questions or queries! Jess O'Garr - Clinical Psychologist Dr Al Griskaitis - Psychiatrist www.thePSYCHcollective.com #skillsbeforepills #schematherapy #windowoftolerance #distress #psychology #DBT #psychologicaldistress Website: https://www.thepsychcollective.com Free resources: https://www.thepsychcollective.com/re... Follow us on Facebook:   / thepsychcollective   YouTube:    / thepsychcollective   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepsychcol... LinkedIn:   / the-psych-collective   Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Al-Gris... Medium:   / al.griskaitis   Substack: https://algriskaitis.substack.com/