Having recently read yet another report which highlights the dangers of taking certain medication which is being prescribed by some doctors to help patients cope with their anxiety, I feel compelled to write about the greater benefits of undertaking Cognitive Behavioural Therapy instead.
Are you aware that 5-year old children are prescribed anti-depressants! Alarm bells are ringing! There has been a rather worrying increase in the number of children and adolescents taking anti-depressants. Do we really believe that our failure to address toxic loneliness, unhappiness, depression and isolation in our children and young people (especially during this past 15 months) can be solved…
Are you having problems in your relationships with members of your family, or with friends, within your relationship as a couple, or with working relationships? Do you want to explore the patterns of behaviour and communication issues which contribute to those problems that arise within your relationships with other people? If so, Transactional Analysis may work extremely well for you,…
There is, currently, a mental health crisis among young people in the UK – with or without the additional impact of COVID-19. Given that the majority of mental health problems develop by the age of 24, university students are already a group at high risk of having mental health problems. British universities are experiencing a surge in student anxiety, mental…
Are you one of those people, under 25 years old, who have been suffering from increased stress, anxiety and depression under the COVID-19 restrictions? It transpires that young people have suffered more with mental health issues over the last few months than any other age group, according to a far-reaching study that has scrutinised the effects of the pandemic on…
COVID-19 anxiety and isolation stress is driving more and more people to drink alcohol at dangerous levels! You need to be aware that this is a very real problem right now. Are you one of those people affected? Drinking increasing amounts of alcohol since the initial lockdown in March, 2020, has led to some people adopting dangerous habits that risk…
Finally, after 15 weeks in lock-down, people were allowed to go to the hairdressing salons and barber shops, to the pub and to restaurants again last Saturday, 4 July. This felt like a massive relief and a return to freedom and some kind of ‘normality’ again. However, we must not forget that, for many people who have been going without…
Are you cutting or burning yourself, or injuring yourself in any way, in an attempt to deal with emotional distress or emotional pain- simply because you currently have no other way of coping? If so, I can help you, because I understand the main reasons why people take this course of action – you take away your emotional pain by…
Well, we have now said ‘Goodbye’ to 2018 and we begin 2019. For some of us, this is a prospect filled with hope and ambition, whereas, for others, it can be the start of another year of hopelessness and despair! If you are feeling sad, depressed, lonely, hopeless, without any sense of direction, please do not suffer like this unnecessarily,…
Christmas is a happy time for many people, but, for others, it simply heightens their sadness. For anyone who has recently lost a loved one, anyone who is going through a divorce or a relationship break-up, Christmas can be the loneliest of times – even when you are in a room full of people. Depression and sadness are feelings which…