Vanity is a pretty unattractive characteristic and we’ve probably all come across smug individuals who have a superiority complex that manifests itself in a way that only allows them to feel better about themselves if they can make negative comparisons with others. Hence the reference in the title of this article to the catch phrase… Read More
A couple of weeks ago we published an article on the topic of financial well-being and just a few days ago on our Facebook page we asked the question, financial well-being or financial status – you decide? Well-being is important to us here at MHD. In our previous article we began exploring some steps you… Read More
An argument rages – do we become depressed when we reduce our activity or do we reduce our activity when we become depressed? And as many of our enlightened readers will already be thinking the truth is both somewhere between and beyond those two debating points. What we can be confident in thinking is that… Read More
Whenever we ask people what activities or groups of activities improve the mood we invariably get a consensus that exercise is very beneficial. It seems that almost as many people feel that exercises is just as good for mental health as it is for physical health. But is it true? Superficially we can quickly suggest,… Read More
What is financial well-being? As my careers teacher at school once told our class “Money on its own will not make you happy; but the lack of it can make you miserable.” And he was absolutely right. Most people, not unreasonably, make the assumption that the more money you have then the more content you… Read More
In the first part of this series we began identifying what thinking errors are and how they affect us. In this article we will explore further three classic thinking errors, how we can be easily troubled them, blow things all out of proportion and drive our anxiety higher and higher. It is extremely common to… Read More
Thinking errors are the distortions that most of us make when evaluating information that affects us on a personal level. When made, we mistake these errors for a realistic evaluation of the situation and they go on to fuel the emotions and drive us further away from logic. Unfortunately, the stronger we feel about something,… Read More
Depressive disorders remain a significant cause of mental health and disability issues in most of the world and although treatments have come on in leaps and bounds over the last few decades there does remain much room for improvement. Some people with depression are resistant to currently available treatments both pharmaceutical and psychotherapeutic and others… Read More
Bullying has been in the news recently (again) and it seems just as hard to stop now as it has ever been. FB has shown pictures of children with head wounds and we’ve even seen football managers engaging in disgraceful behaviour towards reporters. It’s an age old problem. Here at MHD we wrote a book… Read More
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