Firstly, let me apologise for not updating this blog for the last week or so. I have been extremely busy at work and also working on a new home page for https://www.anxiety2calm.com/ because it struck me that the current one, while initially good, has been out grown by the amount of content on the site making it hard for users to find the information they wanted. It will now be split up into sections on the various different aspects of anxiety and other minor mental health disorders.
I am also going to add some new sections, about OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) social anxiety and depression. So check back in the next few weeks to see them.
Now, onto some interesting things about anxiety. I recently re-watched a documentary about two severe phobics, one with a horror of mice and another with a debilitating fear of feathers and birds. Interestingly both of these phobias could be checked traced back to single early childhood traumas. I should point out that these were simple phobias, and the idea of a single traumatic cause of complex agoraphobia, panic disorder or depression is still an unobtainable Elderado for most suffererers.
To cut a long story short, both of these phobics were cured by exposure therapy (effectively with CBT) after hypnosis and the controversial Dr Callahan’s TFT failed to shift them. I, however, am still convinced that some problems are still too complex for the brutal sledge hammer that CBT can be, and am working on a section on psychotherapy, art therapy and other talking therapies. They are long, they are unfashionable, but are they also extremely successful? I would love to hear your thoughts.
Watch this space!
