Mental Health
13/11/2021
Sleep Cycles and Dreaming What happens when we close our eyes and begin to drift off to sleep? Over the course of the night, […]
20/05/2021
Anger is a powerful emotion. It is called a positive emotion because it draws us towards the subject of the emotion rather than away from […]
15/03/2021
Drug Therapy or Psychotherapy for Depression? There has been strong evidence for over 20 years that the right psychotherapy can be superior to […]
14/01/2021
What is Self Harm? Self harm is often misunderstood and is often a taboo subject – done in private and kept hidden. However self harm […]
17/11/2020
What is Emotional Resilience? You might think of emotional resilience as the ability to bounce back after a setback. Or the ability to keep on […]
10/10/2020
When you think of depression, do you think of someone being shut down, withdrawn, flat? That can be the appearance but in fact depressed people […]
14/03/2020
Coping with Covid-19 is about finding new ways of getting our emotional needs met despite the disruption to our lives caused by the pandemic. Security, […]
15/02/2020
What is OCD? OCD is a condition where a person experiences powerful, intrusive and distressing thoughts or images, usually connected with an imagined disastrous event […]
17/01/2020
There is a simple and highly effective technique for controlling powerful emotions like anxiety and anger. You have probably heard of the “fight-or-flight” response (activation […]
09/01/2020
Do you suffer from boredom /feel you are stuck in a rut? Same old routine day in day out – same rituals each day at […]
11/12/2019
Love it or dread it – isn’t it a shame that Christmas season can be such a stressful time for so many people – obligations, […]
25/11/2019
When people suffer from panic attacks, phobias or post-traumatic stress, it is because the brain’s emotional alarm system has gone into overdrive. The human species […]