IntegrativeMindfulnessBasedTherapy

Just like the stomach, the brain also has its bad days. When the stomach isn’t fed healthy and nutritious meals for a long span, it is bound to get upset. And so, we head to the physician for treatment.   Similarly, if the brain isn’t fed the right things in the form of self-love and relationships, the brain is bound to react, and that reaction is known as depression. Then, why are we scared to get treated? We have made depression into a taboo, something whose news should not cross the walls of our home. Parents, whose kids are suffering through depression, are unable to understand its seriousness and take it to be another teenage or high school problem.  Recent studies have revealed that up to 15% of children and adolescents have shown symptoms of depression. It could be due to peer pressure, family problems, changing hormone levels, studies, social media, and various other factors. It isn’t something the child can easily snap out of or forget after sociali...

A family is where our roots are, a family is from where it all starts!  A family is a place from where we learn our very first life lessons. Whether a kinship or a guardian family, it influences every small or big aspect of our lives. Our habits, rituals, interactions and the way we perceive the world outside is learned with and from them. Schools and communities come much later; it’s the family that conditions and shapes us from the very beginning. If we are brought up in a happy and healthy family atmosphere, it is bound to reflect in our interactions and how we ultimately shape up. Children brought up under healthy atmospheres grow up to be the adults who forge healthy and sound relationships. On the flip side, if one is brought up a dysfunctional family, there will always be struggle involved while trusting and connecting with the outside world. Though the latter indeed is an unfortunate situation, it can be worked upon and set right with the inclusion of an ...

A young mind is impressionable and each incident can engrave a psychological pattern in them. They learn from experiences, just like we all do. But what they cannot do at this age frame is to understand what is right and what is wrong. And if their understanding of the world goes undetected, their behaviour pattern can spiral in downwards into the hellish manoeuvre. Children are not born antisocial unless there is a genetic flaw that makes them unable to feel empathy. But children can grow to become defensive, aggressive and abusive with each untoward incident. Instances of abuse can greatly change the way a child behaves and interacts with the world. And since most of the cases of abuse come from someone they know, they hesitate to trust people who truly care for them.    We can bring about a change in this toxic pattern with the help of therapists. They will unravel each and every piece and try to fix it with your child. They have a high responsibility of sewing up ...

It is good to be neurotic in healthy amounts. It has always kept us safe and helped us in strategising for unfortunate outcomes. But too much of it always activates our brain to get into flight or fight mode. While you cannot physically fight work stress, you need to strengthen your mind to punch anxiety to the core. Worrying about something is good till the time it helps you to think about possible solutions and springs you to action. Endless worrying loops you into anxiety and in many cases, anxiety becomes chronic. And that can only spiral down to mania. We also know that there are times where you would want to scream and run away from a scene and wouldn’t care if anyone bothers or not. Anxiety leads us to reckless behaviour even if that anxiety was supposed to keep us away from it. So yes, it is not healthy. Be a warrior, not a worrier.  Anxiety stems from sending your brain on autopilot and let it run on steroids, screening bad possible instances and outcomes that can happ...

The first and the foremost thing that ensures that a human being lives a long, happy life is the condition of their heart and mind. The heart, in a technical sense, does not do the thinking part but is used metaphorically to state one’s emotional condition. Brain does all the thinking, even the stressful ones. The heart takes the brunt along with the brain. And now you see the picture of a well-being collapsing to the ground in a heart-broken stage. There are times when stress does enter a relationship. All you need to focus is on enduring it and finding the best solution for it. There are many things that can cause you emotional stress in your relationship. We will talk about a few that will paint the picture. If you relate to any of these and are unable to cope up with it, you can make an appointment with a stress therapist. Relationships can be of any form and with anyone. But stress is one enemy that comes with just an excuse. The best way to deal with stress is to own the reason...

Anxiety is worse than anything. If depression is slow suicide, then anxiety is quickly descending into panic and madness. In depression, your mind and body can take a halt slowly as each symptom increases day by day. Anxiety is jumping on all these symptoms at once with flight or fight response. You could die on the spot with an excessive rush of stress to your heart. This is why controlling anxiety is crucial. Anxiety is a natural response to perceived threat or danger. This is our body’s evolutionary way of survival. A good amount of cautiousness is helpful, but when it gets triggered by even a minute gesture or signal and exceeds to way uncontrollable amount, then you need to do something about it. Everything you see would be perceived as a threat and would lead you to paranoia. The worst thing about this is that you would also perceive people who are trying to help you as predators. And frequent episodes of it can trigger other mental health disorders such as schizophrenia, insom...