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What Was Happening When It Started?

What Was Happening When It Started? - The key question in therapy.

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A Mental Toolkit for Navigating Depression

The human givens approach provides you with a powerful, lifesaving mental toolkit for navigating depression...

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We all need to connect with others

Social connection is vital - it improves our mental health and it can even help us live longer.

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What's really at the root of addiction

To effectively treat addiction, we must identify the unmet needs at its core.

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How We Know Human Givens Therapy Works

A recent study provides real-world evidence of its effectiveness

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When the Going Gets Tough, We Find Out Who Our Friends Are

When a close friend develops a severe or degenerative illness, knowing what to say and do can be hard...

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How You Can ‘Catch’ Depression

Depression can be contagious - we need to protect ourselves from 'catching' it.

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Getting Rid of Anxious Thinking

When we wish something about ourselves were different, we may unconsciously be keeping it the same, and embedding it deeper.

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Are You Guilty of Not Listening?

What can the Channel 4 programme "The Jury: Murder Trial" teach us about the importance of listening?

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Why Stories Help Us Heal From Anxiety and Depression

Stories help us heal because stories connect with the brain's right hemisphere.

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Watch Your Language

Language is powerful - used badly, language may fuel anxiety, depression and pain...

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Boredom Is Valuable

Boredom is valuable - it can lead to creativity or new understandings...

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What is most important to know about ADHD?

Whether ADHD is diagnosed or not, what counts is learning how best to manage symptoms that are troubling...

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Why We Dream

Many people are concerned by peculiar or scary dreams, wondering what they mean.

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Think You Can't Change Negative Behaviour?

When Suzanna was fully absorbed in something she loved, she had no need for anxiety - read Suzanna's story...

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Depression and high anxiety are context blind

Why depressed and anxious people can’t see context

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How to Win Despite Failing

Why learning from failure isn’t easy

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Unexpressed Anger Doesn’t Sit Inside Us

How to get rid of "bottled up" anger safely.

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Evoking positive memories is a powerful resource

Evoking Positive Memories Is a Powerful Resource - Why what you remember matters

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Can Eating More Fruit Reduce Depression?

Preventing depression – be careful what you believe

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You can’t make your kids have counselling

You can take your child to counselling but you can’t make them talk

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How to escape from acne anxiety

Don’t let anxiety about acne hold you back

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We don’t know what we think we know

Why most of us don’t really know what’s good for us

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Smouldering sibling resentment

When a sister relationship is smothering…

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Regrets Are Mostly Imagined

We don’t know how things would have turned out

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Effective Therapists Don't Just Listen

They must do a lot more than that ...

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Set a Goal in Therapy

It makes therapy far more likely to be effective.

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Psychosis Is Not Always What It Seems

For clinicians, curiosity is essential.

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Depressed or Anxious? Paying Attention Could Be the Key to Recovery

People dealing with depression or anxiety may not remember positive outcomes.

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What People Don’t Know About Antidepressants

Antidepressants: the hidden facts

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Depression: it’s not about what’s wrong with you …

Why depression isn’t what you think

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How to Tell When Therapy Is Safe and Effective

Why therapy should never make you feel bad

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When depression feels too big

Depression: when a little difference makes a big one

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Eating disorders need not be chronic ‘illnesses’

How to stop eating disorders from becoming chronic illnesses

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People become alcoholics for a reason

Alcoholism is never a disease

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What Lifts Depression Fast?

Why understanding it is key to recovery

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What drug companies don’t tell you

What the pharmaceutical industry keeps secret

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When a loved one is at risk of suicide

When information sharing can save a life

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Just Keep Going

When the going gets tough, keep going.

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Why You Don't Always Have to Believe Psychological Research

Just try it out and see.

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Anxiety Disorder? Clinical Depression?

Or fearful, bullied, or lost?

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The Key to Relationships

You need more than just one big one.

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Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for Depression

The evidence for “evidence-based therapy” may not be as solid as you’d think.

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How to Stay Mentally Strong in Lockdown

Making the best use of your resources

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Our Social Identities

We can use them against depression and anxiety.

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Plagued by Persistent Pain or Depression

Or just not following your dreams?

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When Anxiety Just Falls Away

It can be what you don’t do that counts.

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How to Reduce High Anxiety Now

It will make you safer when combating coronavirus.

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Self-Harming: We All Do It

When stress becomes overwhelming, acts of self-harm may tip into self-injury.

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Depression Is a Trance State

It has to be broken.

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How to Listen and What to Say

A simple way to show caring.

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Getting Over the Trauma of COVID-19

We can do it with the right approach.

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