Mental Health Awareness Week
The theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is Anxiety. The Mental Health Foundation has found that anxiety is one of the most common mental health problems that we can face. But, what is anxiety and how can we tackle it?
The human ability to ‘think ahead’ means that we can anticipate problems, and it allows us to plan effectively. As ‘thinking ahead’ can help us to achieve our goals, it can be seen as adaptive. Worrying, however, can quickly turn into unhelpful ‘thinking ahead’. To worry means to think about problems that might happen in a way that leaves you feeling anxious or apprehensive. Worry is experienced as a chain of thoughts and images which can progress in increasingly catastrophic and unlikely directions. It is often experienced as uncontrollable and seems to take on a life of its own.
Accessing the pre-recorded workshop
This 30-minute, practical pre-recorded workshop brought to you by Westminster Talking Therapies will share strategies to overcome stress and worry using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). It will give you tips on how to differentiate between helpful and unhelpful worries, and how to tackle them. It will be available to view for the entirety of Mental Health Awareness Week. If you are interested in this workshop, please contact [email protected] for further information and to gain access.
