Multi-level marketing is promoted as a great way to make money, and is often marketed at demographics such as stay-at-home-mothers as a flexible part-time job that can make a good income. But does it really work, and what is the psychology behind it?
Being co-dependent can often feel like a constant cycle of people pleasing and feeling responsible for everything and everyone around you. Although it may be difficult to battle this at first, breaking this cycle can be a big step into finding yourself and finally being able to attend to your own personal needs.
The aim of this case study is to show through the use of a client study, how cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can be applied in the treatment of depression. The patient is a woman with a 2-year history of depression connected with low self-esteem, guilt and shame. An account of the CBT treatment carried out over 12 sessions is given.
Mental health is very much an uneven playing ground in terms of what conditions respond best to individual approaches and the relative ease with which it’s possible to make a full recovery. For some behavioural issues, there might be a reasonably straight forward and linear path to follow. You can largely correct most behaviours within a short series of cognitive behavioural therapy sessions. But when it comes to trauma-based conditions, the way hasn’t always been quite as clear.
Much is often made of psychological home remedies. And while in some instances they’re unable to replace the more refined process of sitting down with a qualified therapist, for some, they can be exactly the boost they need. Not all people need to go to therapy, but almost everyone can benefit from taking a therapeutic approach to life.
Many of us are so busy with the day-to-day of our activities that we rarely pay any mind to the way we come to our final decisions – just the decisions themselves. It’s not the how or the why that’s important to us but the bottom line – the ‘what?’
Eating disorders come in many different guises. And by reading this article, you’ll almost certainly be familiar with anorexia and binge eating disorder. But both of these represent completely opposite sides of the spectrum. You may be surprised to learn there exists a quasi-satellite condition that in some ways work in tandem with anorexia, and in others is its own separate condition – although it has yet to be officially recognised by the DSM-5.
