Let’s start looking at some of these jigsaw pieces in a bit more detail. Today we’re talking about anxiety…
Picture on the box 6: Anxiety
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Category Archives: Mental health principles
Picture on the box 5: Types of mental disorder
Diagnoses are based upon combinations of different types of disorder and/or distress. Understand those types and it all becomes so much easier to make sense of.
Picture on the box 3: What is mental illness?
What is mental illness?
Picture on the box 2.2: Answers
As promised, here are the answers to the initial questionnaire. Let me know how you did in the comments.
Therapeutic risk-taking
Without risk life becomes meaningless. Our whole quality of life depends upon a balance between risk and reward. This is as true for our patients and service-users as it is for us.
Genuinely helpful care must involve positive, therapeutic risk-taking.
Meaningful activity and happiness
If you want to find happiness or even contentment do something that you define as more important than yourself.
Remember: Happiness comes from what we do, not from what we’ve got!