When I started in private practice, I thought that it was just a matter of getting myself on a directory listing, and waiting for people to call. I discovered there was much, much more to it than that! Building up my practice has been a steep learning curve, which I offer an insight into, in my article "trial by fire" on Linkedin.
I remember thinking that people's worlds must all be slightly different from each other, depending on who they were and where they were. I remember thinking that each person had their own separate world, and it almost made me dizzy. I had a black dog, his name was depression was created by Matthew Johnstone in collaboration with WHO. The video he created and uploaded onto youtube has been seen by more than 6 million people. The story is driven by metaphor to a moving transformation in the final scene.
There were times I felt really low and didn’t know how much longer I could carry on living in daily fear. I never considered that colouring might help me, until I remembered a time it had. In my previous article Mindfulness & Safety, I looked at practical ways to stay safe while doing mindfulness. In this article I am going to take an in-depth look at the relationship between mindfulness and dissociation, which is associated with traumatic experiences.
Bowker, who taught children with learning disabilities for 14 years, captures the frustrations of Joe and his family beautifully. What the drama lacks, though, so far is humour and irreverence. Yes, Christopher Eccleston’s Granddad’s inappropriate comments are funny but Joe himself, played with perfect opaqueness by Max Vento, never even makes you smile. Most parents find their autistic kids really funny – sometimes because they mean to be, and sometimes because their lack of social niceties is hilarious. 'Black dog' is one of the common metaphors people use to gain a better understanding of depression. In this 300 word article, I take a look out how 'black dog' can help us cope.
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