Articles tagged: "distress"

1: Emotional Wounds: Bandages, Baggage, Balms and Blessings

We are often taught to ignore and bury our problems and upsets and to 'be strong.' This is a temporary solution for distress that has serious drawbacks. Learning to identify and to release our feelings are much better ways of handling them. Varieties of self-treatment methods enable us to do this, with excellent results, including the release of anxieties about having problems in the first place.

2: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Personal Story

Many of us have little quirks in our personality that we believe to be indicative of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), but those traits are usually just personality quirks. OCD impacts on daily functioning.