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There are more people on capacity benefits due to mental health problems than the total number of unemployed people on job seekers allowance. By 2030 depression will be the world’s most common illness according to the World Health Organisation.
As evidence suggests that Cognitive Behavioural ... Views: 1080
Resolving your eating disorder means that potentially you will be without a way a coping with difficult and challenging experiences. It is therefore important that you develop alternative coping strategies in parallel with working to resolve your eating disorder. This will feel difficult for a ... Views: 1995
1. The Function Of An Eating Disorder - The Cinema Analogy
An eating disorder is a kind of coping strategy, it provides a way of dealing with the difficult things that life throws at you by blocking out, distracting or shielding you to some extend from the distressing thoughts and feelings ... Views: 1770
Before you start your CBT Counselling
treatment programme there are a number of things you can do to maximise your chances of success.
1. Prioritising yourself and your recovery
For CBT Counselling to enable you to overcome your eating disorder you need to be a keen and active participant ... Views: 1533
Media A Dirty Truth...
There are approx 6,692,030,277 of population breathing in this world, means same numbers of brains are working days and nights, if I am not wrong each brain works differently. Let suppose half of population thinks constructive and another half thinks against.
Due to ... Views: 881
During the many years I’ve worked with families and kids, I’ve met a lot of dads who are walking around with broken hearts. They are men who did the best they knew how to do, within their marriages, as fathers and spouses, and are now divorced.
Everyone gets married with the highest hopes, and ... Views: 4507
An abundance of research in the past 10 years has shown repeatedly that involved fathers play a vital role in the well being of their children. Studies have confirmed that fathers have a distinct, necessary and irreplaceable role to play in child development. Fathers bring a quality to ... Views: 1739
Try and remember some of the first movies you saw as a child. What images come to mind? For many baby boomers, it might be something from Walt Disney, or perhaps the Hardy Boys. One of mine is the scene from Bambi where he is at the edge of the forest waiting for his mother who, as you ... Views: 736
What Parents Say to Kids
Despite working with divorcing families for quite some time now, I’m still amazed at some of the stories I hear.
Dad and the kids just returned from a week and half visit to grandma and grandpa. A great time was had by all. While the three of them were ... Views: 793
Last night a friend and I were talking about some challenges in his life and I remembered a line from a poem by Robert Bly:
The albatross that lands on the mast began flying a thousand years ago.
A long time ago, back when we were pure positive energy, we didn’t doubt for a minute that ... Views: 936
Sometimes the "incompletes" in our lives can add up and we can start to feel overwhelmed. There are big incompletes -- our long-held dreams, our unpursued passions -- and then there are the little incompletes -- the stuff we see every day that niggles at us, the "to-dos," the lists of tasks we ... Views: 900
The Reticular Activating System (RAS for short) is a tiny part of the brain with a big and important job. It controls consciousness and acts as a filter. At any given moment you have approximately 2 million bits of sensory information available to you. You're only capable of absorbing about 150 ... Views: 880
Creativity – that oneness with our creative muse - is a great feeling.
It allows us to feel free and to be productive.
But how do we get that creative feeling going?
And if we have it going – how can we increase its productivity?
Creativity is often written and spoken about as coming ... Views: 1015
All In Your Mind
Through the experience of living our life, we pick up many misconceptions about what life is and what it means to have a life experience. In this series of articles I will share with you what I believe and what I know beyond belief about what life is and isn’t and what the ... Views: 1221
There are times in life when we get overwhelmed by our emotions – anger, hurt, sadness, shame, guilt, rage, desperation, terror. They seem to be so powerful and overwhelming that they control us instead of the other way around. They monopolize all our thoughts and energies, not allowing us to ... Views: 1688
Shame plays an important role in developing eating disorders because shame is a controlling device. Basically all people with anorexia or bulimia can recall being shamed or ashamed several times before their disorder began.
Shame is complex. It extends from small things like parents or ... Views: 1331
If you want to develop a vibrant personality, is an important aspect of attractiveness and the most important would be quality called inner charisma or charm. Charm is the personality that comes from inside. This is usually known as 'Personal Attractiveness' and what the film makers and big ... Views: 4522
Why do people fall in love? Why do we become attracted to certain people and not others?
Why do we sometimes fall in love at the first sight?
What is love all about??
Before studying psychology i used to think of love as something supernatural, unpredictable and that follows no rules. Later ... Views: 1676
SUPEREGO AND DIVERSITY
Sigmund Freud discovered the superego as a psychological structure juxtaposed to the ego, but at the same time
faced this. The father of psychoanalysis died in 1939. It's been 70 years. At this point
there are who ask: "About the superego ... what is fantasy and what ... Views: 2849
Ever wondered why things that used to be very interesting seem boring now?
Do you remember the excitement you felt the first time you started using a computer or browsing the internet?
Why do you feel bored now even though you are doing the things that used to make you excited?
The answer ... Views: 2596
Authors: Gary Small, M.D, & Gigi Vorgan
Publishers: William Morrow (An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
ISBN: 978-0-06-180378-9
Dr. Gary Small is a psychiatrist who is the director of the UCLA Memory and Aging Center at the university's Semel Institute for Neurosciences & Human ... Views: 1624
SHYNESS AND LURES
Lure is a word often used in hunting and fishing; it refers to
anything that attracts "with some fallacy" .
It happens that the timid move in a world of lures or signals that trigger his
social anxiety. The social fear is neither continuous, nor appears in all ... Views: 1660
A Boca Raton psychiatrist provides different mental health services than a psychologist.
There are many different options for individuals seeking the services of a mental health professional. People feeling depressed, anxious, or simply not themselves may call upon the services of a ... Views: 643
If you were to gather up the day's news you would invariably come to the conclusion that the world needs saving, right? Well, I expect it will need saving tomorrow, too. And in the meantime, I am going to reflect on what it means to "do something" in the face of great suffering.
Yes, the ... Views: 955
POWER TRAITS
There is power in the money and the political class. In this article we travel to that part hidden
and unspeakable of power that is part of power and that largely determines its performance.
1 –A MALE ROLE
There are people who by birth are destined to be in the power, ... Views: 3141
The temple was crowded; the Indian stick dance about to begin. I stood chatting with a meditation teacher, formerly an engineer. His own practice, he complained, was heavily burdened by a wandering mind.
He wasn’t alone here. The same complaint echoes down through the centuries. “Restless ... Views: 931
The world of self help, personal development, and self improvement is often challenged by people as it relates to psychology and psychiatry especially when it comes to depression. Some feel the boundaries of the various self help teachings stop short of encompassing individuals who suffer from ... Views: 3451
Breastfeeding is wonderful way to nourish and bond with your baby, but it is not always as easy as it seems. One issue that many mothers face at some point or another is a change in milk supply. This can be a scary time, but there are many options available for mothers in need of help.
If you ... Views: 659
Before you start reading this article, I'd like you to sit quietly for a few seconds. Take in a full breath, let it fill your lungs, and then release it slowly. Repeat this simple breathing exercise and include the words from my favorite meditation:
Breathing in, I calm my body.
Breathing ... Views: 929
SAFETY DISTANCE
When a stranger comes to us or the syndrome of the elevator
THE ELEVATOR
One day we go into an elevator with other people who we do not know. The limited space
forces us to tolerate the physical contact and we are uncomfortable. A person turns
to avoid a face to face, ... Views: 2643
Life for a child with ADHD can be frustrating and difficult, as you know if you are the parent of such a child. You want to help your child as much as you can. There is plenty you can do to help your child, and the key to doing that is to become educated on the topic. You can help make life ... Views: 746
FROM DREAMS TO MAGIC
The dreams have been a great importance in the discovery and development
of founding myths of the pre-monotheistic religions.
FROM THE SIMPLE TO THE COMPLEX
In some biblical texts 2,500 years old and in modern psychology
we can find materials that will lead us to ... Views: 1879
If you think about this, you will realize that each of us lives in some group environment - family, school, workplace and other organized group activities. This is the environment in which we have grown and have evolved as human beings.
Groups help people learn about themselves and improve ... Views: 796
THE TIMID ON THE S. XXI
The Latin root of the word timid means "be afraid".
The people have used this word to
designate the timid because they are presented in society as people fearful.
The timid do not sell well to himself, but at short distance they earn much and may be dazzled
by ... Views: 2268
"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." ~Thomas Edison
There is a field of research that studies how scientists study things. And by scientists, I mean anyone who acquires knowledge by forming a hypothesis—essentially a belief about what they expect to see—and then tries ... Views: 1136
People often ask me about different side effects of bulimia: about short term, long term and the most dangerous ones. This article is about short term effects which appear soon after bulimia begins.
People are also interested if the short term effects are 100% reversible or not. Well, ... Views: 7483
Bulimia and weight loss are two things that interest many people. Nowadays nearly everyone wants to know a fast and easy method to lose extra weight. Bulimia is considered by some people as one of this easy ways to become slim.
But how does it work, if it works at all?
When people become ... Views: 4347
What does it mean to be mature? According to Merriam-Webster, mature is defined as having completed natural growth and development. That is, being fully grown, complete, ready.
I do not believe that we arrive at a state of complete emotional maturity with no further need for growth and ... Views: 14536
Dr. Dan L. Edmunds, Ed.D., B.C.S.A. is a noted psychotherapist, child/adolescent developmental specialist, and social activist. Dr. Edmunds is the founder of the International Center for Humane Psychiatry, a coalition of mental health professionals, psychiatric survivors and others dedicated to ... Views: 4804
There are powerful forces at work which pull us to and fro and infect us with ideas of who we are, what we should be, and often block us from becoming. These forces arise within our social and familial structures. We are sent repetitive messages and they become deeply engrained. We may have been ... Views: 2444
No, I am not a clothing snob. Just because I nix flip-flops in the office and cargo shorts for Dress-down Fridays does not mean my idea of sartorial splendour begins and ends with Savile Row.
I will admit to a soft spot for black tie, a fondness for three-piece suits and a liking for tweed ... Views: 3536
The universe feels us; and we feel it as communication is transmitted through the information highway of our electrical nervous system and emotions (energy in motion). In The Solar Plexus or Abdominal Brain, late 1800’s writer, Atkinson [Dumont] offers a comprehensive guide on the biology of ... Views: 1892
A statement constitutes a lie only if at least one of the interlocutors knows it to be untrue, yet insists or assumes that it is true. If all the parties involved in the exchange know that the statement is false or if none of them know whether it is false or true, then it is fiction or an act of ... Views: 2467
"Life DOESN’T work, until you DO." Latesha summarized a valuable lesson she had learned from a recent encounter with adversity.
We laughed together, struck by Latesha’s ability to communicate wisdom so simply and elegantly.
"Do you know what you just did?" I asked her. "You ... Views: 1609
Losing a loved one to suicide is devastating for family, friends, and can reverberate through a community. We wonder if we should have seen the signs and if there was anything that we could have done to help them. In the United States today, suicide is the eleventh most common cause of death. ... Views: 1652
I always swore that I would never garden. When I was a teenager, my parents used to make us weed in the garden as a punishment. Every time I was sentenced to a couple of hours of gardening (which was pretty much every week), I would dream of the day I would be a grown up and never have to garden ... Views: 939
Browse the self-help aisle at the bookstore, or comb through the online material about self-esteem, and you'll mostly find advice on how to take "conscious control of your self-talk," to stop negative self-statements and replace them with affirmations, to love yourself, to conquer this or that ... Views: 1432