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Therapists specialising in Chronic Stress

Chronic stress is defined as having problems with stress for long periods of time causing a person to not be able to relax. Psychotherapy is helpful for dealing with all the symptoms of chronic stress.

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Anxiety Disorders
There are various types of anxiety disorders all with different symptoms. That said, most of them revolve around anxiety - feeling nervous, anxious or worried in public even when there is no need to be. The dangers associated with these types of mental disorders are less than som...
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Cancer
While cancer is still an undeniably serious medical condition, it does not carry with it the same forbidding connotations that it once had. Now seen more as a chronic condition than a necessarily terminal one, people now discuss not only how to treat cancer physically, but how be...
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Chronic Motor or Vocal Tic Disorder
The major difference of this tic disorder is that there is the presence of one or more tics of only one type - vocal or motor. It typically appears before the age of eighteen. The causes center around abnormalities in the brain, but the exact reasons this disorder appears are not...
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Chronic Stress
When stress is persistently present for an extended period of time, it can cause a host of other problems to appear in a person's life. Chronic stress could lead to major depression or even substance abuse if a person doesn't have the ability to effectively deal with the stress i...
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Emotional Abuse
Often referred to as psychological abuse or mental abuse, emotional abuse is perhaps the most insidious kind of abuse. It is the hardest to prove and thought to be the most common kind of abuse. It often comes hand in hand with the other forms of abuse and serves to cause further...
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Mood Disorders
Mood disorders are a fairly common mental illness that affect many people in the modern world. The symptoms of these mental illnesses are going to vary a little depending on the exact type of mood disorder, but in general, they revolve around depression or a combination of depres...
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Sexual Abuse
Perhaps the most reviled kind of abuse, sexual abuse comes in many types and severities. The perpetration of any sexual acts on a person done without consent is a horrific and often emotionally scarring experience that can lead to long term psychological complications. Like every...
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Stress
Stress is present in many aspects of modern life, but some people have a better time managing and dealing with it. While some can enter a stressful situation and come out the other side stronger than ever before, others may have difficulties relieving stress in healthy ways. This...
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Tic Disorders
Tourette's syndrome is one of the more well known tic disorders, but there are others that affect many people. Symptoms of tic disorders include involuntary and repetitive movements or repetition of sounds. There are two main types of tic disorders, those that affect motor skills...
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Blog Posts

Sara Moncrieff
Change your breathing and you transform your world by Sara Moncrieff

Breath

Breath is life. We can live for a number of weeks without food, two or three days without water but only a few moments without breathing. Breathing properly will fill you with energy and a feeling of self control.

Conscious deep breathi...


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Sara Moncrieff
Crying is good for you by Sara Moncrieff

Scientists have identified three kinds of tears, basal tears- which provide lubrication, reflex tears- which are produced in response to irritation and emotional tears. Tears cried because you are feeling emotional have a different and higher composition of chemicals and inclu...


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Sara Moncrieff
Do you have any of these symptoms? They could be caused by your stress by Sara Moncrieff

Symptoms of Stress

 

  • a tendency to gain fat around the middle
  • an increased appetite
  • increased cravings for chocolate, sweets, bread, cakes, caffeine and alcohol (particularly any combination of carbohydrates and ...


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Sara Moncrieff
Feeling fragile? by Sara Moncrieff

Affirmations for Stress Management

I find that when I am feeling particularly vulnerable and fragile that meditating using an affirmation really comforting. No matter how self-aware, intelligent and unique we consider ourselves to be, it is a fact that we are all hig...


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Sara Moncrieff
How stressed are you right now? by Sara Moncrieff

How stressed are you right now? How stressed do you feel

Level 0 – meditative state
Body – still
Mind – calm and focused
Emotions- calm, serene
Behaviour – inactive, passive
Level 0 – you can only be ...


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Sara Moncrieff
How to cope with your day to day life by Sara Moncrieff

How to cope with your life

When you have been suffering from chronic stress for a few weeks and the ‘stress hormones’ are fizzing in your veins it can be very easy to lose ‘the plot’ and find that you are not copying with day to day life.
Either you:

Kirsten Sheat
It's like losing a toenail by Kirsten Sheat

I'm sure there are many analogies about personal development and what positive changes self- awareness can produce in a person's life. The journey inside is an extremely personal one and no two are alike. To create change for the better and to be able to become a better 'yo...


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Sara Moncrieff
Journaling by Sara Moncrieff

Journaling

 

The key to surviving and managing stress is identifying and understanding what causes us stress. It may seem obvious, but how much is actually caused by our stress-inducing thoughts, feelings and behaviours?

To identify the true so...


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Kate Harris

Making Changes  by Kate Harris

 

Change involves taking risks.

 

The more you confront your fears the more confident you will become.

 

To grow as a person involves challenging yourself to step outside your comfort zone.

 


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Sara Moncrieff
More About Affirmations by Sara Moncrieff

Some affirmations to try. .

Yesterday I wrote about using affirmations when I feel fragile. This is not the first time I have talked about using an affirmation as a security blanket.

When life isn’t panning out quite as you hoped using positive affirmations to ...


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