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Nurturing Mental Wellbeing: A Holistic Approach to ADHD

Firstly, let’s be clear. As a mental health nurse, I am not specifically trained to assess or diagnose Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). I also want to acknowledge my own biases: my primary agenda is to advocate for people regardless of their difficulties to have the knowledge and skills to help themselves and take pride in …

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‘I HAVE ANXIETY: SO DO WE ALL. WHEN DOES IT BECOME A PROMLEM?

When people say to me, ‘I have anxiety’, I usually ask them ‘what is anxiety?  Why do we get anxious?’  What I often get is ‘it’s worrying…it’s debilitating…it’s horrible…anxiety is when I can’t do anything’.  If I ask ‘what is the function of it?’ A typical response a lot of the time is; ‘I don’t …

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