Shamsa Riaz

Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety doesn’t make them less valid.
-Lauren Elizabeth

Seeking help is often the first step towards getting and staying well, but it can be hard to know how to start or where to turn. It's common to feel unsure and to wonder whether you should try to handle things on your own. But it's always okay to ask for help – even if you're not sure you are experiencing a specific mental health problem. Get help now. Book an appointment for the online audio/video consultation.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
-Corrie Ten Boom

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
-Barbara Kingsolver

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.
-C.S. Lewis

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
-Carl R. Rogers

Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist continues to grow as a person and as a healer.

Jed Diamond

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

John Cleese

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

Carl Jung

Most people with psychosis take powerful drugs to keep delusions and hallucinations at bay - but the side-effects can be severe. In Norway, a radical approach is now on offer via the national health system for patients who want to live drug-free. BBC News

How Norway is offering drug-free treatment to people with psychosis People with psychosis are usually given powerful medication - in Norway they can now choose to go drug-free.