Much anxiety can be understood as intense fluctuation between engagement and avoidance.
Category: Managing your mental health
Recovering from anxiety and depression
When you’re experiencing anxiety or depression, it can seem impossible to escape. Here are a few tips for rebalancing yourself.
Projection: why do we push away responsibility?
When we project, we push the responsibility for our being onto someone else. We do it to avoid suffering. But, in fact, we end up losing touch with reality, and creating more suffering.
Choose quiet action over resentment
Whenever we feel hard done by or in pain, we have a simple choice. We can get stuck in resentment, or we can embark upon a positive action, however small.
The uncooperative mind
We have great intentions, but untamed minds. The art of counselling is to work with honesty and subtlety to harness the mind, and re-engage with the world afresh.
Finding the motivation to carry on
Lack of motivation is a key symptom of depression. Although depression has many causes we can’t control, we can certainly learn to help ourselves.
