Effectively regulating emotions involves developing healthy coping strategies and skills to manage and navigate a wide range of emotions in a balanced and constructive manner. Here are some strategies to help you regulate your emotions effectively: 1. Mindfulness and Awareness: Stress and Anxiety: High levels of stress or chronic anxiety can increase the likelihood of experiencing panic …
I was recently thinking about what we mean when we say the word ‘childlike’. Wonder and curiosity, or a tendency to become hijacked by strong, poorly understood emotions? While the latter may be the case children also tend to be more in tune with their bodies and their ‘felt sense’ (Levine, 1997) than adults. As …
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Illness anxiety disorder, sometimes called hypochondriasis or health anxiety, is worrying excessively that you are or may become seriously ill. You may have no physical symptoms. Or you may believe that normal body sensations or minor symptoms are signs of severe illness, even though a thorough medical exam doesn’t reveal a serious medical condition. You …
Self-harm or deliberate self-harm is where you inflict physical harm on yourself usually in secret and often without anyone else knowing. The most common form of self-harm is skin cutting but it can cover a wide range of behaviours including burning, scratching, biting, banging or hitting your whole body, picking at sores on your skin, …
