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Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a brain-driven condition that is characterised by excessive obsessive thoughts, urges or images which are distressing and generating huge anxiety in the process. These obsessions are often accompanied by debilitating compulsive behaviours/mental acts as as the psychic attempt to stay in control and ‘ward off’ the evil of one’s obsessions. But does that mean you’re crazy if you have OCD? What are the scientific findings on OCD that can help us find relief and greater will-power to gradually move towards recovery? This is what this short video is all about.
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If you are anxious about feeling anxious, your nervous system will interpret this as a fresh threat that requires more activation of your fight/flight response. That means more anxiety symptoms for you to deal with. You can see how we can easy get locked in the vicious cycle of the fight /flight/freeze experience, along with its debilitating somatic symptoms. In this clip, I share some important things to be aware of about anxiety to ensure your inner resilience and overall mental wellbeing, while protecting you from feeling anxious about anxiety.
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Anxiety is a natural survival energy that can become toxic and debilitating if we’ve been overly exposed to traumatic experiences or chronic stress in the past. In this clip, you will learn three things that you can start to do immediately to rewire your anxious brain.
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Childhood insecure attachment has been known for decades to negatively affect children outcomes in life. Humans are creatures of relationships. Our brain depends on the nurturing, compassionate and safe environment to complete its full development. If a child misses out on a secure-base and emotionally attuned relationship with the primary care-giver, substitute attachment relationships may be sought subconsciously later in life (such as addictions) as a way of self-regulating. Early interactions between infants and primary carers stimulate the development of our reward, stress and emotional regulatory systems. If these systems fail to fully develop in childhood, we become increasingly dependent on the external sources to help us regulate stress and negative emotions. This of course can lead to a cascade of negative coping behaviours and psychopathological issues such as depression, anxiety, substance misuse and other forms of addictions. Humans cannot exist without bonding. Bonding seems to be more important to our survival that any negative consequences of bad bonding. In other words, as far as your survival brain is concerned, it is safer to be in a bad company than to be all by yourself and alone. This probably explains a lot of issues that we have today in our societies; from addictions to gang-cultures. But for us to heal, we still have to use the same law of bonding. This time around, we choose someone or a social support system that can positively re-nurture our neural pathways for greater resilience an emotional regulation. In this short clip, I share how we can help complete the brain development in adulthood that might have been suspended due to early stress. Some certain things can be done to help stimulate the innate capacity of the brain to rewire itself for greater social engagement, resilience and innate emotional regulation.
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Depression is a brain-driven, biochemical condition that affects key neurotransmitters involved in motivation, pleasure, mood and cognition. If you suffer from depression, your brain is heavily involved in your depressive symptoms. This means that you cannot blame yourself for your inability to feel pleasure, think straight or self-motivate. Feelings of guilt, shame, hopelessness, uselessness, self-criticism, self-condemnation and self-mutilation are typical in major depressive episodes, but this must be put in context that can stimulate recovery and not truncate it. In this short video, I share a few things you must know to initiate your recovery journey.
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Anxiety is a physiological state of survival that can be extremely debilitating. In dealing with anxiety, however, the key insights that can initiate better management and coping skills might be simpler than you think. It turns out that it begins with right understanding. In this short clip, I share 3 things you should be aware of in order to deal with anxiety more effectively.
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Anxiety is actually your friend, your ancient survival friend, and not your enemy. While life’s negative experiences may readapt the anxiety centre to work harder than normal and get mistaken for a foe, it does not have to stay like that and permanently become the boss of the psyche. In this short video, I share how you can initiate a healthy reconditioning process for your ancient friend – anxiety.
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Here, I answer one of the commonly asked questions on anxiety; ‘Do I have anxiety?’ Anxiety is a natural survival energy, but if mobilised too much it can wreak havoc within our emotional, physical and mental states.
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What is Anxiety? In this video, I share about what anxiety is, anxiety symptoms and what you can start to do immediately to develop a healthy relationship with your anxiety centre for anxiety recovery, mental wellness and emotional resilience.
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Humans are creatures of relationships. Without supportive and loving others around us, the human mind cannot survive long. Neonates maladapt in the absence of emotionally attuned and available primary care-givers. Likewise, adults can fall apart when the most important relationships in their world become irreparable. It’s been said that almost all psychiatric/psychological disorders began as a relationship problem; be it the love totally withheld, conditionally given or a substitute relationship with addictive substances, such as alcohol, drugs, gambling, and so on.
The quality of your close relationships decides your mental wellness or stress. In fact, relationship is thought to account for over 80% of our happiness in life. According to the Pareto principle, 20% of your most important relationships in life accounts for 80% of your happiness; while 80% of your problems will be linked to 20% of the most difficult people in the circle of your relationships. Of course, not everybody is bad and even great relationships can go through patches of connection-rupture. Humans are fallible and therefore can fall out of an important relationship that is meant to be evergreen, ever-relevant and ever-supportive.
To this end, how do you repair an important broken relationship in your life? How do you ensure that you do not unnecessarily suffer for long a consequence of an important relationship rupture that could actually be salvaged? This is the reason for this short talk. In this video, I share five steps for repairing an important relationship in your life that is currently broken, so that you can move on and enjoy your life to the full, along with those whose relationships matter tremendously to your joy.
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