What Are Different Types of Trauma?

Neuroscience, Trauma

What Are Different Types of Trauma?   Usually when we think of trauma, we think of awful things that happen to people. Abuse, violence, poverty, addiction, terror etc. But can we experience trauma when terrible things do not happen to us? Could your difficult...

Medication for Anxiety

Anxiety, Neuroscience

Medication for Anxiety   I am trying to work out whether there is a stigma that surrounds anxiety medication. A fairly large percentage of the adult population take medication to ease anxiety. I suspect those who do not take any medication are unaware of the many...

Do you have to be a product of your environment?

Neuroscience, Therapy

Do you have to be a product of your environment?   A friend recently ranted at me … with me … about how our fate depends on our circumstances as a child. Her frustration being that children born to parents with a university degree have a higher likelihood of...

What Causes Social Anxiety in the Brain?

Anxiety, Confidence, Neuroscience

What Causes Social Anxiety in the Brain?   In March 2020, across the globe we experienced a massive change to life when social restrictions came into force. Some of us thrived in this less hectic environment. Others experienced a deep loss of physical connection...

Why Hypnosis isn’t The Therapy

Neuroscience, Therapy

Why Hypnosis isn’t the Therapy   The trouble with hypnotherapy is that it can help anything and everything. At least this is the impression one finds when on a hunt for the answer to a problem. On the contrary there are very few people that seek out hypnotherapy....

What is anxiety?

Anxiety, Neuroscience

What is anxiety?   Ever have those conversations, where somebody tells you all about the symptoms of their latest health discovery. You realise that you too could tick every one of them off the list? This is happening more regularly with anxiety. You hear the...