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Stress Can Be Good For You: About Stress Generally.(Cont.d from last week).
The great and persisting worry – indeed, as one patient described it to me, “This clinging and inescapable mire” – amounts to something like this: “I am caught in a trap, knowing as I do that I am (or my … Continue reading
Depression. iv b: “All that glitters is not gold”.
Antidepressant drugs, as we have already seen, are basically designed to target and to deal with biogenic or chemically-induced, depression. Notice that although Angela (see my most recent blog) felt low and “depressed”, as she described it, “most of the … Continue reading
Depression iv a: “when all that glitters is not gold”.
In this blog, I want if I may, to draw together several important and related points, concerning the diagnosis and treatment of depression. In order to achieve this end, I shall again draw upon actual experience within the clinical scene, … Continue reading
Depression iiib; when all the joy goes out of living.
Perhaps I might pause here from my account concerning Geraldine in my most recent blog; this in order to outline in greater detail a little more about chemically (or biogenically) induced depression. As it happens, we all – in the … Continue reading
Depression iic : Coping with life’s ‘deeper troughs’.
The question now arises as to why I have related the above account concerning Stephen as part of my discourse on depression? Well, it is because it does, in point of fact, provide a very good case record and example … Continue reading
Anxiety: a final word.
In the days of my childhood, I knew a man who ‘rejoiced’ under the extraordinary nickname of “Linnet”. Linnet was himself an unusual and eccentric character; he was a loner and the butt of mostly (but not always) harmless practical … Continue reading
Coping with Anxiety iv: The meaning and management of panic attacks.(Cont’d)
Following on from my last blog, I would ask you to consider the case of a woman who worries endlessly about the immediate and continuing safety of her young son, to the point where it is now spoiling lives. Yet … Continue reading
Coping with Anxiety: an Introduction.
Let me begin this blog with a couple of paragraphs, simply intended to record and reflect upon a truly universal mental and behavioural phenomenon. Human fear and anxiety are as old as is humanity itself. Indeed, our sub- and early … Continue reading
Practical Ways of Easing the Load.
I believe that both of the instances (referred to in my last blog) of initial reactions and responses, point to a need for all concerned to ensure that what is said and heard (which are by no means always the … Continue reading
Further Common Issues Needing to be Addressed.
Significant content of this website ‘published’ to date, has focused around those typical and well-documented early reactions and responses to “bad news”. Moreover, we know – sometimes from first hand experience – how even the most ordered and controlled of … Continue reading