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All You Wanted To Know On Reiki Healing

Sun, 05/25/2008 - 13:54 — Bolton Wellbein...

In Japan, Reiki is widely used to reduce stress and relax your stress hormone. The word Reiki is derived from two Japanese words 'Rei' and 'Ki'. Rei means “God's Wisdom or the Higher Power” and “ki” means “life force, energy”.

Learn More About The Reiki Treatment

Reiki is considered as a simple and safe method of self-improvement and spiritual healing. It is very much effective in relieving various types of illnesses. The best thing is that Reiki can be combined with other medical and therapeutic techniques to eliminate the side effects and boost up recovery. Reiki is effective in bringing complete treatment to the patient’s mind, body and spirit.

The process allows the practitioner to tap into an unlimited supply of life force energy and eventually improve the health and quality of life. Those who have accessed the Reiki technique, say that the process has helped them to keep in touch with the experience of their religion. This brings them more close to God. Dr. Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki recommends it as a natural healing process and he requests the practitioners to follow it with an objective to promote harmony and peace amongst all human beings.

Reiki Healing – The Procedure?

Reiki healing techniques involve some valuable teachings that claim that it is an inexhaustible spiritual energy that is used to bring a healing effect. Here the patient lies down on the table in very loose, comfortable clothing. The Reiki practitioner then places his hands on all over the body of the patient. However, many practitioners prefer to use the non-touching technique where the hand is placed a few centimeters above the body and kept at a position for 3 to 5 minutes, before it is moved to the next position. The whole treatment takes 45 to 90 minutes depending upon the complexity. The patient will immediately feel a general feeling of well-being and this is produced within the body immediately.

The Reiki Training

Outside the boundaries of Japan, the Reiki healing training is categorized under three main degrees:
First degree: Here the students learn about the hand positioning over the body and this is practiced for quite some time. The course is usually carried for two days, though it may vary.
Second degree: Here the students learn the use of three symbols, which have the ability to enhance distance and strength of the person in question.
Third degree: This is also known as the master training. In this process the student learns one or more attunements and then he/she attains the master-level symbol.

What Is Reiki All About?

Reiki is all about using the hands for healing. The therapists have found that Reiki is all about working on emotional, physical, spiritual and mental level. The practice is very supportive when a person is suffering from any other illnesses and is in acute requirement for support.

How Bolton Wellbeing Clinic helps

David R Behan is the best therapist you can ever consult. He caters to your emotional support in every aspect and gives you the best idea you are possibly looking for. He is proficient in working with his clients for their traumatic disorders and finding solutions for the same. He provides personal coaching and brings effective methods of stress management and relief. 

How To Treat Psychological Trauma

Fri, 05/23/2008 - 17:42 — Bolton Wellbein...

Trauma is the outcome of overwhelmingly stressful events and occurrences that shatter your inner being and leave you with haunting memories. It threats your sense of safety and security, makes you feel lonely and helpless. Any event that does not harm you physically but leaves you frightened mentally is traumatic.

Traumatic experiences involve betrayal, physical abuse, verbal abuse or sexual abuse and a major loss. Life-threatening catastrophe, natural calamities, death of near and dear ones or dissatisfaction with life can be traumatizing. In brief, events that cause trauma in most cases are as follows:

- House fire
- Violent crime
- Plane crash
- Earthquake
- Flood
- Emotional distress
- Life-taking disease
- Chronic abuse
- Relentless stress and depression
- Bloodshed and suffering in a war        

Different Types of Trauma:

- Physical trauma
- Penetrating trauma
- Blunt force trauma
- Psychological trauma
- Post-cult trauma
- Childhood trauma  

Signs and Symptoms of Trauma  

Signs and symptoms of trauma that surface as the body endeavors to regulate the pent-up energy are:

- Trembling
- Crying
- Shaking
- Sweating
- Laughing
- Breathing deeply

Psychological Trauma Treatment options

You should resolve to face the unbearable memories and feelings that you have till now avoided in order to escape the fits of trauma. It is cowardice to flinch from facing up to the heart-rending experiences and painful memories.  Facing with boldness what you fear most is what strengthens and soothes your mind. It lifts off the load of troubled emotions and thoughts that lie as heavy as lid on your mind. It is a nicer and more effective option to heal from emotional and psychological traumas.       

It can be painful and scary to work through trauma. It is potentially re-traumatizing to treat a trauma. You should consult a trauma specialist to avoid the possibility of re-traumatization. It is done in the following two ways:   

- Processing the traumatic memory
- Discharging pent-up energy
   
Processing the Traumatic Memory: Traumatic memories are different from ordinary memories. Extreme stress on the mind is a curb on the functionality of the brain to integrate your experiences into an ordered and coherent memory. However, trauma prevents the brain from integrating experiences and processing memories. 

This is an effective way to relive traumatic memories rather than simply remember them. They may be split-off fragments like bodily sensations, raw emotions, frightening images, physical pain, sounds and smells that you will feel as real as you had felt during the trauma. The memory of the trauma is processed by the reconnection of these fragments.   

Discharging Fight-Or-Flight Energy: When you confront a threat, your body at once prepares itself for an emergency action in a biological process that is the “fight-or-flight” response. This biological process is automatic. The fight-or-flight response strengthens you with extra energy to escape or flight the threat of the trauma.

Trauma Treatment Therapy for Psychological Trauma

Somatic therapy uses the body’s own healing capacity to heal the trauma. The focus of this trauma treatment are the bodily sensations not thoughts or memories of the event that has caused the trauma. Concentration on the bodily sensations helps you release trauma-related tension and energy through shaking or crying.

How Bolton Wellbeing Clinic helps

David R Behan’s Bolton Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in Bolton is a world famous centre of trauma treatment. David R Behan is a certified and experienced consultant and therapist, practitioner and trainer in the treatment of psychological trauma. You can reap a heap of benefits from trauma treatment under the care of David R Behan.   
 

Treatment Options for Allergy Relief

Thu, 05/22/2008 - 16:35 — Bolton Wellbein...

Allergies are disorders of the body’s immune system. Allergies may be inborn or acquired. Environmental substances to which the body shows allergic reaction are called allergens. Allergy is a type of hypersensitivity. The excessive activation of basophils and white blood cells or mast cells by IgE, an antibody results in an inflammatory response that is the body’s allergic reaction to an allergen.  Common allergies are hives, hay fever, eczema, asthma and food allergies. Some people show allergic reaction to stinging insects like bees and wasps. 

Mild allergies such as hay fever are very common to human beings. They cause symptoms like itchiness, runny nose and conjunctivitis. Severe allergic reaction to dietary, environmental or medicinal allergens may result in anaphylactic reactions that is life threatening.         

Signs and Symptoms

In case of airborne allergens like pollen or dust, the body shows symptoms in the areas that are in contact with air like lungs, eyes and nose. Shortness of breath, mucus in the lungs, wheezing and coughing are some symptoms of inhaled allergens. Allergic Rhinitis that is widely known as hay fever show symptoms such as sneezing, itching, nose irritation and redness in the eyes. Abdominal pain, vomiting, bloating, itchy skin, skin swelling and diarrhea are symptoms of allergies to food. Severe allergies from certain medicines and antibiotics can cause edema, hypotension, bronchoconstriction, and coma and affect organ systems of the body like the digestive system, the circulatory system and the respiratory system. Rashes, inflammation and swelling of the skin are common symptoms of skin allergies that frequently come to the surface.  

Allergy Treatment options

There has been mammoth improvement in medical treatments for allergies. Some modes of treatment for allergy relief are:

Pharmacotherapy

Pharmacotherapy is intake of antagonistic drugs that prevent the activation of allergic mediators and block their action in the body. These drugs include cortisone, antihistamines, dexamethasone, hydrocortisone, theophylline, epinephrine, and cromolyn sodium. Anti-leukotrienes like Zafirlukast and Montelukast have been found to be quite effective as allergic treatment. Anti-cholinergics, mast cell stabilizers and decongestants are commonly used drugs for allergies. These drugs remove the allergic symptoms.   

Immunotherapy

Hyposensitization or Desensitization is an allergy treatment that includes gradual vaccination with a large dose of a particular allergen. This either eliminates hypersensitivity or reduces its severity altogether. It prevents excessive production of IgE in the immune system. It boosts immunity of the body to increase the amount of allergen. Immunotherapy is a good allergy treatment for such allergic reactions as asthma, conjunctivitis, and rhinitis.

Intravenous injection with monoclonal anti-IgE antibodies is another kind of immunotherapy. The most effective injection of such immunotherapy is Omalizumab. People with allergies to food should not be treated with this form of immunotherapy.

Sublingual immunotherapy is an effective means of allergy relief. It involves intake of oral medication. It strengthens immunity of the body against allergies from non-pathogenic antigens like foods and bacteria. It is successful as an allergy treatment for 40% of allergies.
       
Homeopathic allergy treatment for allergies from cat, dog, food, latex, mold or milk is a good source of allergy relief. It is an anti-histamine, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and holistic treatment.     

How Bolton Wellbeing Clinic can help you

David R Behan’s Bolton Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in Bolton is a much sought after hub of therapies for persons with allergies. David R Behan, a certified and accomplished coach and consultant offers a few medicinal therapies for energy relief. His therapies help patients cope with allergic reactions to allergens.

Drug Addiction and its Ill Effects

Wed, 05/21/2008 - 15:09 — Bolton Wellbein...

Drug addiction is taken into account as a pathological state. Drug addiction develops due to the long intake of acute drug to treat the abnormal functioning and vulnerability of the body, its capacity to respond to natural stimuli. Physical dependence and abuse of drugs and other substances is drug addiction. Drug addiction is often termed as substance dependence.

Substance dependence is categorized into three stages - anticipation or preoccupation, intoxication or binge and negative effect. An addict moves through these stages in ascending manner with the growing intensification of craving for the substance or drug.   

Addiction-causing Drugs 
 
Drugs that are supposed to develop addiction include over-the-counter drugs or illegal drugs.

Stimulants that increase and intensify your desire to take drugs:

- Amphetamine
- Methamphetamine
- Cocaine
- Caffeine
- Nicotine
- Alcohol
- Sedatives
- Hypnotics
- Barbiturates
- Benzodiazepines like clonazepam, alprazolam, nimetazepam, temazepam
- Codeine and Morphine
- Opioid and Opiate analgesics
- Semi-synthetic opiates like Oxycodone, Heroin and Hydromorphone
- Full synthetic opiates like Fentanyl, Methadone, Pethidine
- Cannabis

Here is something you should know on two of the commonest types of addictions – Alcohol Addiction and Pornography Addiction:

Alcohol Addiction

Alcohol addiction is a habitual or obsessive need for a liquid with intoxicating effects. Alcoholic liquids are made from the extract of fruit or fermented grain. Beer, wine and many other hard types of liquor are liquids with alcoholism.

Alcoholism develops when you crave for alcohol and your craving goes beyond control. If you stop consuming alcohol after getting deep into the habit of alcoholism, you may experience withdrawal symptoms like sweating, shakiness, anxiety or nausea. You are alcoholic if you feel urged to drink alcohol in plenty.      

Life-Threatening Effects of Alcohol Addiction: 

- Too much intake of alcohol can harm brain cells and lead to brain damage.
- It disturbs the function and structure of the central nervous system destroying its ability to process, retrieve and consolidate information.
- Affects the cognitive abilities of the body
- Reduces the supply of oxygen to the brain
- Inflames the mouth, stomach and esophagus
- Can cause cancer in the mouth, stomach and esophagus
- Can cause irregular heart attacks
- Can cause malnutrition, water retention, pancreatic disorders and high blood pressure
- Can damage sexual function and harm vision
- Breaks down the immunity of the body by weakening bones and muscles
- May lead to lever damage in three stages - liver enlargement, alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis.  

Pornography Addiction

Pornography addiction is one of the commonest addictive disorders. It is a kind of sexual addiction resulting from obsession with sex. Pornography addiction results in abuse or overuse of sex leading to indecent carnal activities. Teenagers and young adults fall prey to this addiction at the age of adolescence. After the introduction and development of the internet, it has spread like wild fire among the young. Online pornography is more addictive because of its explicitness and wide availability.

Evils of Pornography Addiction

Pornography addiction is full of inimical influence. It inhibits the blooming of young minds and development of young brains. It gradually robs the addicts of their reasoning capability, thinking process and creative faculty. They sometimes end up suffering from mental distress and depression due to the severity of pornography addiction. In many cases, it becomes the cause of their social disgrace.  

How Bolton Wellbeing Clinic helps

David R Behan’s Bolton Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in Bolton is a hub of therapies for getting rid of smoke, drug and alcohol addiction. David R Behan is a highly experienced and accomplished therapist. He offers health-friendly services like stress and anxiety management therapy, psychotherapies to remove these addictions from the root.  

Treating Skin Disorders and Diseases

Tue, 05/20/2008 - 12:20 — Bolton Wellbein...

The skin is the largest organ of the human body. The entire area of the human body that is exposed to air is under cover of the skin. Therefore, skin diseases and disorders are common problems. As the skin is the most sensitive part of the body, its diseases are to be treated timely and properly.

Skin diseases and disorders are classified into eight main categories:

The first group includes infectious skin diseases like Cellucitis, Cyst, Pilonidal and Erithrasma. These are caused by microorganisms like fungi, bacteria and others. Lack of hygiene promotes the growth of these microbes on the skin leading to these diseases.

Bulbous disorders like Dermatitis Herpetiformis and Pemphigus fall under the second group of skin diseases. In fact, these are blisters which appear due to chemical reaction on the skin. Accumulation of body fluids around wounds on the skin forms them.

The third group includes Eczema and Dermatitis that are mainly caused by allergies to specific things. Dermatitis can be of many types like nummular, dyshidritic, seborrhoeic, cercarial and atopic.

Papulosquamous disorders such as Psoriasis, Lichen Planus, Pityriasis rosea and Parapsoriasis comprise the fourth group of skin diseases.  They develop patches or plaques on the skin.

The fifth group includes Erythema and Uricaria that are allergic reactions of the skin to various elements. Red spots and burning or stinging sensation in the skin are symptoms of them. 

The sixth group consist radiation-related skin diseases like skin cancer, sunburn, solar urticaria and radiodermatitis. Exposure to harmful radiations like ultra violet rays or X-Ray causes these diseases.  

The seventh group incorporates the diseases of the skin appendages like hair, nails, sebaceous glands, sweat glands and arrector pilli. Ophiasis, Pseudopelade and Androgenic alopecia are some of them. 

Other skin diseases and disorders like vitiligo, leukoderma, freckles, pigmentation and so on form the eight or the last group.               

Treatment for Skin Disorders

Topical drugs (drugs applied directly to the skin): These are the most effective remedial options for skin diseases. However, systematic drugs too are prescribed to patients for treating skin disorders. Topical drugs are of various overlapping categories like:

Cleansing agents: Soaps, solvents, detergents are good cleansing agents for wounds, abrasions and cuts. Baby shampoos are beneficial cleansing agents too. 

Protective agents: Oils, ointments and sunscreens are good protective agents. Oils and ointments form a layer of oil that helps to protect the irritated or scraped skin. Application of sunscreen works like a barrier between the skin and the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun.     

Drying agents: OTC antiperspirants are aluminum salts-containing solutions that are effective drying agents. These are good remedies to excessive sweating. Astringents are drying agents in liquid form. Astringents like Whitch Hazel treat oozing skin lesions, pressure sores and infectious eczema.

Anti-itch agents: Chamomile, camphor, eucalyptus, menthol, talc, zinc oxide, calamine and glycerin are other good anti-itch agents that have been proved to treat the itching sensation on the skin.

Anti-inflammatory agents: Corticosteroids are good anti-inflammatory agents to ease inflammation of the skin like swelling, redness and itching. These agents reduce allergic reactions of the skin to metals, cloth, poison ivy, eczema, drugs and so on.    

Anti-infective agents: Antibiotics, insecticides and antifungals are effective anti-infective agents. These prevent viruses, fungi, parasites and bacteria from infecting the skin. Stronger anti-infective agents are used in surgical cases. The place of incision is applied with an anti-infecting agent after the surgery.  

Keratolytics: Keratolytics ease the peeling and flaking process by softening the skin cells. Salicylic urea and acid are effective and beneficial keratolytics.    

How Bolton Wellbeing Clinic can help you

David R Behan’s Bolton Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in Bolton is where skin diseases and disorders are effectively taken care of. A highly experienced consultant and practitioner, David offers various skin therapies for soft, healthy, young and smooth skin.      
 

Manic Depression and Treatments

Mon, 05/19/2008 - 08:17 — Bolton Wellbein...

Manic depression is a serious cerebral disease of the brain that is associated with sudden shifts in behavior, moods and body functioning. Shift from an extreme emotion to another extreme emotion is manic depression. It is in fact, a mental illness with mood instability that affects the normal functioning of the brain. Manic depression is better known as bipolar disorder with mood instability.

This disease takes a toll on the social life and professional life of its sufferers. Manic depression reaches the utmost height of severity leading to insanity or suicide. It is said that this beating depression has been the cause of death of many brilliant artists, writers and composers.

In case of bipolar disorder, persons experience sudden and deep mood swings that may last for weeks, months or years. Left untreated, manic depression worsens gradually beyond endurance. This disease develops at three stages - firstly at the stage of mania, secondly at that of depression and thirdly, at the combined stage of mania and depression. It is difficult to treat the illness at the third stage.    

Symptoms that surface at the stage of mania are as follows:

- Enhanced energy
- Increased activity
- High rate of excitability
- Changing thoughts and ideas
- Rapid pace of talking and walking
- Irritation at minor incidences
- Lack of acumen and discretion
- Unusual behavior that may be aggressive
- Lack of concentration and interest in a thing at a time
- Feelings of greatness and grandeur
- Overconfidence and less sleep  
          
Symptoms that surface at the stage of depression are as follows:

- Vacant look in the eyes
- Frequent melancholic mood
- Feelings of helplessness and loneliness
- Feelings of exhaustion
- Frequent expression of annoyance
- Difficulty remembering and making decision
- Depleted level of energy and enthusiasm
- Mental conflict
- Suicidal tendencies and talk

Manic Depression Treatment
 
Medicinal treatment for manic depression with antidepressants is the first option for health professionals. Antidepressants help the patients feel mentally at ease and peace. Doctors many times depend on antidepressants for treating patients of bipolar disorder. Tricyclic Drugs prevent the reuptake of serotonin, epinerphrine and norepinephrine and treat depression. Antidepressants are not the first choice of physicians as intake of these drugs may show adverse effects. Bupropion (Wellbutrin), trazodone (Desurel) and maprotiline are effective antidepressants.

Other medications include anticonvulsants, antipsychotic and anti-anxiety medications to treat beating depression. 

SSRI Treatment

SSRI is the abbreviated form of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors. Nowadays, physicians prefer SSR inhibitors to other medications for the effective treatment of bipolar depression. They prove to be beneficial producing almost no side effects. The drawbacks of taking SSR inhibitors include GI and sleep problems. In some cases, it may bring about an unusual change in sexual function. Fuoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil) and sertraline (Zoloft) are some effective SSR inhibitors.    

MAOI Treatment

MAOI stands for Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors. The enzymatic degeneration of norepinephrine and serotonin is hampered with MAO inhibitors. Doctors recommend these inhibitors for those patients of bipolar depression who suffer from insomnia and anorexia. Only one disadvantage of taking them is that they carry risk of high toxicity. Patients under this mode of medication are required to comply with dietary restrictions. Isocarboxazid (Marplan) is one of MAO inhibitors.       

How Bolton Wellbeing Clinic helps

David R Behan’s Bolton Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in Bolton is the one and only stop for the patients of bipolar disorder. David R Behan, a highly certified and experienced practitioner coaching the victims of manic depression.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Its Treatments

Sat, 05/17/2008 - 13:20 — Bolton Wellbein...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is an emotional ailment that results from the factors of fright. Moreover, highly unpleasant moments, painful events, deadly dreams and traumas also result in emotional distress and disorder. PTSD sufferers tend to avoid objects, people, places or things that revive their memory of the traumatic experiences. Victims of PTSD are delicately sensitive to adverse conditions of life. 

Rape victims and combat veterans in general fall prey to posttraumatic stress disorder. Studies show that women are more prone to suffer from PTSD than men. This disorder is common to the African, Hispanics and the Americans. Post traumatic stress disorder can victimize rescue workers when they reach the stage of senility as they are haunted by the memory of agony and suffering, at the sites of natural casualties and calamities.        

Several physical and mental factors are responsible for post traumatic stress disorder. Mental factors account more than physical factors to the emergence of this psychological disorder. Loneliness, dissatisfaction, depression, stress, anxiety, apprehension and distress are several prime causes of this psychic disorder.

Statistics show that nowadays, PTSD has become common to children and teenagers all over the world. Forty percent of children and teenagers meet a traumatic event once in life. As a result, six percent of boys and fifteen percent of girls develop PTSD. Children who are left with indelible impact of some unpleasant occurrence develop PTSD. Percentage of such children ranges from 30 to 60.

PTSD Treatment options

PTSD treatments are done in two modes - medical and psychological. Psychological treatment involves teaching the victims about PTSD strategies and to keeps them away from the factors that remind them of their past suffering. Techniques of this mode of treatment include sympathizing with them and cheering them up. The alchemy of love, affection and sympathy is stronger than the curative property of medicines. Educating them about the symptoms of PTSD is an integral part of psychological treatment. Knowledge of fact and figures of the disorder will make them conscious at the surfacing of symptoms. It teaches them how to withdraw from the trap of heart-rending events and experiences and prepares them to accept situations with positivity. This psychotherapy treatment is more reliable and popular than other treatments for PTSD. 

Eye-movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an effective kin of cognitive therapy. In this mode of therapy, the therapist induces PTSD affected persons to speak out their anguish and agony. They are kept under observation for a few days. The practitioner observes the gestures, facial expressions and movements when they talk about the trauma they have suffered and speak out their negative feelings. PTSD sufferers may benefit from parenting classes and counseling of their friends and families. Family members can throw light on what the sufferers themselves cannot share with others.   

Medicinal PTSD Treatment

Medications that doctors usually recommend for the victims of PTSD include serotonergic antidepressants such as fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft). Medicines that reduce the intensity of this illness are clonidine (Catapres), propranolol and guaneficine (Tenex). These medicines prove effective to decrease depression, anxiety and panic and reduce impulsivity, aggression and suicidal thoughts that result from the severity of mental disorder in the minds of PTSD sufferers. Mood stabilizers for example, Lamictal, Gabitril, Depakote, Risperdal, Zyprexa and Seroquel are less effective but potentially helpful medicines for persons with PTSD. These keep them away from feelings of alienation and dissociation that agitate them.    

Bolton Wellbeing Clinic

David R Behan’s Bolton Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in Bolton is the place where clients of PTSD are effectively treated. David R Behan is a highly proficient practitioner in therapies for post traumatic stress disorder. PTSD sufferers from around the world have experienced profundly positive results to their psychological issues at the clinic of David R. Behan.  

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Its Benefits

Fri, 05/16/2008 - 12:01 — Bolton Wellbein...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a kind of psychotherapy. It is an effective treatment of psychological disorders, psychiatric problems, personality disorders, eating disorders and mental ailments. People also undergo the treatment to bring about a change in their lifestyles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy gives you a relief from the clutches of anxiety, stress, depression and fear.

Benefits of CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an effective and efficient remedy to several problems. It is a short-term mode of psychological treatment. It empowers patients who are victims of psychiatric disorders with a set of skills to fight off their problems. You can reap most of the benefits of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy if you go for the therapy in combination with pharmacological treatment. They work in association to remove the factors that are largely responsible for any kind of mental illnesses. The therapy can bear fruits without medicinal treatment. It is equivalent to drug treatment. Behavioral cognitive therapy itself is a good treatment. Patients who are self-consciousness and keen to be on their feet make the most of this therapy.       
    
Limitations of CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy does not cure a mental illness or psychological disorder. It rather corrects it and trains patients to cope with it. It cannot absolutely remove the factors and symptoms in case of those patients who are overwhelmingly obsessed with their problem. Cognitive behavioral therapy is highly effective when it is done in combination with other psychotherapy. Even if behavioral cognitive therapy is a short-term treatment, it may last long in case of adverse situations. 

Effectiveness      

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a cure for a number of physical and psychological disorders. It has proven to be effective in treatment of the following:

- Clinical depression
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Affective Disorder
- Panic disorder
- Weight loss
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Phobic disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Diabetes
- Drug abuse
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Lifestyle changes

Functional Procedure of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 

It helps you turn over a new leaf. Under the therapeutic treatment, you can identify negative thinking that results in you from depressed feelings. Depression feeds on your mental health and leaves you hopeless with lack of energy and feeling of emptiness. Negativity drains energy and enthusiasm from the core of your mind. These feelings hold you back from thinking positively and harm your relationship with others in your surroundings. It prevents you also from indulging in joy and pleasure. This situation becomes chronic if you cannot rise over it timely. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy replaces negative feelings with positive ones. The therapist asks you to recall the event or trauma that is the prime-cause of the mental suffering and trains you on how to turn indifferent to it. Then, the patient feels better and stays healthier. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy strengthens you with strategies to manage problems in every walk of your daily life.

Can Bolton Wellbeing Clinic help you out?

David R Behan’s Bolton Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in Bolton is the place where Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is successfully carried out with outstanding results. He is a specialist consultant and analyst. Moreover, David Behan is an accomplished therapist. He performs effectively cognitive behavioral therapy to treat the victims of psychological disorders.

Erection Problems and Their Effective Treatment Options

Fri, 05/16/2008 - 11:52 — Bolton Wellbein...

Erection problems are commonly known as erectile dysfunction or erectile inability. Erection problem arises when a man cannot maintain the firm erection of his penis long enough while having sex. Generally, older men are more prone to suffer from this problem. However, erection problem can arise at any age. Having trouble sometimes to maintain an erection is not necessarily a matter for concern. But, the ongoing erection problem can affect the self-esteem, which in turn causes stress and brings relationships on the rocks.

Formerly erection problems were called impotence. Men could not lift a lid off the problem as freely as they can do now. It was taken into account as a psychological or physiological issue that comes into notice with growing age. Studies have shown that physical factors are more responsible for erection problems than psychological ones.         

An erection results from the interaction of the brain, nerves, blood vessels and hormones. Several physical and psychological factors prevent the interaction. These factors are considered the causes of erection problem. The common ones of them include the following:

- Medical conditions like diabetes, low testosterone, high blood pressure, nerve damage, spinal cord injury, thyroid problem, heart condition and neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease or sclerosis.
- Long intake of drugs such as heart medications like digoxin, blood pressure medications like beta-blockers, sleeping pills, medications for peptic ulcer and antidepressants
- Intake of nicotine, cocaine or alcohol
- Poor communication or relationship with the partner
- Stress, depression, anger or anxiety
- Impractical sexual expectations
- Improper sex            

Older men tend to develop the problem due to physical factors while young men suffer from the problem due to psychological ones. 

Home Care Treatment for Erection Problems

- A curb on intake of nicotine, cocaine and alcohol will help
- Take rest and relax yourself
- Do exercise whenever you are free and be regular about it
- Feed on a healthy and balanced diet that helps maintain good blood circulation
- Use practices or devices that are safe for sex and make it a pleasant experience
- Communicate your problem freely to your partner that will help you get a remedy to the problem.   

Clinical Treatment for Erection Problems

If self-care measures fail to bear fruits and erection problem grows as a serious concern, you should consult a doctor or seek advice from a counselor. Some symptoms like changes in urination, low back pain or abdominal pain necessitate medical treatment of erection problems.

Treatment for erection problems include some clinical tests at the initial phase:

- Urine analysis
- Penile ultrasound
- Blood tests
- Nocturnal penile tumescence
- Psychometric testing
- Neurological testing

The mode of erection problems treatment varies with causes and symptoms of the problem. For example, if hormonal imbalance is the cause of erection problem in your case, drugs to treat the endocrine disorder will be recommended for you.          

Medicinal and psychological are two modes of erection problems treatment. Psychological treatment is of different types. Sex therapy, caressing and relaxation exercises are the most common of them. Techniques of expressing physical perceptions and feeling while making sex fall under category of treatment for erection problems.

Medicinal mode of erection problems treatment requires you to take some medicines for sexual stimulation. Devices such as vacuum pump, elastic ring, extension condom and artificial penis are used in erection problems treatment.    

How Bolton Wellbeing Clinic  can help

David R Behan’s Bolton Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in Bolton is the place where erection problems are effectively treated. David R Behan is a highly trained hypnotherapist and experienced consultant. He treats the patients who suffer from erection problems with special care and brings their life back into order.      

Phobia Types and their Treatment Options

Wed, 05/14/2008 - 14:33 — Bolton Wellbein...

A phobia is an unreasonable, intense and constant fear of certain activities and situations, persons and things. Patients experiencing phobia has an irrational and excessive fear of a particular object or situation. Obsession with that specific object or situation fills their mind with fear that temporarily robs them of their ability to function normally. A phobia sometimes develops into a panic attack.

Anxiety, stress, depression, inactivity, mental inertia, loss of acumen and elocution are the symptoms that persons show when they experience a phobia. Symptoms may be mild or severe depending on certain physical and mental factors. Some persons who show severe symptoms become unable to communicate to their surroundings for a while.

Phobias are of three types:

Agoraphobia: This phobia relates to the fear of some public places. Persons affected with agoraphobia, fear to be trapped and to have a panic attack in some public places.

Social phobia: It is the fear of public performance or specific social situations. Persons affected with social phobia get easily unnerved in some social situations.

Specific phobias: These phobias relate to the fear of specific situations, objects or activities that pose a threat to phobia-affected persons leading to the loss of physical or emotional control.

Treatment Options

There are some self-care strategies and techniques that will help you do away with the problem whereas behavioral therapy and medicines can also work wonders.

Self-care phobia treatment

Self-care is a better treatment of phobia that medication. The most common way to overcome a phobia is to face the object of fear with all the might. Flinching from facing up to the feared object intensifies the impact of phobia on you. It is not wise at all to escape from the phobic situation. Grit your teeth to tolerate the stress until it disappears. Some people do it with help of their families and friends.

Behavioral Therapy

The principle of behavioral therapy involves gradual exposure and desensitization to the object that is the prime cause of your phobia. During the sessions with the therapist, you will learn certain relaxation techniques to tolerate the phobic situation. The extent of exposure to the object of phobia gradually increases during every session. For example, if a particular bird is the cause of your phobia, the therapy involves you from looking at pictures of the bird to handling the feathers of the bird and feeding it with your own hand. Behavioral therapy also includes utterance of an affirmative saying when you become heavy with stress and dizziness under phobic circumstances.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy is the best treatment for those who are affected with any of social phobias. This type to therapy requires you to turn from negativity to positivity. The therapy will empower you with some social skills and interpersonal skills that will help you keep your end up in emotionally difficult situations.

Medicines

Medicines are seldom used as a cure for simple phobias. Doctors recommend antidepressants for severe social phobias and agoraphobia. Anti-anxiety medicines like benzodiazepines may also be prescribed at initial stages of medicinal treatment for phobias. Beta-blockers such as propanolol are sometimes recommended to remove the symptoms of social phobias. However, intake of drugs alone is not highly effective as a phobia treatment.

How Bolton Wellbeing Clinic can help

David R Behan’s Bolton Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in Bolton is a world famous centre for phobia treatment. David R Behan is an accomplished therapist, consultant, and practitioner. He has specialised in Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Time Line Therapy, Counseling, Toxin Testing, Stress and Anxiety management. You can have reliable phobia treatment under the care of David Behan.

 

 

 

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