Dealing With the Schema of Insufficient Self-Control

  How’s your self-control? Do you find yourself quickly abandoning plans you take on? Do you have difficulty tolerating frustration? For Jeffrey Young, insufficient self-control could be due to how you relate to the boundaries you impose on yourself. More specifically, Young refers to difficulties related to goal setting and the ability to self-reinforce. These are some of the aspects that intervention via schema therapy tries to promote. However, what’s a schema? “The goal of schema therapy is a process of self-discovery and transformation in which patients learn to identify and deal with dysfunctional patterns that are affecting their lives.”…