Therapeutic optimism

Without therapeutic optimism we might as well all pack up and go home!

Retail therapy

The best way to fail at making yourself feel better!

Picture on the box 7: Depression

If anxiety is a call to action, depression is the need to stop.

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!