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The challenge of Change
Why our brains are hardwired to reject change and what we can do to help ourselves adapt more easily.
Can hypnotherapy make you like vegetables?
eating issues often start in childhood and sometimes it seems impossible to change a habit, because part of your brain may be overruling your intellectual choice.
Positive Thinking, Positive Doing
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How health anxiety affects the body
Health anxiety is a form of anxiety where worrying, obsessing about health problems and fixating on sensations in the body manifests in a variety of physical symptoms which, in turn, creates anxiety that fuels the problem. However, anxiety in general does affect the body, so for those with health anxiety, these things become a particular concern.
Is Health Anxiety OCD?
Author & Video - Emma Triplett Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay Worrying about health and/or death are arguably amongst of the most common symptoms of anxiety but for some health becomes the sole focus of their anxiety and is given the term health anxiety....
How to Help Someone with OCD
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can be hard to ignore if you’re living with someone who has it. The temptation is to buy into the OCD and either join the person helping out with their obsession by buying wet-wipes for the person with a germ OCD for example, or to try and stop them carrying out their habits or rituals, encourage them to resist the compulsion. What should you do for the best?
Is Ecotherapy seasonal?
Ecotherapy is a year round therapy, even in the depths of the British winter there are many benefits to getting outside and being active.
What’s the point of getting out into nature?
Doctors can advise exercise as a remedy for some mental illness, Mind.org.uk has completed a five year study into the benefits of ecotherapy, but why is exercise and nature so beneficial?
Can Hypnotherapy help anxiety?
Can hypnotherapy actually help anxiety. A review of scientific studies suggests that hypnosis can help, but hypnosis is a tool that must be used alongside proven therapeutic techniques for anxiety to have any long term benefits.
Why is anxiety on the rise?
One in four people, that’s a quarter of us, will at some time experience mental health problems during their life. It’s an astounding statistic from the World Health Organisation and according to a report by Mind there has been an increase from 15.5 per cent in 1993 to 26 per cent of adults reported having ever been diagnosed with at least one mental health problem in 2014. Many mental health problems including OCD, self-harm, eating disorders, insomnia and many physical problems are anxiety related, so why is anxiety increasing so rapidly.
Are Anxiety and Depression the same?
At first glance anxiety and depression are very similar, they feel different; anxiety being fearful and worried whilst depression is feeling miserable, but you can have both at the same time. They are in fact interestingly similar and in this article we going to have a look at some of the similarities and differences both in the way they develop and in the way they are cured.
When Anxiety Strikes
This is the third instalment of my mini series on anxiety in which I’m going to give you some top tips for dealing with anxiety when it strikes, but also ultimate strategies to reduce the positive feedback loop that’s creating the anxiety described in the last article ‘Where does anxiety come from?’
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