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by Gary Turner
Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:14 pm
Forum: general Mental Health questions
Topic: depression
Replies: 4
Views: 4949

Re: depression

My pleasure!

Don't worry about pleasing me - you're the most important person in your life, time to put yourself first. Time to please yourself ;)
by Gary Turner
Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:49 pm
Forum: general Mental Health questions
Topic: depression
Replies: 4
Views: 4949

Re: depression

Hey Chelsea, hope you are well. I feel for you!! Please have a read of my other posts here - particulary in respect to the PTSD and stress posts - there is a information there which will help you understand how you are right now. Well, the 'structure' of it anyway. Again, you've learnt to be this wa...
by Gary Turner
Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:37 am
Forum: stress & anxiety
Topic: Advice on Coping with Stress
Replies: 3
Views: 4194

Re: Advice on Coping with Stress

Hi, Stress is fatigue of the mind and/or body brought on by prolonged anxiety. Anxiety is a mood, the overal experience of the emotion of fear. The emotion in the brain, the feeling created in the body, and the cognition as it hits our thoughts and awareness. Fear is the unknown. The "what if's...
by Gary Turner
Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:16 am
Forum: self-harm
Topic: Why doesn't it hurt?
Replies: 3
Views: 4460

Re: Why doesn't it hurt?

Hi Tina, Pain is a perception. All pain is real, but all pain is a perception. Our nerve endings (nociceptors) detect heat and pressure and send this signal up your nerve lines to your mind where the 'perception' of pain is formed. Pain is a subjective experience. There are two main ways in which we...
by Gary Turner
Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:03 am
Forum: general Mental Health questions
Topic: disorientation / dizzyness
Replies: 3
Views: 4038

Re: disorientation / dizzyness

Hi, hope you are nice and calm, relaxed, breathing gently and with a nice clear head!! Anxiety is a mood, an 'overall experience' of emotion. Something will set off the emotion of fear, which is just an electro-chemical spark in the brain. This brings about real physiological changes in our body. We...
by Gary Turner
Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:57 am
Forum: general Mental Health questions
Topic: PTSD treatment
Replies: 3
Views: 2911

Re: PTSD treatment

Hi Butterfly, hope you are really well despite everything that's going on. Because I have so many friends in the Army I am always being referred PTSD clients (so that it doesn't appear on their Army records, in some circles it is seen as a 'black mark' on a record, though to be perfectly honest it c...
by Gary Turner
Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:30 am
Forum: general Mental Health questions
Topic: High Blood Pressure
Replies: 2
Views: 3062

Re: High Blood Pressure

Hi, hope you are well and things have returned a little more normal for you! There could be any number of reasons why you have felt this way - and I would recommend that you get yourself fully checked out by a suitably experienced and qualified medical practitioner. It could be of course that there ...
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