Whether you’ve struggled with anxiety attacks your whole life or are experiencing them for the first time, it’s important to understand what happens to your body during an attack so you can control it. Unlike a panic attack, anxiety attacks build slowly over time, frequently in response to triggers. These are usually an event or circumstance that kicks off the ‘anxiety’ response.
Anxiety has always been prevalent in our society, and the prevalence has increased in recent years. If you find yourself among those who are struggling with this, you may feel that no matter what you do, you can’t seem to stop the worries and fears from consuming you.
Complex PTSD is a form of post-traumatic stress disorder that develops as a response to a specific type of trauma. Complex PTSD usually develops by experiencing prolonged trauma. The signs or symptoms of both Complex PTSD and PTSD will usually begin within three months after the trauma occurred. The signs and symptoms can last up to years if left untreated.
If you’ve recently experienced some type of loss, whether the loss was a person, a place, or a thing, any type of loss can be difficult to navigate. Life changes are hard and grief is often part of the process. Unfortunately, if you have experienced grief and had expectations about how long it would last, you may be feeling frustrated, confused or disheartened that it may not yet have dissipated.
In such a short amount of time so much has changed in our world. As a result, we are all having to explore new ways of doing things. Therapy is no different. Although online therapy has been around for a long time, it has become a mainstream form of therapy practically overnight. So how does…
Brain based therapy is fast becoming the approach that many consumers turn to for effective treatment of a variety of issues. When it comes to psychotherapy for issues such as anxiety, PTSD, ADD, OCD, performance enhancement and more, therapy needs to do more than simply improve the way you feel, the experience should be transformative….
Many people struggle to determine how to stop nightmares because sleep is precious and nightmares can be debilitating, impacting work, relationships and physical health. You wake up confused, scared or sad, and to top it off, it can be hard to fall back asleep afterwards. What causes these dreaded sleep interruptions? The causes can be…
The experience of having PTSD symptoms (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) can be overwhelming and frustrating for someone who has experienced a traumatic event. With PTSD, the feelings of anxiety and depression are compounded by being easily triggered into a panic state, having flashbacks and nightmares, and having intrusive thoughts about the event. There may even be…
Are you exhausted because your child won’t sleep? Does your child struggle to fall asleep at night? Have you found yourself in an endless, exhausting bedtime routine with your child and you are unsure of how to break it? There could be a number of reasons why your child struggles to fall asleep or can’t…
The crazy thing about life (one of many) is that very few things are certainties, and very few things are all good or all bad, and yet we label ourselves, label others, judge situations and try to create order in doing so. This process often leads to detrimental negative self-beliefs that keep us stuck in…