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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

  • Undirected fear 

  • Persistent dread

  • Acute stress

  • Chronic worry about future, career, finance, work

  • Exaggerated sense of threat

  • Panic attack, alarm, fright 

OCD

  • Intrusive thoughts

  • Retroactive Jealousy

  • Compulsions (washing, cleaning, hoarding, arranging etc.)

  • Perfection urge

  • Scrupulosity (Religious OCD) 

  • Fear of contamination

  • Body dysmorphia

  • Symmetry and ordering

  • Hoarding

  • Skin Excoriation

  • Body focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB), Tics & Tourette.

PHOBIAS

SOCIAL /RELATIONSHIP ANXIETY 

HEALTH ANXIETY (Hypochondriasis) 

DEPRESSION 

MAJOR DEPRESSION (MDD) 

  • Persistent & Recurrent 

  • Manic Depression 

  • Situational Depression

  • Melancholic Depression

  • Seasonal Affective

BIPOLAR DEPRESSION

MELANCHOLIC DEPRESSION

  • Static & low moods 

  • Vegetative signs

  • Abdication of interest

  • Depleted energy 

  • Deep despair

  • Apathy to positive news

  • Chronic

  • Mild & persistent

DYSTHYMIA (PDD)

LOW SELF-ESTEEM (LSE)
(
a core symptom of depression)

(AA

  • The over achiever (the imposter), the perfectionist.

  • The defeatist (the rebel or underachiever)

  • The people pleaser (the helper)

  • Situational Low self esteem

  • Chronic low self esteem​​

trauma

  • Developmental trauma

  • Cumulative trauma

  • Repetitive trauma

  • Secondary trauma 

ACUTE TRAUMA 

  • War/ torture/ terrorism

  • Police action 

  • Natural disaster

  • Domestic violence

  • Abuse: Neglect, physical, emotional, sexual

  • Accident, untimely death

  • Medical procedures

OTHER TRAUMA

  • Divorce/Separation

  • Witnessing trauma

  • Transgenerational trauma

  • Bankruptcy

  • Relationship strain

  • Isolation & loneliness

CATEGORISATION BY SOURCE 

  • Cyber trauma (online harassment)

  • Institutional Trauma (betrayal- fails to protect employee)

  • Whistleblower trauma

  • Workplace trauma

  • Enmeshment & Parentification. 

  • Microaggressive (daily invalidation).

BEREAVEMENT

LOSS OF A LOVED ONE 

UNEXPRESSED LOSSES

  • Sudden & traumatic death

  • Terminally ill & anticipatory grief 

  • Disenfranchised death (socially unacceptable)

  • Complicated & unresolved grief

AMBIGUOUS LOSS

  • Loss of a pet

  • Loss due to Alzheimer's, dementia to loved ones

  • Loss to invalidation

ABSENT GRIEF

  • Putting grief on hold 

  • Distraction as coping

  • Appearing robust 

NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL CONDITIONS
&
COMPLEX MENTAL HEALTH ILLNESSES


WE DEAL WITH 

autism

For Adults + CYP

  • Level 1 Autism (Aspergers /High Functioning). 

  • PDA- Persistent/Pathological Demand Avoidance 

  • Alexithymia

Autism with Comorbidity

  • PTSD

  • Social Anxiety

  • Low Self Esteem

  • OCD

  • ADHD

adhd

For Adults + CYP

  • Predominantly inattentive presentation 

  • Predominantly hyperactive- impulsive presentation

  • Combined presentation. 

WHAT WE ADDRESS

  • Attention and focus

  • Increase concentration

  • Executive dysfunction

  • Procrastination & Task initiation

  • Time blindedness

  • Disorganization 

  • Memory failures

  • Impulsivity & distraction 

  • Cognitive restructuring 

psychosis

  • Persecutory delusions

  • Auditory Command Hallucinations (Voice hearing)

  • Visual Hallucinations

  • Schizophrenia

  • Schizoaffective

  • Major depressive disorder with psychotic features

  • Disorganized thinking

  • Grandiose delusions

BIPOLAR

  • Bipolar I

  • Bipolar II

  • Cyclothymia 

  • Core mood episodes: Mania, Hypomania, Major Depression, Euthymia

  • Bipolar with psychotic features. 

Bipolar with Comorbidity

  • PTSD

  • Anxiety 

  • Low Self Esteem

  • OCD

  • ADHD

  • BPD (borderline personality)

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

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