High Functioning Depression: Signs, Symptoms and Support
Understanding the signs, symptoms, and support options for those that may be suffering in plain sight with high-functioning depression.
The Silver Lining: Finding a Reason to Smile in Tough Times
When times are tough and you’re in the midst of challenging circumstances, finding a reason to smile can seem impossible. Finding the silver lining in a tough situation is not always easy, and it can even seem hopeless in some cases. But it’s there – and finding it can help you endure and get past […]
Dealing with anxiety when returning to the workplace
Irritation, stress and frustration – These three words can be presently piling up on your senses while, distorting the mental symphony of ideas and execution. Is this happening to you? You are not alone. These are the aspects of anxiety entering into everyone’s life at a hare’s pace. When you enter the world of work […]
How Exercise May Help Reduce Your Anxiety
When you have anxiety or depression, slipping on a pair of runners and heading to the gym may feel like the last thing you want to do. Being motivated can seem an overwhelming task when you’re depressed, but as they say, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Depression and anxiety […]
Role of Emotions
This article is about the role of emotions and, more specifically, how emotions are helpful even when they are unpleasant. Even though emotions are generally a useful tool, people can run into problems with them when they experience too much or too little of an emotion; or when they experience an emotion at an inappropriate […]
The stigma of Mental Health is now changing with time!
(AIHW) Australian Institute of Health and Welfare – case study, 2016. “A life without stigma.” This was a data survey done and presented in a video format to make people aware of the social stigma of mental health. Previously, almost a decade back, at least 87% of the people who were suffering from mental health […]
Jane Goodall, Mindfulness and Our Emotions
by Dr Sam Tan (Wee Hong), Senior Clinical Psychologist Dr Jane Goodall, the primatologist sat in the forest occasionally writing into her small notebook. She would look up from her writing and peer through her binoculars at the scene that unfolded in front of her eyes. Without a rifle to protect her against the great […]
Facing Our Emotions with Equanimity
Dr Sam Tan, Clinical Psychologist Centre for Human Potential One of the immediate reactions to our strong negative emotions is to reject them. We might do our best to “think positively”, to argue with ourselves, to suppress our emotions or to avoid situations that evoke these emotions in the first place. In short we try […]
Spotting depression – when blue becomes black
Clinical depression is a strikingly common mental health problem, experienced by almost one in three of us at some point in our lives. For some the problem becomes chronic, involving repeated episodes of black mood between stretches of normality. Such individuals often learn to recognise the signs of an impending episode; however, for those who […]
10 Signs You Are Emotionally Attached to a Negative Past
10 Signs you are Emotionally Attached to a Negative Past is a book By MIKE BUNDRANT and this is his article worth re posting. I am emotionally attached to the negativity in my past. That attachment to interferes with my present day life as an adult. I remember, it was 25 years ago when I […]