How Do We Manage Ourselves When Our World is Upside Down? The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has predicated terms like “unprecedented”, “never before experienced”, extraordinary", "unimaginable", "unmatched" and “very challenging”, and there is certainly unanimous agreement that it is a changing landscape on a daily basis and it appears to be completely unpredictable with uncertainty about how […]
Category: Mental Health
Generally these days, you don't have to go far to hear people refer to someone as a narcissist. It could be socially at a party or gathering, it could be in the staff room at the workplace or it could be around the family table. The term is now relatively common place in our language. […]
Origins of the Term "Gaslighting" is a term that has nothing to do with how we used to light our street corners and our homes. Nothing of the sort. Instead, the term originates from the play by Patrick Hamilton in 1938 called "Gas Light" together with the film adaptations in 1940 and 1944 which demonstrated […]
Whenever you move from the present and think or worry about the future, you can expect to experience anxiety. You get "stressed". Maybe you start to feel fear. You get apprehensive, become unsure or uncertain. In other words, anxiety fills the gap between the now and the future. The reason you feel stressed happens is […]
We all have a tendency now and again to blow our top and rant and rave. Things just get too much and we really let off steam. As it happens, where we seem to get angry most often is with members of our family. Anger though, like all emotions, is a natural human response, but […]
Explore the role Artificial Intelligence might play in psychology. Jeremy Sutton, Ph.D. surveys 5 examples of A.I in psychology at Positive Psychology. "The first chatbot, ELIZA, was created by MIT’s Joseph Weizenbaum as long ago as 1966. Named after Eliza Doolittle from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, this early conversational software imitated a psychotherapist..." Source: https://positivepsychology.com/artificial-intelligence-in-psychology/
Covid brought us lots of anxiety because of the significant change it brought to our lives. Brian Rosner writes for the ABC web page on how nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, can help. It's a great peace on speaking the good news of Jesus into the public square--and providing help for our anxieties. "As the […]
Dr Jenny Brown, a counsellor and founder of the Family Systems Institute in Sydney, has written a book called, Growing Yourself Up, How to bring your best to all of Life’s Relationships. Jenny says, "You need to look at yourself and give up putting energy into trying to change others or blame others or complain […]
To succeed in any challenging workplace you will need resilience. But, what is resilience, how do you develop it. A young worker takes us on a journey where his faith informs his resilience.
One of the most common patterns from previous disasters whether it’s bushfires or tsunamis is that once the immediate threat is passed, governments and agencies often neglect the longer term mental health toll. This article tries to unravel some of the long terms impacts on mental health from Covid.
In a post COVID world it’s important to look for the signs that your work colleagues may be struggling. Facial expressions that are different, communication dropping, less productivity and regularly complaining they are tired are all indicators they might need a helping hand .
We can always be negative when looking at what is happening in the world. Pessimism can impact our health and even life expectancy. Natasha Moore with ABC News gives ideas to combat personal and cultural pessimism.
