Monthly Archives: December 2007

I have talked before about the branch of psychotherapy known as art therapy, where art is used to communicate non-verbally in order to help you understand yourself more and hopefully ease or grow out of any problems that you have … Continue reading →

As we get towards the end of the year there is no doubt a bit of sadness for what we didn’t manage to achieve in the previous twelve months. For people who have anxiety and depression it is often a … Continue reading →

I hope you have a very merry Christmas, or, if you don’t support Christmas you have a very relaxing holiday season! Christmas can also be the most stressful time as family and friends make endless demands on us and our … Continue reading →

Before we talk about curing panic attacks let’s get a few facts about them straight. Panic Attacks are horrendous. They are also a major cause of people presenting themselves at emergency rooms or accident and emergency departments. They are caused … Continue reading →

I used to have insomnia. Now, I am not an insomniac but occasionally I do have trouble dropping off to sleep. This is natural, everyone has problems nodding off at some time or other. Let us define Insomnia. The medical … Continue reading →

Increasingly, anxiety therapy is coming back into fashion. After years of SSRI anti-depressants and CBT ruling the roost, good old-fashioned therapy is being accepted again. Many people that suffer from anxiety fear what will happen when they start therapy. Will … Continue reading →

What causes anxiety is one of the most common questions that anxiety sufferers ask themselves. It is also not an easy question to answer. One pertinent answer is who cares? After all, what caused it is not as important as … Continue reading →

The fear of heights is one of the most common anxieties or phobias in the world. Like most phobias, it has a special name, Acrophobia. Acrophobia is commonly confused with Agoraphobia because of the similarity in names. But Agoraphobia is … Continue reading →

Before I say anything else, I have a little addition to yesterday’s post about exercise, stress, depression and anxiety and how exercise can be used to treat it or at least mitigate against it. Lo and behold today there is … Continue reading →

There are of course many studies into reducing stress and eliminating anxiety. Many of these pieces of research, although peer reviewed, are carried out by the companies that produce stress and anxiety relieving products, such as pharmaceutical companies. Obviously only … Continue reading →