Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) affects around 40% of the population every winter. For a person suffering with SAD it can be debilitating and make the winter months seem never-ending.
Here you can learn about SAD and how it can be treated. There are things that you can do to help yourself as well as professional support available to manage and indeed overcome it.
In this article Veena Ugargol, who is a Yoga Therapist for Mental Health and Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, summarises some fascinating research on mindfulness, compassion and kindness. By practicing the skills that underpin wellbeing, we can learn be better at it, just as we do any newly learned skill.
At some point in our lives, we all suffer from worries and changes in our mood which may effect our overall happiness. Therapy involves getting an understanding of the reasons and makes a clear plan for working towards feeling good again.
This article aims to give you the green light for accessing therapy.
For some, thoughts can generate a great deal of negative emotion and can become pesky and persistent. Learning that they are all ‘just thoughts’ and that you can let the control over them go, despite the feeling they generate in you, can feel like a liberating life skill. You can’t stop them from appearing, but you can stop them from bothering you
