I’ve been pulling my hair out for 15 years or to put it another way, half my life. It feels like I’ve tried every textbook piece of advice and the longest I’ve been successful for is one hour. Then three days ago I stopped just like that. The first problem was that I would pull […]
Staying Motivated
Motivation is a topic that frequently came up in my CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) sessions. Despite the plethora of professional advice I received on the topic and desperately wanting to overcome OCD, I continued to struggle to muster up enough motivation to actually tackle the OCD. Recently I felt like I became much more motivated […]
Getting Motivated
I woke up one morning and felt a tremendous surge of anxiety take a tight grip for an hour, leaving me feeling shook up for the rest of the day. It followed a very enjoyable night out with friends, so I would have expected to wake up feeling happy, not in a state of utter […]
My Experience Of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a form of therapy often used to treat depression, anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), as well as other conditions. Whilst I have a degree in Psychology, I am not a trained psychologist and this is written purely as an account of my personal experience as a patient tackling anxiety […]