As a race, we human beings seem never to be able to get enough of a "good thing". So strong is our desire to revisit a pleasant or exciting experience that we often strive to return again and again to its source. However, that is not always what it seems. "Good things" can provide intense, temporary feelings of elation, high lucidity, or relaxation - and it seems that there is a human inclination to become physically and psychologically addicted to them, but usualy that provides us physical, mental and sociological difficulties.
Whether you are someone who is addicted to one or more particular "good things", such as: alcohol, drugs or sex, and are looking for help to live a healthier, less complicated life, or if you are a concerned relative or friend exploring internet, this website may point you to the help you seek.
A phobia is an excessive or unreasonable fear of an object, place or situation. Simple phobias are fears of specific things such as insects, infections, flying.
Commonly people try to escape, and then to avoid the feared situation wherever possible. This may be fairly easy if the feared object is rarely encountered (e.g. fear of snakes) and avoidance will not therefore restrict the person's life very much. At other times avoiding the feared situation limits their life severely.
Anxieties and phobias can often leave you feeling very isolated and despairing. It is easy to feel that no-one will understand or take your feelings seriously. However, all phobias, panic attacks and anxieties develop because of a reason this can be explored in therapy. We help to formulate a strategic treatment plan, specific to your particular worries. We have a lot of experience in helping eliminate or control phobias / anxieties.
Grief is always deeply painful... The death of a loved one is the most common way we think of loss, but many other significant changes in one's life can involve loss and therefore grief. Everyone experiences loss and grief at some time. The more significant the loss, the more intense the grief is likely to be.
The vast majority of ideas learned in our society about dealing with loss, are not normal, natural, or helpful to people struggling with the incomplete emotions involved with major loss experiences. It is the "intellectualization" of grief that complicates recovery from loss.
Each individual experiences and expresses grief differently. For example, one person may withdraw and feel helpless, while another might be angry and want to take some action. No matter what the reaction, the grieving person needs the support of others.
Separation and Divorce
There are occasions when only unhappiness would ensue for all concerned if a marriage were to continue. However, divorce is never a pleasant experience. The emotions involved before, during and after divorce can be painful, confusing, complex and sometimes frightening. The most difficult situations involve couples who have children or insufficient resources to establish a second residence.
Even when all the legalities are finalised and the people who were once a couple begin to live their separate lives, there is often a period of
adaptation during which pain, loneliness and even regret are experienced quite keenly. Children of the divorced parents have their own adjustments to make, too. Without the care and empathy of each parent, theirs can also be painful and confusing experiences.
Daystar Group offers a
recovery phase during which all family members can begin to adjust to their altered lives and move on to a more serene future.
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Emotions
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Axiety:
Dental Anxiety
Medical Anxiety
Eating Disorders
Anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating and other related disorders - all may be conditions which have their root causes in emotional inner conflict. Although people in modern society are now healthier and heavier than ever before, there is a worrying trend for many - particularly women - to be informed that "small is beautiful"; that to be thin to the point of emaciation
is somehow desirable.
Fear that food will nourish them to the point of trangressing the 'norms' of size and shape as dictated by the media is causing those who are particularly sensitive to this pressure to please and to be good - to deprive themselves of nutrition to the point of severe, chronic illness or death.
Whether you or someone you love is struggling with an inclination to stop eating; to purge or to vomit following a bout of 'binge eating'; to over-eat in the quest for an elusive security or comfort or to exercise the body to the point of exhaustion, it is hoped that we can help you to recognise the warning signs that an eating disorder is developing or, if one has developed, to find the help and support necessary to overcome its harmful effects.
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