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 …

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. Unfortunately, we don’t just wake up one morning with a disability and we automatically 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 can also suffer the same effects.

People with a disability are three or four times more likely to suffer from depression than their counter-parts. Depression is a persistent sense of sadness, accompanied by a sense of hopelessness …

For a condition that affects around a million people of all ages, it is still disappointing there is little emotional support for people who live 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 …

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

I was researching Cerebral Palsy on the internet last night and came across a Wikipedia note outlining the part of my brain that became damaged as a result of my stroke, called the Cerebrum …

I sometimes have feelings of despondency that come from nowhere. If this is something you struggle with too, perhaps you could try analysing your feelings.

Below are suggestions for emotional, mental and spiritual healing.

• Recognise how you feel around your despondency (emotional, mental and spiritual pain);

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

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