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Explaining Stress, Anxiety and Depression (Bears Analogy)
TLDR; stress happens, you can’t stop it (and you wouldn’t want to), anxiety is your brain trying to understand why stress happens, and depression will result if stress and anxiety aren’t understood. In articles on resilience that I’ve written, I mentioned the TEDTalk that changed how we think about stress. When speaking about the ‘biology…
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Do you believe that everyone deserves to be safe at home?
An analysis of 112 family violence homicides reveals that coercive control behaviors predict murders better than physical injuries. Coercive control is now criminalized in Tasmania, NSW, and Queensland, with ongoing discussions in other states. Awareness and support for victims are crucial, as domestic violence claims lives frequently in Australia.
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How To Get More Sleep
Most people immediately improve their emotional regulation, cognitive functioning and even reduce their stress/anxiety/depression symptoms by getting more sleep. How to get more sleep? By following the actual science for good sleep, including a behavioural conditioning sleep routine (keep reading!).
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Holidays are here!
On behalf of the team here at Everyone Psychology, I sincerely wish everyone a festive holiday season, and a happy new year
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Progress is a dance, not a sprint or a marathon
Mastery is just 10,000 hours at any particular skill or goal you are trying to achieve. How many hours have you invested into being a better version of you? Investing in yourself is healthy. If symptoms are so severe that you as a novice (who is not familiar with what symptoms are) has noticed them,…
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Laziness isn’t real, neither is motivation
TLDR; motivation is a symptom, not a cause. Motivation is a by-product of feeling healthy and well. If you find yourself feeling ‘lazy’ on a regular basis, please talk to a professional. Where did my motivation go? ‘Help, I’ve lost my motivation and I want it back’. I couldn’t tell you how often I’m asked…
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The ‘Sunscreen’ for Stress and Anxiety
Talking about how we all have such high levels of stress and anxiety, without talking about prevention, is like talking about skin cancer without mentioning sunscreen. Psychologists are life coaches too. Your health is like a leaking tap, the longer you leave it leaking, the more it leaks and the more expensive it gets to…
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Relaxation is easy when you know how
If you have stress and anxiety and you haven’t tried intensive immersive progressive muscle relaxation, you’re missing out on an easy and effective method of preventing depression and improving your overall health through physiological relaxation.
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Taking aspirin doesn’t ‘cure’ a headache – explaining antidepressants
Taking antidepressants is (kind of) like taking aspirin for a headache. Expecting aspirin to ‘cure’ your headache is unrealistic, and so is expecting antidepressants to ‘cure’ your emotional and mental pain. If you want to manage your condition without medication, I will support your choice, but I need to ensure you’re very aware of the…
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Improving your life is (kind of) like cleaning the bathroom
It’s ok to not be ok. No single solvent makes an uncleaned bathroom into a magically sparkling clean one, needing to try different solvents is normal and healthy. You can’t fix months or years of neglect in hours, or even days. Improving your life might need different professionals, and that’s ok too.
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Andi Williams, Principal Psychologist, Everyone Psychology
Seeking advice when you first start experiencing stress or anxiety, can prevent serious harm and save you a lot of money – the average adult saves AU$9,000-$23,000. Financial hardship sessions are $30 gap fee after Medicare rebate, so for the cost of an average restaurant meal ($30) come have a chat with Andi!
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Sleeping More Can Save Your Life
This is Part 1 in the Sleep series. Read Part 2: sleep routines that actually work. TLDR; you can improve your health by improving your sleep. ‘Oversleeping causes bad health’ is NOT a thing, but ‘night owls’ are actually are a thing, and sleep deprivation is very, very bad. The less you sleep, the more…
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Psychologists Available For New Referrals
We invite you to refer to Everyone Psychology. Our business is managed by an experienced psychologist and we offer quality services and regular feedback to our referrers. Book an appointment | Learn more about us | Contact usWe welcome your questions and feedback!
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Resilience doesn’t mean what you think it does.
The best analogy I’ve ever heard, is that resilience is like bouncing a ball on concrete and it coming straight back to where it started. Most ‘resilience’ ideas are based on improving ‘ball smoothness’ (individuals) rather than the surface it bounces on (environment). The reality is, no ball is coming back if you throw it…
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