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How do you know if you need counselling or if it will help you?

 

Counselling Can help if:

• you are feeling low anxious and fearful

• you lack feelings of self-worth, low confidence

• have suffered any form of physical, or emotional abuse

• you have suffered loss, bereavement or other trauma

• you frequently feel lonely and isolated, empty

• you suffer from physical symptoms with no clear organic cause

• you suffer from eating disorders

• you are often using, food, drink, drugs, shopping, and gambling to help you cope or manage your stresses

• you wish to improve your relationships

• you seek greater self-knowledge and wish to develop your potential

 

Look at how you are currently coping with your stresses

Think about the ways you currently manage and cope with stress in your life. Writing a stress journal can help you identify them. Are you coping by using strategies that are healthy or unhealthy, helpful or unproductive? Unfortunately, many people cope with stress in ways that compound the problem. Look at the list below of unhealthy ways are you. using these coping strategies?

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Unhealthy ways of coping with stress

These coping strategies may temporarily reduce stress, but they cause more damage in the long run:

• Smoking

• Drinking too much

• Overeating or undereating

• Zoning out for hours in front of the TV or computer

• Withdrawing from friends, family, and activities

• Using pills or drugs to relax, or manage your emotions

• Sleeping too much, or not sleeping

• Procrastinating, worrying too much.

• Filling up every minute of the day to avoid facing problems

• Taking out your stress on others (lashing out, angry outbursts, physical violence)

 

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