Health Guidance

Mental health counselling can be an effective therapy as part of a wider treatment plan for an individual who is suffering from depression or an anxiety related disorder, or for people who have experienced a traumatic event in their lives and are finding it difficult to cope with, or for those who are struggling to deal with specific problems and issues. It is often a doctor who will recommend mental health counselling, however, many individuals will seek the services of a counsellor themselves, either by asking their doctor for advice or by approaching a counsellor directly.

What is counselling

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Here are a few simple things that you can learn that will allow you to calm down and relax. Take Deep Breaths: Breathe from your diaphragm. When you breathe from your chest, it won’t relax you like deep breathing will. Picture in your mind your breath coming up from way down in your abdominal area.

Slowly repeat a calming word or phrase such as “relax,” “take it easy”, “it’s ok.” Repeat the word or phrase to yourself while breathing deeply.

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Many believe that psychiatry is not real; it’s a pseudoscience, trash, and a make belief science, it’s all about hypnotism etc. However, psychiatry is a medical science of a different order that deals with the mind and its intrinsic and complicated nature. Many mental disorders or illness often having an effect on the mind as well as the body can be treated by a psychiatrist. Insomnia, anxiety disorder, panic disorder, abnormally high pressure moods, various personality disorders etc are some of the common cases under psychiatry.

Mental health professionals and staff thrive across the globe. Psychiatric counselling has helped patients a great deal in coming out of depressions, rectifying personality disorders, correcting insomnia etc. Aids Phobia is common among a large number of people. Possessing little or lack of knowledge about HIV, and misinformed about Aids, people panic and suffer from mental and physical aspects. There are many such psychic disorders and phobias, schizophrenic cases, nervous disorders that require the expertise of a psychiatrist to deal with these.

Anorexia is a very common psychological disorder and more so in today’s young girls. Anorexia is a mental disorder where a person stops eating or eats less for fear of getting fat. Eventually such habit leads to a loss of appetite. The concept of hour glass figure is a growing trend among today’s young girls and it has had disastrous effects on the body and mind. Anorexia nervosa is one of the most common psychiatric disorders among young women. 1% of all teenage girls suffer from the condition, while for boys it is 0.1%. The disease has physical side effects like infertility among women. Continue reading ‘The Mystical World of Psychiatry’ »

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if you are in your 30’s, not elderly its call where did i put the bloody key and wallet , dont worry roughly speaking it ive done that from about the age of 18…

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OK here is the problem. I dunno wats wrong wid me.?
i hv be depressed fr a few months immediately bt culdnt want formal minister to.cudnt explain to my parents. my friends told me 2 look at the brighter side of time and cope up beside the depression.(it ws pretty fruitless .. i have turned a… Continue reading ‘Mental Health questions and answers’ »

Background -

One aspect of the mental health Access and Retention Initiative involves using transaction data to identify non-engaged patients. These patients may be defined as those having diagnoses including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or bi-polar disorder and who, during the pre-pilot period missed 30% or more of their scheduled individual therapy appointments and/ or medication management follow-up appointments. Once these patients are identified, their provider staff will be identified and will pilot one or more strategies intended to improve patient engagement.

The purpose of this article is to outline some potential ‘engagement improvement’ strategies as a basis for pilot staff “self assessment” (i.e. where do individual pilot staff stand with regard to current use of the strategies), “strategy selection” (i.e. which strategies do the pilot staff believe might improve retention among their identified pilot cases) and “identification of training/ support” for strategy implementation. Since the no-show / cancellation rates for the selected ‘non-engaged’ pilot patients will have occurred in the context of current practice, site teams are encouraged to pilot strategies not currently in use or not consistently in use. Continue reading ‘The Patient Centered Approach to Treating Patients Suffering with Schizophrenia and other Serious Mental Illnesses’ »

I’d like to discuss anger’s role in the generation and sustenance of panic attacks and anxiety. To give the matter its due, I’ve decided to present the information in two parts. In this edition, part one, we’ll review what anger is in the eyes of the psychoanalysts and cognitivists. And in part two we’ll have a closer look at how anger directly impacts panic and anxiety. Well, are you ready? Let’s get to work.

The French psychiatrist, Jacques Lacan, a 20th Century pioneer in psychoanalysis, believed aggression is generated as a psychological defense against the threat of something known as fragmentation; the mental and emotional sense of losing control over self-cohesion. Now, fragmentation may present in a feeling of low-grade distress, or it may manifest in all-out panic and terror, for fear of total annihilation. Lacan took the whole matter to infancy where a human is simply a mish-mash of biological functions well beyond internal management. And the only goal one could have is to at least make an effort to pull everything together into some semblance of cohesive identity. Continue reading ‘Panic Attacks, Anxiety, and Anger: The Dynamics of Defense’ »

Anger is an emotional response to someone or something that may have caused us to be anxious. If we don’t manage our anger it may become habitual, and we may experience difficult times stemming from consequences of our bouts of anger.

Usually when we suffer from bouts of uncontrolled anger, we know it. Being out of control can frighten us and those around us. We can learn how to deal with anger; understanding why we get angry and what makes us angry helps us to deal with it better.

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Mental health is really about how we think and feel about ourselves and the world around us, and about how we behave and interact with others in our day to day lives. It isnt easy to define exactly what it means to have good mental health as people will interpret what it means to be mentally healthy in different ways. On the other hand, there are some signs and symptoms that can indicate when someone has a mental health problem, when their mental functions are not performing as well as they could, and we see evidence of alternations in their thinking and behaviour.

Take depression for example, even though there is no set pattern and each person will be affected differently; there are some simple clues that we can look out for.

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In my ongoing quest for knowledge pertaining to the contributors to panic attacks and anxiety, as well as treatment strategies and techniques, I came upon some very cool stuff several years ago. It’s called Somatic Experiencing (SE) and it’s the amazing work of Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. This will be the first in a series of two articles. Here we’ll have a look at SE within the context of a contributor to panic and anxiety. The article that follows will approach SE from a treatment perspective. Well, tune-in because I know you’re going to find the information fascinating, hopeful, and helpful.

SE came to life as Dr. Levine observed that though wild animals of prey are under constant threat and siege, they’re rarely traumatized. Well, I never really gave that much thought, but I suppose it’s true. So, just how in the heck do they pull that off? Well, credit is given to an innate regulating mechanism that very efficiently manages and discharges the energy that accumulates in their bodies as a result of self-preservation behaviors. Levine observed that when an animal of prey survives a potentially deadly chase, it actually takes time to physically shake-off unused energy before moving on with the herd. Well, Levine posits we humans are equipped with essentially the same mechanism; however, ours is greatly inhibited by our more advanced cognitive capabilities. Man, how many times does thinking mess things up for us? By the way, isn’t it interesting that we so often use the phrase, “Just shake it off,” when someone takes a relatively minor hit of some kind. Continue reading ‘Panic Attacks, Anxiety, and Somatic Experiencing: Part I’ »

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In a previous article I discussed the importance of including balance issues in any discussion of the contributors to panic attacks and anxiety. Amazingly, this connection hasn’t received much attention, but it appears as though that’s changing. Yes, children with balance issues are being assessed for signs and symptoms of anxiety, and intervention strategies and techniques are being developed and implemented. This is great news, as it holds the potential to save millions from life-long suffering.

As you may know, in addition to our sense of hearing the inner ear is the headquarters of balance and equilibrium. Within the membranous labyrinth, a fluid-filled structure deep within the inner ear, is a relatively large area known as the vestibule. And it’s the “vestibular system” that monitors and manages balance and equilibrium by receiving and integrating input from the eyes, ears, and muscles of the trunk, neck, and limbs. Of course, the vestibular system gets a little help from its friends, one of which is the brain’s cerebellum. I guess it would make sense that the cerebellum is a major player in the integration of sensory perception, as well as motor control.

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