Category: Mental Health

Do you have an addiction?   When talking about drugs, this is referring to non-prescribed and prescribed medications. There are a number of aspects to why you’re taking drugs:   Designed for pleasure Your mind has a section, which is designed for pleasure; in terms of society, we’re always looking…

Self Compassion You may be suffering from low self-compassion and not actually know it. I’ll define self-compassion: this is when you treat yourself with kindness during difficult times. If you’re not used to other’s being kind to you and or your always tough on yourself, you may struggle to be…

There will be a number of times when you’ve spoken to your partner where you feel like you’re not being heard and you feel as though your needs and wants are not being heard. Relationships can be joyous and a great source of happiness however when communication breaks down in…

Do you get angry over small issues? When you get angry at the smallest thing that happens, this is because it’s a buildup on anger. There are going to be situations in your past where you didn’t deal with your anger at the time which resulted in it building up…

Feeling overwhelmed? Stress becoming a problem? Stress can feel very overbearing and it can feel like you can’t do anything about stress. It can be overbearing when you focus and think about all the worries that you have i.e. bills to pay, family problems, feeling alone, not enjoying work etc…

There’s never one answer that fits this question, as you are an individual so is what limits you, you may find the answer you get isn’t the same for someone else, however you can pre-empt certain things which can stop you in making the changes you want. Familiarity  I need…

To begin with, we need to understand what trauma is: Trauma can be looked at as being a situation or experience which is stressful, scary and or distressing. On occasions, it can be that you have experienced trauma but not realised it, that the symptoms of trauma come up and…

Cognitive distortions refer to ways of thinking that can be irrational however to you they feel like they’re rational and because of this, these distortions can cause issues. These are beliefs you hold about several different things such as how the world works, how people behave – we’ll run through…