Remember January? It seems an age since everyone was planning their new year’s resolutions. Imagine if we’d known then what we know now. That yearly gym subscription might have been swapped out for a Netflix or Zoom subscription. For most of us in the UK, March 23rd saw our world turned upside down. Whether you were a key worker returning to a strange and scary new workplace or one of the millions who were told to stay at home, life as we knew it changed overnight.
Many of our services are now delivered online, whether it’s banking, shopping or a Doctor’s appointments, we are increasingly embracing the flexibility of being able to access services in the comfort of our own homes. It should come as no surprise that counselling services too are increasingly finding themselves being used online. Online counselling might not be for everyone but it can offer some people advantages over more traditional face to face counselling.
One of the best ways to help a friend with anxiety would be to understand and recognise the condition and the severity in which it can affect a person’s life.
There’s a lot of useful information in the media recently about how diet can impact our physical health, hardly a week goes by without another study being published. In comparison, however, there have been fewer articles highlighting the benefits of good nutrition on mental health.
Depression is one of the most common mental health problems, affecting 1 in 4 people within the UK alone, and it is on the rise every year. Awareness regarding depression has increased due to this, although many are still unaware of how serious the condition can be.
For many people, animals have proven to have a significant impact on mental health and it is suggested that simply the presence of an animal can have a very calming influence.
Mental health is what we refer to when we are describing our emotions and psychological wellbeing and it encompasses everything from happiness and joy to despair and numbness. Even with the great progress that has been made in recent years, there is still a stigma surrounding mental illness.
Deciding whether you would benefit from counselling can be a difficult decision, remind yourself that you can stop at any point, it isn’t something you have to do if you don’t want to, or for the rest of your life. Sometimes it’s just about giving yourself a little bit of space and quality time to catch up with yourself, consider what isn’t feeling ok, and move through that to a happier place and way of being.
When life creates difficult situations, it’s normal to feel sad or low for a while. Depression, however, is a persistent feeling of sadness or low-mood that can last for weeks and months.
Most people have a sleep/wake cycle, also knows as a circadian rhythm, it is the way that our bodies monitor our environment in order to indicate internally when it is time carry out particular tasks, such as hormone release, eating habits and digestion. Circadian rhythm changes throughout life and is often not noticed until for whatever reason, the sleep pattern is disrupted.
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