Relationships as a resource for recovery
During an initial therapy session, I often hear how long a problem, issue or difficulty has been around. Whether it has got worse, taken it’s toll or just changed to something or someone else, what becomes increasingly clear during the conversation is that people do not tend to come to therapy when they first need …
I have long disliked the general divisive language around mental health. Although improvements are developing, I still find there is an implied message that there is a ‘them and us’ narrative informing how we think of mental health and mental illness. If we were to use language that suggests a more inclusive indiscriminate narrative, we …