What I Wish I’d Known About Antidepressants
In 2018 a serious relationship breakdown smashed head first into an existential/midlife crisis, which then careered into the path of an underlying anxiety problem. What crawled from the wreckage was a fairly broken shell of a human, pretty close to breaking. It was at this point I went to my GP and reluctantly asked to […]
Understanding Your Personality
Ever since the existential crisis that felled me in the first half of 2018, I have gratefully accepted any opportunity to discover it’s cause. A series of events had led me to a precipice of negative emotion. A precipice that appeared, at times, to have only one way down. Thankfully I didn’t have the means […]
Why Your Mindset is Key to Improving your Wellbeing
Carol S Dweck Ph D identified 2 basic mindsets in her book “Mindset, the new psychology of success.” The Stanford psychologist put forward 2 diametrically opposed sets of assumptions and beliefs that people generally hold about themselves. Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset. People with a Fixed Mindset believe that their character, intelligence and creative ability […]