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13/11/2020

GQ poses the question whether past STOPtober we can use this current COVID lock down to help us curb our drinking habits?

With party season curtailed, is this the year to extend your Sober October gains?

09/11/2020

It is so easy to judge rather than waiting to find out all the information. Spending time for making your mind up is an important time during the process of responding not reacting. At greendoorclinic.com we can help you work out how this is done.

02/11/2020

Some how the hardest thing in life is to accept and be yourself. We live behind masks to show the public a happy smile, but this non-authentic way to be is a huge strain on our mental health. Come and speak to our specialists at the Green Door Clinic about how to look after your emotional wellbeing, especially at this time of second wave COVID as we shut down from seeing friends and relatives again. www.greendoorclinic.com

30/10/2020

The clocks have changed, the nights are getting darker, it's Halloween and Bon Fire night coming up soon and the second wave of COVID is here. If you are suffering from anxiety how do cope? Finding someone to talk to and learn new coping skills might be a good way forwards through these uncertain times. Get in touch with us at Green Door Clinic to find out more.

11/09/2020

How do you self-medicate to cope with stress or difficult times? This article gives insight on how to manage our over dependence on alcohol or drugs. Reach out to us for help...

11/09/2020

The Green Door Clinic Daily Check-in - How are YOU doing?
As the world changes around us, what do we need to do to stay well? Here are five key questions to be asking yourself daily -

1. Are you ok with what you are doing?

2. Is your behaviour affecting others?

3. Do you struggle with unhealthy coping strategies?

4. Do you struggle with sleep?

5. Could you do with some flexible immediate support?

At the Green Door Clinic, we understand how important your mental health is. We can understand how easily states of anxiety or addiction arise as maladaptive coping strategies. We are ideally placed to offer you such support and help you learn new ways of being to counter these new habits.

03/09/2020

We think of computers as helping us with many things, but is there an opening for AI to help us when we get depressed? We already know about online apps able to help us meditate when we need to/ have time to, but how about having the computer help diagnose or treat your symptoms as they arise? Green Door Clinic is very interested in this interface with time shifting availability for treatment so that you and your doctors can give a timely response to your emotional needs. We'll post more about this another time - in the meantime here's an interesting article on the topic

Can artificial intelligence help those with depression? Personalized help and support is available at the touch of a screen.

19/08/2020

A fantastic article on ADHD, are we learning to live with "our normal" only to discover we could have had help all those years back for our struggle to keep it all together? Green Door Clinic uses Functional Psychiatry to look at the whole life & body from diagnosis to wellbeing.

Much of what I had fondly considered to be my personality could be understood as a set of elaborate compensations

18/08/2020

Prince Harry has been a long time supporter of mental health, and he has recently spoken with his Invictus Games leaders about the effect of exercise on his personal mental health. At the Green Door Clinic we support the wholistic approach to our patients using Functional Psychiatry including working on the body as an integral part of recovery of your emotional wellbeing. Contact us for more information. For more on the article please read

‘I tried to book Captain America but I managed to get Captain Wales,’ Invictus Games medallist JJ Chalmers says as he introduces Prince Harry on video call

17/08/2020

Following up on yesterday's post, more attention is being paid to exercise as a maladaptive coping strategy for the competitive and type A personality, unless done in a supported and controlled environment with a therapist or fitness instructor like those we work with at the Green Door Clinic, who can see and reflect back to you when you are striving too hard for the unattainable or perfect body. In this time of COVID we have been given the opportunity to spend more time on our personal wellbeing, but social distancing and government regulations have driven a wedge between the supportive exercise groups that can help us to not take things too hard or the constant monitoring that apps push us to achieve more and more without drawing a line. In this article, the advice is to be careful with your mental health while exercising.

The lockdown fitness industry is booming, but Anna Matheson finds the pressure to perform on tracking apps too intense

16/08/2020

A fascinating study by Cambridge University Professor of Neuropsychology Dr Barbara Sahakian and others has discovered that whether or not you have had COVID-19 this last 6 months is likely to have changed your brain physically. The authors recommend use of tools like mindfulness and yoga to help us deal with the effects of anxiety and mood disorders, whether or not we have contracted Corona Virus itself or just spent time worrying about what effects it has had on our future. At the Green Door Clinic we are your key to Emotional Wellbeing. Our clinicians and colleagues can help to support you to find equilibrium at this time of change for everyone of us. We provide flexible fast support in person and using secure online facilities to fit in with your lifestyle. Read the whole article in NATURE by Professor Sahakian through

Whether you have contracted COVID-19 or not, your brain is likely to have changed over the past few months.