Being in a relationship can make us feel vulnerable and emotionally exposed. If you are prone to stress and doubt or have been hurt in earlier relationships, your relationships anxiety can build to a level that’s hard to deal with. In a generally healthy relationship, you’ll want to find practical ways to deal with anxiety […]
Before we talk about improving low self esteem, we must first take a look at what self esteem actually means. In psychology, the term self-esteem means a person’s overall sense of self-worth or personal value. As human beings, we each have the ability to not only be aware of ourselves, but to measure our worth […]
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 […]
by Dr Sam (Wee Hong) Tan “The Spirit of A Man Is Constructed Out of His Choices” – Irvin Yalom James came to therapy seeking a way to move forward with his life. For the last 10 years, he has been struggling to hold down a job because of stress. Now, he feels a strong […]
(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 […]
by Dr Sam Wee Hong Tan, Senior Clinical Psychologist As part of our Personal Development, many of us struggle with being interpersonally effective. Or as effective as we would like to be. We may wonder why, despite our best efforts, that we don’t seem to shake others’ perceptions of us or that we cannot seem […]
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 […]
Routine. This is one word that most of us dislike because perhaps we had been exposed to too tight a routine in school or perhaps because routine for some of us means boredom. However, some level of routine is essential for us to maintain stability in our emotions and overall mental well-being. We know instinctively […]
by Dr Sam (Wee Hong) Tan, Clinical Psychologist Brisbane “If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.” – Dalai Lama It was 1990 in Dharmasala, at the Mind and Life Conference when Dr Sharon Salzberg (known for her work on Loving Kindness) asked the Dalai Lama about […]
Anger can kill romance, screw up aspects of work, eat away at relationships, be used as a tool to gain more power or release pent up feelings. Anger can also be a useful way to communicate when done in an appropriate way. Men in particular often have difficulties with anger. Western societies teach men that […]
