Boundaries are an essential part of everyday life whether that’s with your partner, family, friends, colleagues or even yourself. They reflect your personal values and can look different for everyone, but their main purpose is to ensure you feel safe and comfortable in these relationships and prevent conflict, burn-out or disrespect.
Social media can inflict a range of emotions on everyone and can often be a negative trigger, putting a strain on your mental health. What you see on the internet only reflects a small part of reality or may even be completely false and can influence your perception of real life.
Depression isn’t a universal condition. It comes in many different variants, and there are actually ten types of depression which are commonly offered as a diagnosis. Two of the most prevalent of these are situational and clinical depression. They’re similar to one another in the way they present but have very different causes, and so each requires a specific approach in terms of treatment.
Cancer is a frightening illness, and the psychological effects of diagnosis and treatment can persist long after treatment has ceased.
Traumatic stress occurs in response to extraordinary events such as natural disasters, involvement in vehicle crashes, violent crime and terrorist attacks. The toll that this type of stress takes on the body can be overwhelming.
It’s sometimes common to think people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BDD), or Narcissistic Personality Disorder are suffering from the same condition. However, while it’s true there are some overlaps, they are in fact entirely separate clinical conditions. You could think of them as being different rooms of the same house; interlinked, but each operating as it’s own space.
Throughout the history of humanity, there have always been many people whose first response to any new technologies is fear and anxiety. Partly, this is just a fear of the unknown; we are creatures of habit, and we depend to a great extent on heuristics, or the simple strategies that we develop that form the basis of quick decision-making.
