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This Is What A Suicidal Crisis Looks Like From The Inside – Alaina Mabaso

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.depressionarmy.com/ourblog/2015/8/2/this-is-what-a-suicidal-crisis-looks-like-from-the-inside Very powerful piece by Alaina, for which many thanks. I know this landscape of bleak despair, and the urge to die. Since I was a teenager, I have visited it from time to time. During my training as a … Continue reading →

Posted in blaming, Carl Rogers, communication, compassion, conditions of worth, congruence, consciousness, core conditions, cultural questions, cultural taboos, Disconnection, dying, emotions, empathy, encounter, external locus, fear, friendship, grief, growth, human condition, kindness & compassion, loneliness, organismic experiencing, power and powerlessness, presence, psychiatry, relationship, sadness & pain, shadow, suicide, therapeutic relationship, trauma, violence, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Alaina Mabaso, authenticity, being there, blame, Carl Rogers, Come Out of The Dark, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, crying, depression, depressive episode, discrimination, disease model, disorder model, distress, empathy, extreme emotion, extreme psychological states, fear, friendship, grief, Helplessness, insomnia, isolating, isolation, Johns Hopkins, Jonathan Rottenberg, judgment, kindness, loneliness, loss, loss of interest, low cost counselling exeter, medicalisation of distress, medicalisation of human experience, medicalization of distress, medicalization of human experience, mental illness, mood disorder, numbing, numbing psychological pain, oversensitive, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, powerlessness, psychiatric hospitalisation, psychiatric paradigm, Psychiatry, psychological pain, realness, risk, selfish, severe depression, shame, stigma, suicidal crisis, suicidal thoughts, suicide, suicide as escape, survival, terror, unhappiness, withdrawal, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 1 Comment

Will Hall on Marijuana

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://beyondmeds.com/2015/08/26/marijuana-for-mental-health/ Wide-ranging, intelligent, balanced and informed contribution to the cannabis debate by Will – whose writing is consistently of high quality. The writer has no agenda about what drugs other competent adult human beings do/don’t decide to take – but … Continue reading →

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Jon Keyes on Herbalism

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://beyondmeds.com/2014/10/29/mental-health-herbalism/ Click on the link for this interesting article by Jon on http://www.beyondmeds.com, sharing his knowledge of herbalism and holistic approach to healing and well-being. Here are a couple of older posts from Jon too:- https://palacegatecounsellingservice.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/jon-keyes-traditional-healing-psychosis/ https://palacegatecounsellingservice.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/jonathan-keyes-invisible-pain-recovery-from-psychiatric-drugs/ Palace Gate Counselling … Continue reading →

Posted in anti-depressants, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, emotions, fear, healing, herbalism, human condition, interconnection & belonging, Jon Keyes, medical model, mindfulness, natural world, neuroscience, paradigm shift, perception, physical being, political, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, relationship, sadness & pain, sleep, spirituality, sustainability, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, allopathic drugs, anxiety, ativan, belonging, benzodiazapenes, confusion, connection, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, depression, extreme mental states, GABA receptors, Gaia, harmony, healing herbs, herbalism, holistic health, insomnia, Jon Keyes, Jonathan Keyes, low cost counselling exeter, medical model, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, mental health model, natural healing, neurochemistry, neuroscience, pain management, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, panic attacks, paradigm shift, person centred counselling exeter, plant medicine, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, Psychosis, relationship, spirituality, SSRI, web of life, www.beyondmeds.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, xanax | Leave a comment

Michael Leunig – The 3 a.m. Wake Up

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in consciousness, fear, human condition, Michael Leunig | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, fear, human condition, insomnia, low cost counselling exeter, Michael Leunig, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, sleeplessness, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

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