Month: August 2010

For any therapy to work successfully, it is important we match the issue to the therapy.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Can help with:

Anxiety; Mild or moderate depression; eating disorders; shyness and lack of confidence; OCD; Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD); Assertiveness/bullying; Relationships problems;

My blog today concentrates on the last three forms of therapy. I have benefited to some degree, from a combination of both counselling and psychology.

Psychiatry

A psychiatrist deals with mental health problems. After an initial consultation they may refer patients back to a psychologist, counsellor or psychotherapist for ‘talking therapy.’ It is very rare that a psychiatrist …

It’s important for anyone who needs help, to think about what they’re dealing with and look into the various types of therapy that is beneficial for them, with their particular situation.

Below are just some of the different types of therapies:

Counselling

Anyone who chooses the counselling route will be expected to look and talk about problems they face on a daily basis. A counsellor will work through problems, such as separation, bereavement, post-natal depression and will look at conflicts or a particular crisis;

Dealing with cerebral palsy means we get to deal with other problems too. We don’t just wake up one morning with a disability and we automatically know how to cope.

Depression and anxiety are both common effects of cerebral palsy, for those coping with the condition. These conditions are not necessarily unique to cerebral palsy sufferers, people with other conditions …

For a condition that affects around a million people of all ages, it is disappointing there is little emotional support who deal with cerebral palsy.

As a child growing up in the 60’s, although there was little support in the community, apart from the mandatory hospital check ups that were available on the NHS, I have had to find my own way as an adult …

I never really understood what I was dealing with as a child around my physical problems, what my symptoms meant or what they were. Now 47 years on and I still don’t know everything I need to know.

I was researching cerebral palsy and came across a Wikipedia note outlining the part of my brain that is damaged as a result of my stroke, called the Cerebrum (although the disorder is likely to involve connections …

Feelings of despondency can happen at any time, no matter how emotionally strong we are.

Below are suggestions for emotional, mental and spiritual healing of despondency:

• Recognise how you feel emotionally, mentally and spiritually;
• Take time out to reflect;

For our physical health to work at optimum level, our emotional health needs to do the same. It is impossible to have one without the other.

But for us to improve our emotional health, we first need to recognise our emotions, and what they mean: we need to understand them. Once we sort out the causes of our emotions, like stress and anxiety …