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The 3 Reasons Anxiety Won’t Resolve Itself
The 3 Reasons Anxiety Won’t Resolve Itself. Anxiety can be an extremely painful and distressing problem for the sufferer and with at least 1 in 6 people experiencing it in…
How to Help Your Child Deal with Anxiety
Don’t Minimise Their Anxiety Anxiety is an evolutionary response to a perceived threat, therefore if your child is suffering from anxiety it is because they believe that they are at…
Coping with Back to School Anxiety
When we are faced with something new or unfamiliar our threat or fight/flight response kicks in. We have evolved to respond in this way, it’s a survival strategy, if we…
How to Face the things you Fear
The first part of this blog looks at why we experience fear or anxiety in the face of certain challenges that have the potential to move our lives forward in…
Driving Test Nerves
In this blog I am going to give you 3 tips to help you to manage your Driving Test Nerves so you can maximise your chances of passing your test…
Video Therapy Course for Anxiety
For younger children (under 10) watch the video, adapt the information for your child and practice the techniques with them. For older children (10 and over) watch the videos with your child and practice the techniques with them. Watch one new video every week.
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Chill Panda
Chill Panda helps children better understand their stress and shows them ways to feel better using breathing techniques, yoga, exercise, and calming games.
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How to Spot Depression in Children
Low mood in children is often dismissed as a passing phase, sometimes as just part of growing up. However, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence estimates that in the…
Treating Depression in Children
It is estimated that in the UK alone there are 80,000 children suffering from Depression, that equates to about 4% of children. In this blog I am going to go…
4 Tips To Cope With Depression
It is estimated by the World Health Organisation that if current trends continue, by 2020 Depression will be the second most disabling condition in the world, after heart disease…
Protect Yourself against Depression
In the first part of this blog we look at how our thoughts are key in protecting ourselves against depression and low mood. It is not what happens to us…
Things to Consider before taking Anti Depressants
1. The Underlying Theory is flawed. Anti depressants (e.g. Citalopram, Sertraline, Paroxetine, Fluoxetine) assume a physiological basis to depression, which as yet, has not proven. Some studies have found differences…
Can You Inherit Depression?
The risk of you suffering from depression does increase if a member of your family also suffers from depression, however, this is not for the reasons that you may think…
Video Therapy Course for Depression
For younger children (under 10) watch the video, adapt the information for your child and practice the techniques with them. For older children (10 and over) watch the videos with your child and practice the techniques with them. Watch one new video every week.
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Think Ninja
ThinkNinja is an app specifically designed to educate 10-18 year olds about mental health, emotional wellbeing, and to provide skills young people can use to build resilience and stay well.
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How to Help your Child Deal with Anger
In the first part of this blog we look at what not to do when helping your child to deal with anger and how to teach them to reduce their…
Why Anger Is Good For Us
Anger is without a doubt the emotion with the worst reputation. It provokes more fear, shame and attempts at suppression than all the other emotions put together. More than 1…
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For 4-8 Yrs
Daniel Tiger’s Grr-ific Feelings – Children can play, sing, and learn about all kinds of feelings
For Children 4+
The Zone of Regulation – To help children learn to regulate their emotions.
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5 Facts about OCD
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) 1. How Common is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)? Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects between 1 and 3 % of children and adults and in 80% of…
4 Effective Ways To Deal With OCD
How to Deal with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health problem that affects at least 1.2 % of the population. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)…
How to stop Compulsive Behaviours
Compulsive behaviours are a response to anxiety, they are intended by the sufferer to either directly reduce anxiety or prevent an anxiety provoking event (e.g. harm to one’s self or…
The Best Treatment for OCD
In this blog I am going to explain the best treatment for adults suffering with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This information is up to date at the time of publishing…
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4 Facts about Eating Disorders
1. Mortality rates Eating Disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness and for females between the ages of 15 and 24 years it is associated with a…
How to Spot an Eating Disorder in a Friend or Relative
An Eating Disorder (e.g. Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder) is a secretive disorder, for a number of reasons. Firstly because at the root of an eating disorder…
The Dangers of Diets
Our bodies are designed to survive and when we diet it sees this as a threat to this survival and fights back with physiological tactics including increased hunger, preoccupation with…
Skinny Models are NOT to Blame for Eating Disorders
It is often suggested that exposure to overly thin models leads to eating disorders in adolescent girls. However, such a belief not only fundamentally misunderstands the nature of an eating…
Eating Disorders – It’s not about the food
Contrary to popular opinion an individual suffering from an eating disorders (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified {EDNOS}) has not lost their appetite…
5 Top Tips for Dealing with Bulimia Nervosa
1. Develop a regular pattern of eating If you are bingeing developing a regular pattern of eating is an essential first step. One of the main triggers for bingeing is…
How to Stop Binge Eating
Binge eating is a reasonably common problem, at the milder end of the continuum it leads to weight gain, low mood and anxiety, at the more severe end it is…
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is a mental health problem whereby the sufferer becomes extremely concerned with an aspect of their appearance, usually with a perceived physical flaw. Objectively the flaw…
What is the Best Treatment for Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)?
BDD is an anxiety disorder that effect approximately 1 in 50 people. It effects both men and women of any age but is particularly common in teenagers and young adults…
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Do You Have Low Self Esteem?
So, how do you work out if you are suffering from low self-esteem? Ask yourself these questions: 1. Are you very critical of yourself? 2. Do you hold yourself to…
How to Help Your Child Deal with Low Self Esteem and Low Confidence
Low Self Esteem and Confidence underpins the majority of mental health problems including anxiety, depression, eating disorders (inc. anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)…
Why is being confident so important?
The Importance Of Confidence We are all born with a combination of attributes both physical and psychological. The range of these attributes is diverse from physical attractiveness and strength to…
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CBT Tools for Healthy Living (Cognitive Diary/CBT Self-Help)
Based on cognitive-behavioural therapy tools and developed by a licensed and practicing psychotherapist.
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How To Cope With Self-Harm – 3 Steps
In this blog I am going to explain a 3-step approach to cope with Self-Harm. Self-harm is a discrete episode where someone intentionally harms themselves when distressed and that…
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How to Have a Better Night’s Sleep
Having trouble sleeping, either struggling to fall asleep, staying asleep and/or waking up early is very common and is usually a symptom of another problem e.g. stress, anxiety, depression, low…
How to Help your Child Deal with Nightmares
When we sleep our brains process what has happened to us during the day. New experiences (good and bad) present challenges that require additional processing, so dreams are often more…
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Coping with Back to School Anxiety
When we are faced with something new or unfamiliar our threat or fight/flight response kicks in. We have evolved to respond in this way, it’s a survival strategy, if we…
How To Tackle Bullying
In this blog I am going to describe a 10-step plan to tackle bullying. Work Closely with your Child’s School Sooner Rather than Later The sooner you can…
Dealing with Bullying
Bullying is an experience that is not limited by age, whether you are in the playground or at work if you suffer from low self esteem and confidence you are…
My son has recently started saying that he doesn’t want to go to school
Dear Dr Gray, My son has recently started saying that he doesn’t want to go to school. When we get to school he doesn’t want me to leave him and…
How To Deal With Exam Stress
In this blog I am going to describe 5 tips for dealing with exam stress and a 6th tip if you are a parent reading this trying to help your…
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Excitement Can Become Addictive!
Excitement can become addictive. For example, some researchers are concerned that children’s use of video games, particularly those that involve aggression, may be over stimulating the dopamine drive system. Each…
Does Facebook make you Depressed?
We all have within us a tendency to present the best version of ourselves to the outside world. This tendency is driven by a desire for praise and a fear…
How To Spot Cyberbullying And What To Do About It
How To Spot Cyberbullying And What To Do About It With the recent advances in technology and the internet, bullying has been taken to a whole new level. Kids, teens…
Are You Addicted To Your Phone?
Often when we feel sad, worried, lonely or angry, we reach for something to take the edge off the discomfort. Every once in a while this is fine, it’s human…
5 Steps to Cure Your Phone Addiction
This blog is for when you realise that using your phone to keep your life ticking over has become a way of escaping from it. Here are 5 steps to…
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