MDF Are You On The Path To Self Discovery 1. When you think about the "big picture," what is your life really about? Please select an option Question: 1 of 10 2. What drives you to explore your life? Question: 2 of 10 3. Question: 3 of 10 4. Question: 4 of 10 5. Question: 5 of 10 6. Question: 6 of 10 7. Question: 7 of 10 8. Question: 8 of 10 9. Question: 9 of 10 10. Question: 10 of 10 1. Paying off my mortgage and student loans. 7% (votes: 484) Making sure I'm an excellent mother to my children. 12% (votes: 873) It's about being at peace with who I am and making a conscious effort to be a good person. 81% (votes: 5742) 2. It's important to understand what makes me tick as a person so I can better understand my place in the world. 59% (votes: 3298) What in the world are you talking about? 7% (votes: 399) I guess it's good to have a strong sense of who you are as a person. 34% (votes: 1866) 3. I don't realize it as I'm doing it, but later on I'll wonder why I behaved in a way that was out of character. 54% (votes: 2651) 10% (votes: 505) 36% (votes: 1744)
About Rethink Mental Illness Welcome to Rethink Mental Illness. We help millions of people affected by mental illness by challenging attitudes, changing lives. Here is just a selection about what we do, and what it means for you. We believe a better life is possible for millions of people affected by mental illness. Over 40 years ago, one man bravely spoke about his family’s experiences of mental illness in a letter to the Times and in the process brought together hundreds to talk about their experiences of mental illness and support each other. Today we directly support almost 60,000 people every year across England to get through crises, to live independently and to realise they are not alone. When I was first ill, I had no hope. Advice and information We provide expert, accredited advice and information to everyone affected by mental health problems. Services and groups We have over 200 mental health services and 150 support groups across England. Campaigning We're stronger with you Or raise funds Or give How we do it
Emergence Self Improvement We all live lives of infinite potential but few of us make the most of what we’ve got. The banality of everyday life takes over and we become stuck in a rut. We start to exist rather than thrive and we leave this world with a pathetic whimper instead of a colossal bang! I don’t know about you, but I don’t want that! I want to squeeze every last drop out of my time on this glorious planet and know that I haven’t wasted a single minute being unhappy or dissatisfied. I mean, why wouldn’t you want to want to explore your potential and be the best that you can be? It’s not necessarily about being dissatisfied with your lot in life. Life is for living and doing it on your own terms. Self improvement is about fostering the good relationships in our lives and sharing our unique gifts with others. Seriously, what do you imagine you could achieve if only you had the opportunity? Now is your chance to change those things. Nobody should hold you back from reaching your potential, and that includes you!
Contact Mind City And Hackney: Mind City And Hackney For an easy online referral to all of our services, Please click Here. Enquiry Form If you require further information from us or have any comments, please fill in the form below and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. View Larger Map Get In Touch Need Help Now! Ouch Feature - PD Exhibition Psychological Therapies When deciding on an appropriate counsellor or psychotherapist, it can be useful to understand the different therapies they may use. Although all can be effective, you may find one approach more appealing than another, or find that some approaches are better for a certain area of counselling or psychotherapy than others. Psychological therapies generally fall into four categories. These are behavioural therapies, which focus on cognitions and behaviours, psychoanalytical and psychodynamic therapies, which focus on the unconscious relationship patterns that evolved from childhood, humanistic therapies, which focus on self-development in the 'here and now' and arts therapies, which use creative arts within the therapeutic process. This is a generalisation though and counselling or psychotherapy usually overlaps some of these techniques. Some counsellors or psychotherapists practice a form of 'integrative' therapy, which means they draw on and blend specific types of techniques.
50,000 NHS job cuts hit mental health services "We promised to reduce NHS bureaucracy and plough this money straight back into patient care, and that is exactly what we are delivering. Since May, we have 2,500 more doctors, more nurses and more midwives - and 2,000 fewer managers." But has seen figures suggesting that some of the deepest cuts will hit some of the most vulnerable people – in mental health services. In total, 6,346 jobs could be at risk across the 53 mental health trusts, with a high proportion of the jobs on the clinical, rather than management, side. Campaigners said that it was seen as a "soft" cut because often people using mental health services either can not or dare not speak up. {*style:<i>Rethink Mental Illness Chief Executive Paul Jenkins </i>*} Rethink Mental Illness Chief Executive Paul Jenkins told : "This is a devastating blow to the already chronically under-funded services for people with a mental illness. "These figures are just the tip of the iceberg and are a very worrying indication.
MOODJUICE - Shyness & Social Anxiety - Self-help Guide If the answer to any of these questions is 'yes,' you may be experiencing symptoms of social anxiety and you may find this workbook helpful. If you are socially anxious, it is likely that you will experience some of the symptoms described below. Please tick the boxes which describe your feelings, physical symptoms, thoughts and behaviour patterns when in social settings. Feelings Anxious / on edge Vulnerable / under the spotlight Self conscious / out of place Embarrassed Physical Symptoms Face goes red (blushes) Butterflies in stomach / stomach churns Heart races Voice goes shaky / body trembles Sweat Dizzy / light headed Breathing changes Thoughts I have nothing interesting to say, I'm boring Everyone is staring at me People can tell how anxious I am I'll stammer / I'll blush I mustn't look anxious I look and sound stupid Behaviour Patterns If you have ticked a number of these boxes, you may be experiencing symptoms of social anxiety. What is social anxiety? What causes social anxiety? Phone:
The Power of Metaphor in Counselling The use of metaphor is such a powerful source for personal change in counselling, I admit this is a strong statement to make, how then can that be true? I will endeavour to evidence this claim in this article, and like a metaphor used by a client in a session this will change from one meaning to another, and give flesh to this claim. Let’s look at what is a metaphor ‘a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action that it does not literally denote in order to imply a resemblance, for example he is a lion in battle’ (Collins Concise Dictionary).Okay what can using metaphor do to help a client in a counselling session? The power of metaphor in counselling in my experience is that once a client can use and own a metaphor for themselves it becomes limitless as to what meaning or feeling they can own through their use of metaphor.
Tangled Spaghetti in My Head: Making use of metaphor First published in Therapy Today, journal of the BACP, October 2005. Tangled Spaghetti in My Head: Making use of metaphor Penny Tompkins, Wendy Sullivan and James Lawley Metaphor "Metaphor is as ultimate as speech itself, and speech as ultimate as thought ...Metaphor appears as the instinctive and necessaryact of the mind exploring reality and ordering experience." John Murry, Countries of the Mind, 1931 In the last 25 years the research of many neuroscientists, cognitive scientists and linguists has converged to form a new understanding about the way the human mind works. 1 Four key findings have been: Through our clinical experience, described in Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling,2 we would add: The healing professions have had a long history of making use of metaphor and symbol in a variety of ways. Describe emotionally charged events. Just helping your client to develop a metaphorical description of their issue can be therapeutic in itself. Literal Listening Or,