Alcohol can be used to help people overcome insecurities in social situations, to help relax and 'escape' the pressures of life, a stressful situation or as a reward at the end of a long hard day or to celebrate the end of the working week. Do you use alcohol to cope?
Perhaps you are trying to lose weight? Perhaps you are out of control with this behaviour and it is your way of coping and trying to take back control? For some people, binge eating a packet of chips or packet of Tim Tams every now and then. For others, they consume the chips and the Tim Tams, then try and purse through vomiting, excessive excercise and perhaps laxatives. Sound familiar? Check out the MindSlim program.
You feel edgy, irritable, feel like you are going crazy and just want the sugar fix, carb fix, fat fix or even a salt fix and then you will feel better - perhaps it happens about the same time everyday, morning tea time and afternoon tea time, you need a 'pick me up' to keep going. Either way, it's really annoying. Check out the MindSlim Program.
Feeling sad, moody and sometimes feel 'down' for no reason at all? Perhaps you've lost your appetite, or find it hard to get out of bed in the morning. Want to hide from the world, always feeling tired and energy levels are really low? Does this interfere with your ability to function at home or at work?
You experience heavy laboured breathing, tremors, tummy discomfort, sweating, dry mouth, dizziness and or weakness. The fear of 'not being in control' can cause these reactions and more and it is very real to people who have this fear of flying. Has this happened to you?
Once upon a time, you probably slept well and all night, but now your nights are broken and days are spent feeling weary and tired. Maybe you drift off easily at night, but wake in the early hours and toss and turn until morning or maybe you can't get to sleep until the early hours? Either way, if you suffer insomnia, you yearn for a good nights sleep. Does this happen to you?
Migraines are incredibly debilitating. Symptoms can vary, but it usually is a feeling of intense throbbing pain in the side of your headm you may feel nausea, you have pain behind one of your eyes and it seems to get worse when you are around light and noise. Sound familiar?
We can experience a range of moods depending on what's happening in our life and mood swings can be triggered by certain events, which is perfectly normal. But maybe these moods are unstoppable and you feel excessively down in the dumps, sad, despondent, u0pset and perhaps silent, keeping everything to your self because you don't know how to express how you feel! Is this you?
All of a sudden, you feel a tremendous wave of fear for no reason at all. Your heart is pounding, your chest hurts and it gets harder to breathe. You think you are going tro die - this is a panic attack. Often you can live in fear of it happening again and you don't know how to control it. Does this sound like you?
No matter how you plan or organise yourself, actually getting started or even finishing something just doesn't seem to happen. You know exactly what you should be doing and you keep putting it off. Then you suddeny realise - "Oh no, I've run out of time". Is this something you do?
Self-sabotage is a behaviour we do to ourselves when we feel either insecure about something or we believe we don't deserve good things to happen to us. It's like a tug of war we play with ourselves between us wanting something good but we don't feel worthy or right about it. Sound familiar?
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