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Pandemics can be stressful!

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may be stressful for people.
Fear and anxiety about a new disease and what could happen can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions in adults and children.
Public health actions, such as social distancing, can make people feel isolated and lonely and can increase stress and anxiety.
However, these actions are necessary to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Coping with stress in a healthy way will make you, the people you care about, and your community stronger.

Take care of your mental health, contact us for a free consultation

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What is a mental health condition?

A mental health condition is a disorder that has a negative impact on your thoughts, mood, behaviour and your overall well-being.  

Mental health is unique to us all; it doesn’t discriminate, and we can all develop problems at different points in our lives.  However, the good news is that you don’t have to struggle with a mental health problem.  At MindPlan, we can provide specialist mental health treatment – the most important step is to seek help & support.
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It’s normal for all of us to feel worried, sad, upset, or have difficult emotions from time-to-time.  For most people though, these feelings are only temporary and are resolved without causing any long-term problems. However, for some people, these negative feelings can become worse over time and lead to a mental health problem such as depression, anxiety, stress or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

What are the symptoms?
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Signs and symptoms of mental health conditions can vary, depending on the disorder; circumstances and other factors.  Mental illness symptoms can affect emotions, thoughts and behaviours.

Examples of signs and symptoms include:
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• Feeling sad or down
• Confused thinking or reduced ability to concentrate
• Excessive fears or worries, or extreme feelings of guilt
• Extreme mood changes of highs and lows
• Withdrawal from friends and activities
• Significant tiredness, low energy or problems sleeping
• Inability to cope with daily problems or stress
• Trouble understanding and relating to situations and to people
• Major changes in eating habits
• Sex drive changes
• Excessive anger, hostility or violence
• Suicidal thinking
  
  

Sometimes symptoms of a mental health disorder appear as physical problems, such as stomach pain, back pain, headaches, or other unexplained aches and pains.

What makes us special?

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is a brain based therapy combining Psychotherapy with Hypnotherapy and using the most up to date findings of neuroscience and retraining the brain.  It does not focus on what has happened in the past and instead looks at your present situation and your future.

We not only offer the option for face to face clinical sessions at Ingrebourne Medical Centre, but we also offer home visits and online sessions which means that no matter whether you are on a business trip, live far away or even abroad, you will always have access to successful treatment. 
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Some Inspiring Quotes

“There is NOTHING as powerful as a changed mind. You can change your hair, your clothing, your address, your spouse, your friends, but if you don’t change your mind, the same experience will perpetuate itself over and over again because everything outwardly changed but nothing inwardly changed” 
- Bishop TD Jakes​

"Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power​"
- Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer

"Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts”
​–Eckhart Tolle, Renowned spiritual teacher and best-selling author

"Brains aren’t designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don’t, then someone else will”
​– Richard Bandler, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self"
​– Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher and scientist

"Doubt is a form of self-suggestion that undermines the creation of a new reality”
– Hypnosis Training Academy

"Allow yourself to see what you don't allow yourself to see"
-​Milton H. Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialised in medical hypnosis and family therapy

"The unconscious mind records all 1001 little details the conscious mind neglects”
–John Grinder, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

"You can’t affect the cards that are dealt, but you can determine how you play them”
​– Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialised in medical hypnosis and family therapy

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”
– Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity

"The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head”
​–Richard Bandler, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)