Psychological Therapy is More Important Than You Think

Psychotherapy, also known as talk therapy, is conducted by a mental health therapist and is aimed at helping individuals who suffer from a wide range of mental illnesses and emotional problems. Psychotherapy helps individuals who face difficulties in coping with everyday routine activities, suffer from post-traumatic stress, stress arising from an existing chronic health disease, loss of a loved one, violence or domestic abuse, or specific mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, mood disorders, eating disorders etc. There are several different types of psychotherapy, and it has been concluded through a series of research methods that some methods work better than others. As a part of counselling psychology and clinical psychology therapy is a very important aspect used in combination with medication. This combination of therapy and medication can play a pivoting role in eliminating and controlling symptoms that can restore a healthy level of functioning of an individual and p...

For a country that has a fairly high urban literacy rate, India still remains fairly clueless about something like therapy. This is mainly because of the stigmas that have been deeply ingrained within us when it comes to therapy and mental health related issues. There is a need to address these myths at a fundamental level to truly make a difference. Let's look at some of the most common misconceptions that people still have when it comes to psychology therapy . One of the biggest myths associated with therapy has to do with the thought that therapy is only for those people who are suffering from serious mental issues. Granted that mentally unwell individuals do need extensive therapy but the concept in general has evolved and expanded so much to the point where it works for everyone. Depending on the kind of lifestyle you lead and the problems you face, therapy can in fact offer solutions for all so us. The concept of a family therapist is proof that a therapist can don ma...

In this roller coaster of life, we all have our ups and downs. As we grow from children, to adolescent to adults, we all learn some important life lessons. Some experiences are to teach us a lesson that we aren’t going to learn academically. We all carry our own baggage of pain and hurt but life goes on and going with the flow is what we can do the least. Learn from the ugly past to make a beautiful present is what many philosophers believe in. But can that happen if we aren’t able to handle ourselves properly. For the outer world we maybe someone who is cheerful and filled with life, but inside, we might hurting so much that it can’t even be expressed to anybody. As the years go by, we tend to lock some feelings and some incidents up in a box somewhere behind our mind and throw the key away. But there comes a time when this box breaks and all emotions come out as a major flooding. If such a situation arrives where you feel completely helpless and feel as though you have hit ...

We all have our issues in daily lives. Be it in relationships, at work or in our career. There are going to be complications and confusions in every field and in every aspect. And of course the path to the solution is never easy, especially if one is going through anxiety depression . For a person who is just sad, there are many ways to cope up with the temporary sadness. But imagine being sad all the time. When you are plain sad, there is a reason behind it. But depression is worse, because it is a feeling of constantly being sad, without even knowing the actual reason. There is a feeling of emptiness inside which no matter what you do, does not seem to get filled. Anxiety is another issue that is face by a large part of the population. Anxiety is a condition of constant worry and fear that are enough to meddle with a person’s daily routine. Panic attack, OCDs are some examples of the same. It definitely is not a pleasant state to be in. Imagine being stuck in a miserable loop...

There comes a time in each of our lives when we go through some life changing moments that are not necessarily good. These event or events cause some changes in our behaviour and the way we look at the world. This results into depression and though many people ignore it completely, depression is a serious condition and should be treated with care and proper guidance. When someone we know has to deal with a death of someone close to them or deal with events that drastically alter their lifestyle we ignore it thinking of it as some temporary issue. This is something that should not be ignored as the person going through it might be suffering clinical depression. Changes in sleep schedules, insomnia, irregular eating habits and drastic changes in weight are some of the signs of depression. A person going through depression is damaged and broken from the inside and needs depression help to cope up with even the most simple of tasks in life. A person suffering through depression lo...

Every day there is one new article talking about relationships and how to handle and get a healthy relationship with your partner. There are different therapists and psychologists who are writing columns for the couples out there so that they can stay with each other as soul mates and live a happy life. All this is going on because every day in the news there is one or two stories about some couple getting divorced or breaking up. All this happens mostly in the city because of a busy lifestyle and lot of stress in mind and that leads to a lot of fights between couples. And to tackle with such problems, people have come up with the solution. Couple therapy in Mumbai is a way that people use to stay with each other as a couple and never get apart. The busy lifestyle affects a lot but they try that it does not affect the relationships.  Various kinds of psychology therapy is available too which help to bond well and lead a happy life. The therapies are designed in such ...

This is new generation or also called the generation ‘Z’ is highly competitive. It is very difficult to cope up with the extreme level of speed of life of this new generation. As many movies have shown the true side of this generation and the effects of this lifestyle on them. The people who are a little slow are sometimes thrown out of this rat race. Those guys get depressed. They leave hope of anything in life. They never want to try again because they are scared of a failure yet again. These kinds of depressions are highly harmful as sometimes people take extreme steps to get out of it. This depression can be treated very easily. They need a little depression help . This helps them to get their strength back. They start to try to get on their feet quickly and they again start running. They get highly motivated. It is not a madness problem or anything. This kind of depressions happen to everyone in a certain amount. This can be treated and is perfectly normal. Little psyc...