What Drives Anxiety Symptoms? Anxiety is a reaction to events in the environment around us. It is a word that’s used to describe the physical and emotional feelings of worry and fear and a general uneasiness that happen in some situations. The feelings are the embodiment of the flight / flight / freeze response […]
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Symptoms Of Depression
What Are The Symptoms Of Depression The symptoms of depression are varied and are spread across a spectrum that takes in emotional, physical and social symptoms. People are different by their very nature and they exhibit symptoms of depression to differing degrees. This severity of symptoms combined with the range of symptoms of depression makes the […]
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Let me describe two mechanisms that can lead to a panic attack. First let’s describe a panic attack. What Are Panic Attacks? Put simply, panic attacks are the severe end of the anxiety scale. It’s a time when you suffer severe anxiety symptoms just by being in a place, doing something or sometimes just thinking […]
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What Sorts of Depression Symptoms Are There? Depression is a blanket term that describes an overall emotional state and the depression symptoms appear different in different people. Each person has their own set of symptoms and the severity of each one is also different for each person. For example some people exhibit a noticeable lack of self […]
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What Sorts of Signs of Depression are we Looking for? Signs of depression fall in to three main categories: Personal emotional state signs Personal physical signs Social signs It’s useful to break it up like this because it allows us to realise that there are personal issues being faced that are both emotional and physical. […]
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Why would you need a depression test? A depression test is as you would expect a test to see if you have depression. I know there are depression tests on the net and they may give a result that is reasonable. But this is where I have a real problem with a depression test. There […]
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I had a bit of a thing happen this morning. Like most other people I want to be happy but sometimes it’s not easy. “I want to be happy” is one of those things that sounds so simple but when it comes to doing it consistently something always appears to get in the way. That […]
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Perfectionism and not wanting to get things wrong are some of the biggest mental hurdles that we have to jump in order to get started on something. Interestingly, of the people that I know the ones that appear to do best are the ones who just get on and do something. Anything that they need […]
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I typed Not Successful in to Google. I was hoping for something positive. Guess what I got? 20 Reasons Why You Are Still Not Successful 7 Reasons You Won’t Ever Be Successful – Forbes 7 Reasons You’re Not as Successful as You Could Be 13 Reasons You’re Not As Successful As You Should Be by […]
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This is a bit of a story about myself and overcoming the fear of failure. I know it’s not good form to be a therapist and to admit to not being perfect but in my case it’s true. Not being perfect is one of the things that I do very well. I help others daily […]
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