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Control about our mental health - Tim Hill Psychotherapy

Control about Our Mental Health

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  • The self / Uncategorized
  • 24 May

We like to think of Australia as a country without divisions. We like to think that everyone has a fair go, and that things are equal. However, there are some

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The good in us - Tim Hill Psychotherapy

The Hero Within: Seeing our Goodness

by Tim Hill
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  • The self
  • 14 May

The ancient Romans revered Romulus. Their legends said that he, with his twin brother Remus, founded the city of Rome 400 years before. They assigned all sorts of worthy characteristics

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How Your Beliefs Limit Your Knowledge

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  • 13 Feb

We all want to build new skills. We feel that if we knew more and had more skills, then we could be more effective in the world. However, we sometimes

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Building Resilience: Why Failure is Essential

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  • Emotions / The self
  • 10 Nov

We would all like to live a life where we didn’t fail at anything. We can feel that it’d really be ideal if everything we turn our hand to was

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Understanding your Psychological Growing Pains

by Tim Hill
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  • Change / The self
  • 24 Sep

When we start psychotherapy, we often do it to know more about ourselves. Even though in some ways we might know ourselves quite well, we are drawn to therapy is

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When common sense doesn't help - Tim Hill Psychotherapy

Why Common Sense Often Doesn’t Work in Mental Health

by Tim Hill
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  • Change / The self
  • 25 Aug

When we face mental health difficulties in ourselves or another people, we can often get complex advice from professionals about how to treat the problem. That advice can feel too

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Understanding Your Flexible Personality

by Tim Hill
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  • Introversion / The self
  • 22 Jun

Many people feel strong desire to concretely define themselves. We can see ourselves as having a particular personality type, having a particular star sign, cultural affiliation or supporting a certain

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In a Bad Mood? This Can Help

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  • Emotions / The self
  • 25 May

We all have times when we are in a bad mood, and we’re not very pleasant to be around. We might not know the reason, and sometimes we don’t know

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Parts of us

Parts of Us: Understanding Our Complexity

by Tim Hill
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  • Relationships / The self
  • 28 Apr

We are used to thinking of ourselves as having a single personality. We think: “This is who I am, this is what I believe, this is what I want”. This

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priorities - Tim Hill Psychotherapy

Priorities: How to Invest Your Time the Right Way

by Tim Hill
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  • The self
  • 21 Apr

Every day we have the opportunity to invest our time in a variety of ways. We try to sort through the competing demands on our time and yet it can

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Alain de Botton’s Guide to Psychotherapy

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  • The self
  • 02 Sep

Alain de Botton, author and respected philosopher, has produced this great 3 minute guide to psychotherapy. It also applies to counselling, but I’ll use the term ‘psychotherapy’ to cover both like

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Your Inner Self: What Makes You ‘You’?

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  • The self
  • 14 May

We have many things of our own, but not just physical possessions. We also have our thoughts and feelings, memories, body and our relationships. These are the things that we

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Our Common Misconceptions About Grief and Loss

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  • Grief and Loss / The self
  • 28 Apr

Grief is something that touches each of us, and when it does, it affects us very powerfully. Yet we don’t seem to know much about grief, so when it happens

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Nature and Nurture: What Rules Us?

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  • Relationships / The self
  • 19 Apr

It can be tempting for us to develop simple explanations about why people are the way they are; we really want to understand ourselves and other people. One long-standing debate in psychology

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The Other Way of Building Self-Esteem

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  • Change / The self
  • 05 Mar

Many of us suffer from low self-esteem, and have worked hard to try to overcome this problem. For those who’ve tried it, building self-esteem can be a long process. It

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Better Thinking

Therapy and Better Thinking

by Tim Hill
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  • 1162
  • The self
  • 02 Dec

People that have experienced psychotherapy or counselling often talk about its benefits. However, we don’t always identify with the benefit they experience – because their lives are different to ours,

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Overthinking It: Our Different Styles

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  • Anxiety / Change / Relationships / Self-esteem / The self
  • 29 Nov

Have you ever been told that you’re overthinking it? You might hear this from others; your partner, your friends or your colleagues. They might imply that thinking too much about

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Changing Our Individual Responses to Stress

by Tim Hill
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  • Anxiety / Change / The self
  • 20 Oct

Different circumstances in our lives require us to respond in a variety of ways to meet the challenges they present. Sometimes we need to be able to push ourselves –

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Depression: Recognising the Warning Signs

by Tim Hill
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  • Anxiety / The self
  • 16 Oct

Recent years have seen significant and very encouraging advances in both the treatment and recognising depression. More people are able to recognise that someone is suffering from depression and to feel

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How to Feel More

by Tim Hill
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  • Change / Emotions / The self
  • 20 Aug

Sometimes we feel nothing. We can find ourselves in situations that others find quite emotional but we feel unaffected. Sometimes we can wonder what all the fuss is about. At

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How to Feel Less

by Tim Hill
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  • Change / The self
  • 18 Aug

Things we experience stimulate our emotions. We react to this stimulation in a variety of ways – sometimes mildly, sometimes strongly. This can be very enjoyable when we are feeling

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What to Do to Feel Less Shame

by Tim Hill
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  • Anxiety / Relationships / The self
  • 23 Jul

Sometimes we are sure our faults are blindingly obvious to everyone. We have just done something we feel is a mistake and we are sure everyone has noticed; it seems

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Stigmatisation and Discrimination

by Tim Hill
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  • Grief and Loss / Self-esteem / The self
  • 17 Jul

The prevalence of mental health problems in Australia is high – currently, about one in four people a year experience clinical levels of anxiety and depression. Those affected often have

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Resilience: Vulnerability, Stress and Coping

by Tim Hill
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  • Anxiety / The self
  • 14 Jul

When we are in trouble – particularly with emotional or personal problems – there is a simple model that can help us understand our circumstances. This model is called the

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