The Richard Nicholls Mental Health Podcast
To inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be. Learn about tackling mental health problems like Anxiety and Depression as well as simple tips to understand the world better, in a down to earth and genuine way with the Best Selling Author and Psychotherapist Richard Nicholls.
Positive Self Talk
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The words in our head and the words we hear ourselves say have a surprising influence on our life. It's worth checking sometimes whether the self talk we have is a friend or a foe.
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Love Yourself
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It may be Valentine's Day this month, a day to remind someone that you love them, but I think we very often need to bring it closer to home.
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Manipulating Emotions
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Bit of a psychological education episode today all about our decision making and how our emotions can influence it.
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First Impressions Count?
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Is it true that first impressions of something or someone stick?
Yes and no is the rather annoying answer.
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Money Makes The World Go Round?
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This week's shorter podcast episode is about hedonic habituation, which is the desensitisation we experience to our material things.
But if buying things doesn’t ultimately influence our happiness for very long, then what does?
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What If?
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Problems can begin when catastrophic thinking turns into a habit. When our brains constantly predict the worst, it soon becomes our go-to response, reinforcing a cycle that feels real and unavoidable. As if those thoughts are based on reality rather than imagination.
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Creating Emotions
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In order to figure out the best ways to regulate emotions, Psychologists need to find ways of creating the emotions in the first place.
Today we're going to look how to do that and why it's worth it.
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Cognitive Distortions
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Cognitive Distortions are the thinking traps where our mind convinces us of something that isn't actually true.
Once habitual and almost a part of our personality, they can very often start the ball rolling for depression and anxiety.
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<...Other Peoples Anxiety
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To some people, the idea of a walk in the park is exactly that.
A walk in the park.Â
To someone else though, it's a minimum of 7 out of 10 on the "I feel like something horrible is about to happen" scale.
Everyone has their own unique way of feeling and reacting and will need a unique reaction from you too.
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Creating Emotions
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In order to figure out the best ways to regulate emotions, Psychologists need to find ways of creating the emotions in the first place.
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