Robyn Lang Counselling

29/03/2021

“We do need to encourage people with milder or more transient difficulties to talk: first because any form of distress is horrible to experience alone, second because what seems mild may be the beginning of a more serious problem. But we need to figure out a way to talk about these negative emotions without sending the message that there’s something dysfunctional about you for feeling that way”

Increased use of psychiatric language means ordinary distress is being medicalised, while the seriously ill are not being heard, says psychologist Lucy Foulkes

17/01/2021

Your internal monologue shapes mental wellbeing, says psychologist Ethan Kross. He has the tools to improve your mind’s backchat

01/11/2019

The data shows the likelihood of experiencing anxiety rises then declines – and women are more likely to feel it than men

07/10/2019

“Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original… it is a continuing act of creation. Dream images are the product of that creation.”

“Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original…it is a continuing act of creation. Dream images are the product of that creation.”

01/10/2019

What purpose does anger serve? Are men angrier than women? Can it affect our mental wellbeing? Science is beginning to uncover some of the answers

26/09/2019

09/07/2019

“The diagnostic system wrongly assumes that all distress results from disorder, and relies heavily on subjective judgments about what is normal.”

Psychiatric diagnoses have their uses but such labels can be unhelpful, says GP Ann Robinson

04/07/2019

“I’ve come to believe that greater awareness of our hormonal processes can help us not only to manage our corresponding moods, but also to conceptualise what a mood actually is: a state of being that is, by its nature, temporary, and rarely directly attributable to one thing.”

For decades, being ‘hormonal’ has been used to diminish women. But why? Eleanor Morgan argues that monthly cycles are just another part of learning to be ourselves

02/07/2019

Echoism is a condition that can arise as a result of sustained abuse at the hands of narcissists. It's now gaining awareness as survivor communities push for recognition.

14/04/2019

“... maybe “getting happy” isn’t the best way to think about the aim here. Maybe confronting life as it really is – even when that’s no cause for celebration – is the path to meaning.”

Some degree of distress just proves the process is working

13/03/2019

“Emotional granularity is like watching HDTV versus regular TV. It lets you see your anger with higher resolution”

While many people believe that how we feel and express anger is hard-wired, some scientists suggest our experience and culture help shape it. One way to get a handle on it may be to personalize it.

10/03/2019

“If we take man as he really is, we make him worse. But if we overestimate him … we promote him to what he really can be. So we have to be idealists, in a way — because then we wind up as the true, the real realists.”

In this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning -- and the most important gift we can give others.