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Depression
Mindfulness: The top 5 best mindfulness apps
Mindfulness has been trendy for a while, but it’s a bit more than just a fad! The NHS have approved its use with a variety of mental health difficulties. Most often prescribed for use with recurrent depression, frequently cited as helpful with anxiety, some studies show it helps with managing chronic pain; so if these […]
- Depression
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Bereavement, Grief, Mourning and Loss
So I went on a training day about bereavement and loss, because many of the people I treat have experienced one of these, and for some of them it is this loss which stops them from moving forward. I felt I needed the training because I haven’t gone through that much loss myself and I […]
- CBT
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Asking Powerful Questions
Asking the right thing, at the right time, and listening to that answer is one of the most important skills any of us can ever learn. But it’s an art, not a science so here I’ve tried to look at how we can ask better questions which will in turn help therapists (and anyone trying […]
- Anxiety
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – what is it and how to treat it
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? PTSD is when, following a traumatic incident, individuals experience distressing symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares and intrusive thoughts about the incident. This can mean that they re-experience the event, they might avoid any memories of the event or even small triggers which bring on memories of the event […]
- CBT
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Why Depression Happens
In this article I’d like to explain a way of looking at and understanding depression which has just been published and which I feel pulls together a lot of what we know about depression from the fields of genetics, neurochemistry, neuroscience, behavioural psychology and social psychology. I think that, if you can understand where depression […]
- Depression
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Motivation Tips
This is one of the most common difficulties reported by clients with depression. We all know how it feels too, there can be so many things to do, and what there is to do just doesn’t appeal to us. Even worse, what there is can be so overwhelming, we don’t even know where to start […]