What Can We Learn From Quarantine?
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There is no doubt that this period of isolation and quarantine has left a path of devastation in its wake. Levels of anxiety have increased for many, depression, loneliness, and…
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Do I Have Agoraphobia?
Life under coronavirus lockdown may have brought up all kinds of issues for you, and you may have experienced all kinds of emotions. Now that we’re beginning to see signs…
Coronavirus and the Rise of Domestic Violence
Domestic abuse is an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent behaviour, including sexual violence, in the majority of cases by a partner or ex-partner,…
How To Unplug From Collective Anxiety
Anxiety. Possibly the second word of the moment, after coronavirus. And possibly just as contagious. Anxiety is often about the ‘what ifs’: a deep dread of what might happen. And…
Lockdown: Am I Drinking Too Much?
Alcohol Dependency & Coronavirus In times of stress and hardship, we can find ourselves drinking more often or more heavily. Alcohol Change UK has reported that 1 in 3 people…
Emotional Agility During Self-Isolation
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor Frankl Many…
Coronavirus: Looking After Your Children’s Mental Wellbeing
Although, thankfully, young children are less likely to develop severe symptoms of COVID-19, the pandemic is still impacting their daily lives and can still take a toll on their mental…
How Social Distancing Can Impact Your Mental Health
Social distancing has become the ‘new normal’ as we live through the Covid-19 pandemic, and we’re having to become used to staying home and not seeing our family and friends…
I Have OCD – The Coronavirus Is Taking My Anxiety Through The Roof
“I am 27, and was diagnosed with OCD when I was 14. It started with a fear of germs and the idea that if I didn’t check things a certain…
How To Work Productively From Home
Many of us already work from home, or at least have some experience of doing so, but some have never done this before. So suddenly being forced to do so…