Mary Watkins Counselling

COUNSELLING IN BLACKWOOD & THE SURROUNDING AREAS

Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts

Everyone has intrusive thoughts, and anyone who says they don’t is fibbing. The difference is, for most people they are passing thoughts. But when people like you and I have intrusive thoughts it feels very different, because they constantly repeat and we ruminate upon them and they become stuck in our minds. Some of us […]

Anxiety, Depression and the Dark Side of ‘The Most Wonderful Time of the year.’

Anxiety, Depression and the Dark Side of ‘The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.’ ‘Hate, hate, hate. Hate, hate, hate. Double hate. Loathe entirely!’ (How the Grinch Stole Christmas). I don’t want to sound like The Grinch or Ebenezer Scrooge but as my friends and family know, I’m not a fan of Christmas. […]

Health Anxiety

Health Anxiety Worrying about your health can be a horrible experience, especially when you’ve been back and fore the doctor trying to find out what’s wrong with you, to no avail. Eventually your doctor gets fed up, and unfortunately you can end up with the horrible label of hypochondriac, which means you are excessively worried […]

Impostor Syndrome: The Silent Struggle

What is It? The idea was first researched in 1978 by two psychologists Dr Pauline R Clance and Dr Suzanne A Imes. Based on their research they found it to be more common in women. More recent research has found it to be equally spread between the sexes; up to 70% of us will feel […]

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