Author: Joan Maycock

Depression affects all of us at some point in our lives, adults, adolescents and children, so it’s important we learn about it. Ranging from mild, moderate and severe bouts, depression

It’s been a while, so let’s do a short re-cap. Our response to negative stressors in our external environment activates the four phases of our stress response in our internal

So, where were we? Oh yes, we were talking about how our emotions, feelings and thoughts colour our moods. As promised, I’ve put some information from my favourite authors, professors

The word ‘affect’ is used to refer to the expression of moods and emotions associated with an idea, action and feeling. Basically, if we talk about positive affect, we refer

Not one moment of our lives goes by without an emotion. Our fight or flight response is our fear and anger response, programmed to warn us of danger and give

As children, we learn some of the most important skills in life including coping skills, just by interacting with parents, siblings and friends. We learn to share, be kind, play,

In 1950, Hans Selye gave us the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS), also known as ‘The Three Stages of Stress’. GAS is the three-stage process that describes the physiological changes the

Every stressor provokes thoughts, feelings, emotions and behaviour. If we constantly ignore these stressors and the consequences of the thoughts, feelings, emotions and behaviour, we push our physical, emotional and

Our first stress response is always an acute stress response, I call this SAM-The Match because it ignites as quickly as striking a match and all going well burns out

Learning the difference between stress as a vague concept and our own personal stressors can be invaluable when we’re faced with difficult situations in our lives, at work, home and