
Mental Health conditions that we deal with
Experiencing psychological distress is an aspect being human, no one is bereft of it. Many surmount it with their individual struggle, extraneous insight, community & family help etc.
A few remain entangled in the distress, experience disruptions in their day to day life, perhaps for years, perhaps for decades.
THE DISTRESS CAN MANIFEST AS
ANXIETY
In Existential philosophical frame explainable as ,
DREAD OR MOOD STATE OF THE HUMAN BEING OR
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM AND POSSIBILITY
or as Soren Kierkegaard puts it
THE DIZZYNESS OF FREEDOM
In psychology terms anxiety can be framed as
'THREAT-RESPONSE INFLEXIBILITY'
or in CBT terms
'THE OVERESTIMATION OF THREAT AND UNDERESTIMATION OF COPING'
DEPRESSION
In Existential Frame explainable as,
CRISIS OF MEANING, FREEDOM & AUTHENTICITY.
In CBT terms, explainable as a self-perpetuating cycle of NEGATIVE THOUGHTS & DISTRESSING EMOTIONS.
A KIND OF ESTRANGEMENT FROM THE SELF
&
SEVERE RESTRICTION OF WORLD VIEW
TRAUMA
About 8 million people in Britain suffer anxiety disorders and it costs the country £10 billion a year.
BEREAVEMENT
About 350 million people worldwide suffer from depression. 4 to 10 % people in the UK suffer depression.
These figures are staggering and the Anxiety-Depression co-morbidity is causing serious problems both in the community and at the workplace. From a philosophical standpoint we understand that anxiety cannot be eliminated from our existence and as one kind of anxiety is assuaged, another one will surface however its incapacitating aspect can be controlled after a specific kind of attitude to life is embraced. In these days of economic belt-tightening, manpower trimming, business disruptions, threat of redundancies and overall employment uncertainties, people remain enslaved to their job, excessively stretch themselves and plough through as their sense of well-being, financial sustenance and identity seems to be locked with the job. This is bound to create high stress and hypervigilance. The driven lot, attempt to mask their anxiety and intensify their toil. A few others are unable to manage it and over time lose hope and plunge into despair or even depression.
CONDITIONS THAT WE DEAL WITH
anxiety
GENERALISED ANXIETY
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Undirected fear
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Persistent dread
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Acute stress
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Chronic worry about future, career, finance, work
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Exaggerated sense of threat
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Panic attack, alarm, fright
OCD
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Intrusive thoughts
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Retroactive Jealousy
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Compulsions (washing, cleaning, hoarding, arranging etc.)
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Perfection urge
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Scrupulosity (Religious OCD)
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Fear of contamination
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Body dysmorphia
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Symmetry and ordering
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Hoarding
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Skin Excoriation
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Body focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB), Tics & Tourette.
PHOBIAS
SOCIAL /RELATIONSHIP ANXIETY
HEALTH ANXIETY (Hypochondriasis)
DEPRESSION
MAJOR DEPRESSION (MDD)
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Persistent & Recurrent
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Manic Depression
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Situational Depression
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Melancholic Depression
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Seasonal Affective
BIPOLAR DEPRESSION
MELANCHOLIC DEPRESSION
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Static & low moods
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Vegetative signs
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Abdication of interest
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Depleted energy
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Deep despair
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Apathy to positive news
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Chronic
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Mild & persistent
DYSTHYMIA (PDD)
LOW SELF-ESTEEM (LSE)
(a core symptom of depression)
(AA
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The over achiever (the imposter), the perfectionist.
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The defeatist (the rebel or underachiever)
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The people pleaser (the helper)
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Situational Low self esteem
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Chronic low self esteem
trauma
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Developmental trauma
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Cumulative trauma
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Repetitive trauma
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Secondary trauma
ACUTE TRAUMA
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War/ torture/ terrorism
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Police action
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Natural disaster
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Domestic violence
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Abuse: Neglect, physical, emotional, sexual
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Accident, untimely death
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Medical procedures
OTHER TRAUMA
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Divorce/Separation
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Witnessing trauma
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Transgenerational trauma
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Bankruptcy
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Relationship strain
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Isolation & loneliness
CATEGORISATION BY SOURCE
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Cyber trauma (online harassment)
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Institutional Trauma (betrayal- fails to protect employee)
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Whistleblower trauma
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Workplace trauma
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Enmeshment & Parentification.
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Microaggressive (daily invalidation).
BEREAVEMENT
LOSS OF A LOVED ONE
UNEXPRESSED LOSSES
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Sudden & traumatic death
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Terminally ill & anticipatory grief
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Disenfranchised death (socially unacceptable)
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Complicated & unresolved grief
AMBIGUOUS LOSS
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Loss of a pet
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Loss due to Alzheimer's, dementia to loved ones
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Loss to invalidation
ABSENT GRIEF
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Putting grief on hold
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Distraction as coping
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Appearing robust
NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL CONDITIONS
&
COMPLEX MENTAL HEALTH ILLNESSES
WE DEAL WITH
adhd
For Adults + CYP
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Predominantly inattentive presentation
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Predominantly hyperactive- impulsive presentation
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Combined presentation.
WHAT WE ADDRESS
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Attention and focus
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Increase concentration
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Executive dysfunction
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Procrastination & Task initiation
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Time blindedness
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Disorganization
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Memory failures
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Impulsivity & distraction
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Cognitive restructuring
UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN MIND
WE POSESS THE RELEVANT CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE WHICH IS APPENDED WITH OUR SPECIALISED APPERCEPTIVE PROGRAMS
WE HANDLE BOTH MEDIUM TO MODERATE AS WELL AS SEVERE END OF THE CLINICAL SPECTRUM.

PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH
Headstride's approach to clinical presentations is hermeneutical (relating to interpretation) and phenomenological (study of conscious expereince) and not from a disorder standpoint.
We go for the observed phenomena, a direct investigation and description of experience in contrast to causal and unexamined presuppositions and meanings.
FOR THIS WE USE EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ROUTES.
SELF-CONTROL IS SOMETHING FOR WHICH I DO NOT STRIVE.
SELF-CONTROL MEANS WANTING TO BE EFFECTIVE AT SOME RANDOM POINT IN THE INFINITE RADIATIONS OF MY SPIRITUAL EXISTENCE.
- Franz Kafka
