Many people make contact with Birmingham Counselling Services because they are feeling depressed. Depression is not one simple, easy to recognise complaint, like a broken leg. It is an illness can affect your entire life. If you are suffering from depression, you could be finding it difficult to perform your normal every day activities, such […]
Are you really worried about what to do for Valentine’s Day this year? Are you trying to find something really special because you feel things are not going very well with your partner at the moment? Arguments are blowing up out of nowhere, and you are left at the end feeling hurt and wondering what […]
Continue Reading...Sometimes people get in touch with Birmingham Counselling Services feeling stressed, anxious and even guilty because the holiday season is a pproaching and they find themselves dreading it. You might remember the day Santa Claus brought you your first bicycle. It was the most beautiful thing you had ever seen. You could hardly believe that […]
Continue Reading...People who get in touch with Birmingham Counselling Services often bring stress as one of their issues, and ask for help in dealing with it. What can come as a surprise is learning that we all need a certain level of stress in order to function efficiently – adrenalin is an important element of our […]
Continue Reading...We all recognise the feeling that we are running out of day or week or year with only half our commitments and intentions being addressed. Running out of time is a common cause of excessive stress. Learning to manage your time will help you to organise you home, work and social priorities in a realistic […]
Continue Reading...We all need self-confidence. It can give us the courage to face difficult situations which those of us who lack self-confidence are often unable to do. One of the most frequent reasons people give for approaching Birmingham Counselling Services is that their low self-esteem is making their lives painful and difficult. The question, of course, […]
Continue Reading...Nowadays most of us are familiar with the idea that life events cause stress and that stress can cause illness. The original work in this area was done in 1967 by two US psychiatrists, Drs Holmes and Rahe, whose research led to the establishment of a correlation between the experience of certain life events and […]
Continue Reading...Sometimes when an enquiry comes in to Birmingham Counselling Services, it has taken all the enquirer’s emotional strength to get in touch, because of their low self-esteem. They can hardly believe that anyone can care about them enough to want to give them any help. Self-esteem, how you feel about yourself and how you […]
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