A young man came to see me as he has been suffering from insomnia since moving to a new city, but over time it developed into a beast of its own. He's worried about sleeping - he frets over going to bed, he lies there with thoughts of how terrible his next day will be if he can't get enough sleep now, he looks at his clock to confirm that he really hadn't slept by 3am. And then he started getting diarrhoea in the middle of the night because he was so anxious about his sleep,

"The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves." ~ Elvin Semrad We tell ourselves stories to help us make sense of who we are, how we are feeling, what we are doing, why we do certain things. These are formed from past experiences, both personal and learnt through observation of others, to help us form reasonably accurate predictions of what the world around is and how we can anticipate interacting with it. Quick example: even walked down a flight of st

Someone came to me presenting with depression, anxiety, low energy, negative thoughts and all the other classic symptoms of depression. She was also diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis after her last delivery 5 years ago, and was on thyroxine supplementation and was told her thyroid function is "fine". She was already on an antidepressant, and a fairly high dose of it, for many years. She was desperate to feel better but didn't know what she could do, other than being told