Blog Category: Mental Health
Separation Anxiety Disorder in Children
Childhood Separation Anxiety Disorder is different from usual childhood fears due to its intensity that extends beyond appropriate developmental period for a child’s age. When children experience severe anxiety due to separation from their mother or primary care giver they might be feel a strong, persistent and excessive fear or anxiety. Physical symptoms may also…
Why Youth Homelessness Matters
According to Homelessness Australia, there’s a staggering number of homeless young people in Australia. When we think about homeless youths we often think about street kids, drug addicts and runaways. But this is not always the case. Most of the homeless youth aren’t homeless by choice. Domestic issues and family violence and relationships or family…
Diagnosed With Parkinson’s Disease? You’re Not Alone
Parkinson’s Disease affects those between the ages of 50 and 60 but can affect younger people. It often goes unnoticed by everyone including the patient themselves as the symptoms can be very mild at first appearing with a small shake in a hand while it’s resting or can appear as weakness or stiffness in a…
How Pets Can Help Children Develop In Key Areas
According to the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne approximately 80% of Australians have or have owned a pet at some stage during their lifetime. Children can gain benefits that go beyond the physical when caring for animals aiding with development in confidence and self esteem. Pets allow us to make emotional connections. Especially in the case…
The Co-Dependent Rescuer & Enabler
It can start with a well intentioned desire to help, but co-dependent relationships become dysfunctional helping relationships that occur when a person rescues, enables or supports another’s bad behaviour, immaturity, procrastination, underachievement, addiction or poor mental or physical health. The co-dependent often feels compelled to solve other people’s problems and more often than not end up…
Emotional Immaturity Linked to Depression and Anxiety
The main characteristic of emotional maturity is the ability to see life clearly and accurately and to be able to deal with life’s ups and downs in a healthy way. Emotionally mature people are able to control their emotions and take full responsibility for their life and actions along with being able to handle their…
Avoidant Personality Disorder
People with Avoidant Personality Disorder struggle with feelings of inadequacy and extreme shyness. These people are sensitive to rejection and show extreme social inhibition. They are also insecure and feel inadequate. The symptoms of this disorder affect a person’s occupational life and their relationships. People with this disorder appear timid, shy, awkward and lonely. Symptoms…
Supporters Say The DSM-5 Enables Reliable Diagnosis
Those supporting the changes in the DSM-5 have one thing in common, they believe revisions in the new edition have fine-tuned diagnosis capabilities enabling real mental health professionals to reliably diagnose and effectively treat patients affected by psychological problems. In May 2013, the APA – American Psychiatric Association released the DSM-5, approximately 20 years after…
Rascism, Prejudice & Discrimination in Australia
”The Sydney Morning Herald published a story on how Paul Shin and his wife Isabella were brutally bashed at their own business, a general store in Terrigal NSW, by a 17 year old male, who during the attack was repeatedly yelling racist slurs at the couple. Mr Shin was punched in the face and was…
14 New Disorders in the DSM-5
21st century living has contributed to the addition of 14 new Disorders in the DSM-5 The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals around the world. The manual is the guide by which mental health professionals base their diagnosis. Below is a…
Intentional Cruelty & The Psychological Effects Of Abuse
The psychological harm imposed on another human being by acts of cruelty can last many years if not a lifetime. Most of us avoid inflicting pain on anyone, sticking to the unspoken social golden rule to ‘hurt no-one.’ When we hurt another person, we typically begin to feel remorse, we apologise and express regret and sorrow.…
Crystal Meth (ICE) Addiction Ripping Families Apart In Australia
A surge of Ice addiction is sweeping across Australia. Desperate parents are taking drastic measures to protect themselves and to help their Ice addicted teens and adult children who quite often become violent, display erratic and out of control behaviour, steal from the family and in some cases become suicidal. ABC News reported that Senator…
Overeating & The Hidden Dangers of Obesity
Aussie comedian and singing actress Rebel Wilson starred in the comedy musicals, ‘Pitch Perfect” and ‘Pitch perfect 2’playing the role of the likeable ‘Fat Amy’ who’s outspoken and hilarious personality made her an instant hit and role model to countless plus size women around the globe. There’s a stigma around the plus sized and overweight.…
Seeking The Help Of A Marriage Counsellor
We don’t have to wait until a marriage relationship hits rock bottom before seeking the help of a marriage counsellor. They are skilled professionals and trained listeners who are there to help you work out and resolve your problems. What Relationship Counsellors WON’T do 1. Tell you to end your marriage. If you’ve come to…
What Clean Fighting Is Like So You Can Both Win
There are healthy and productive ways to argue that can be constructive towards the relationship if done carefully with love while maintaining a level of respect towards one another. 1.Pray for your spouse The bible makes it clear that we need to pray for those we are in conflict with. “You have heard that it…
Forgiveness – The Cure For Bitterness
Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D. has a really good argument for forgiveness, and in addition provides a five step technique for getting rid of bitterness. The Cure for Bitterness “Virtually every writer who has weighed in on the subject of bitterness has discussed its ultimate remedy in terms of forgiveness. For forgiveness alone enables you to…
Finding The Right Christian Counsellor
Choosing the right counsellor can be a daunting experience if we don’t know what to look for. Just because a person can refer to themselves as a ‘counsellor’ doesn’t mean that the counsellor is trained. People who call themselves ‘A professional counsellor’ must possess the training, the skills & the accredited credentials. Most Christians go…
Annette Spurr – The Power of Gratitude Journaling
We can easily lose sight of the good things we have by simply being too busy. Annette Spurr runs her own business at Blue Box Media and is also the Managing Editor at Mum Daily. As a wife and mother Annette has discovered the power of gratitude journaling. Annette writes, “I used to really enjoy…
Celebrity Worship Syndrome – Why do people do it?
Jamie Foxx whose real name is Eric Marlon Bishop, recently became a hero after the news reported him to be quick on the scene to save the life of a 32 year old man whose car had flipped over & burst into flames after crashing outside of the actor’s home. The Hollywood star and comedian…
Attitudes For Christian Counselling Are Changing Within The Church
Author of, “The Purpose Driven Life” and mega church pastor Rick Warren who founded Saddleback Church with his wife Kay in 1980, told CNN that he hoped to reduce stigma about mental illness after the tragic death of their son. Matthew Warren, who reportedly had a personality disorder, sadly took his own life on April…
The Emotional side of Identity Theft
The Australian Government reported that identity fraud has become the most common, expensive and alarming crime to impact this nation. IDCARE reported 6500 calls in its first six months of operation relating to Identity theft. The majority of these were stolen driver’s licenses. However cyber-crime (criminal activities carried out by means of computers or the…
The Connection Between Our Thoughts, Actions & Overall Health
Negative thoughts and actions have a negative impact on the whole of our being. Dr. Caroline Leaf is a cognitive neuroscientist with a Ph.D. in Communication Pathology specialising in Neuropsychology. In an excerpt from her article, The Perfect You: Wired for Health , she discusses how our thoughts and the choices we make have an…
The Impact Of Stress On The Mind & Body
Stress is linked with a series of physical problems that can come about after impacting on a person’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Nichole Howson Interview About Her Bipolar Disorder
In an interview with aifc, Nichole Howson tells us about how she coped with bipolar disorder when growing up with her family, how her bipolar affected her relationships and how managing her Bipolar Disorder with treatment and counselling has helped her immensely. Nichole is a Christian woman who manages her own business and runs ‘Defying…
