A client describes his CBT treatment of IBS with our CBT Therapist. IBS can be unforgiving, affecting 1 in 7. Six months after treatment James Morton explains how he got better with CBT. He describes how IBS impacted his life, what he did to overcome IBS and the changes CBT had on his move to London
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Lucy Wallis writes for the BBC about Catherine Benfield's journey out of OCD. She recovered with CBT, but also helped by creating Olive the personification of her OCD. In the CBT treatment of OCD we often encourage clients to externalise their OCD experience, for these very reasons...
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In this guide, you'll find advice on how to manage your anxiety. You'll find relevant information about Anxiety and what you can do in this article. The advice can help you improve your life.
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When doing something new, CBT therapists reflect with clients on the pros & cons of our options, e.g. going to a first date, accepting a job offer, renting or buying, smoking, losing weight, asking for help, moving to London, finding a CBT therapist. Here we look at a process that helps.
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Although September this year has provided a record-breaking heat wave, for some, autumn to winter depression is only around the corner. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a treatment for anxiety and depression in general, can help seasonal depression and may prevent it recurring in future years.
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The hard part wasn’t telling people I had obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The hard part is dealing with it. Two years ago I wrote an article for a magazine about living with OCD and how my fear of the number three had started to take over my life. My friends all congratulated me, and my parents
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We have expert CBT therapists that are effective in treating PTSD. CBT and EMDR are the treatment of choice for PTSD and complex PTSD. We have outstanding results for PTSD: measured on anxiety, depression, and Impact of Events Scale(r). You can benchmark our data across other CBT and EMDR services.
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The prescribed treatment for depression under the NICE guidelines is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. If you are experiencing some symptoms related to this article you may be suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder. Feel free to call us now on 0207 929 7911 for any depression enquiries.
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Being in a relationship does not necessarily, in itself, protect people from having suicidal thoughts. This is the finding of a recent study into the correlation between relationship status and suicidal thoughts conducted by scientists from MedUni Vienna’s Institute of Social Medicine and the…
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Anxiety is caused by biological factors, learning experiences and your triggers to anxiety - stress can play a part in developing anxiety. Often our anxieties are learnt in childhood but they can be learnt in adulthood. Noticing anxious thoughts just before feeling anxiety will identify the cause.
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The anxiety disorders are a cluster of disorders, often related and overlapping, with defined diagnostic criteria. Anxiety is a natural emotion and high levels of anxiety does not mean it is an anxiety disorder. There are six anxiety disorders. In others disorders anxiety may be experienced.
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Symptoms of anxiety in our body can be diverse. These are different from anxiety disorder to disorder, and person to person. Here we describe the Threat Response of anxiety, also known as autonomic symptoms of anxiety.
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A fear of fainting is one of the main concerns in panic disorder. It can be a persistent and repetitive thought that is experienced. Find out here the relationship between fainting, anxiety and the anxiety disorders here.
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When we are anxious our pulmonary, cardiac, endocrine, intestine, urinary, gastric, neurological systems are all activated, but is it dangerous? Find out here.
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Avoidance and worrying about anxiety tend to make it worse, definitely worrying about being anxious is never helpful. There are simple things that can help. Find out what they are and how to get help.
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Suicide is currently the single biggest killer of men aged under 45 in the UK, and men are nearly four times more likely than women to take their own life. And members of the National Suicide Prevention Alliance – 70 organisations from the private, public and voluntary sectors – are calling upon men
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Women may be at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder following a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, suggests a new study. The team behind the research, from Imperial College London, say the findings suggest women should be routinely screened for the condition, and receive specific psychological…
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It’s been an interesting few years for mental health; once seen as an ambiguous and silent range of problems that were kept out of the public perception, it has recently found its voice and received an unprecedented amount of attention. Numerous articles are questioning the quality of treatment…
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It’s Wednesday morning and the children from year five at St John the Baptist primary school in Brighton are chatting noisily at their desks. A bell chimes and the chatter stops. Thirty children close their eyes and place a hand across their chest, breathing in and out slowly. It’s as if they’ve bee
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More young women aged 16 to 24 than ever before are experiencing mental health problems according to a government study, Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, published last week. ‘Young women have become a key high-risk group,’ it said. The survey followed another recent study that found more than a…
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