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.
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There are always going to be things that go on in life that test our patience. Traffic lights, drive time congestion, demanding children, demanding friends. It's good to try and get a better perspective if you can.
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When we don't know what's coming in our future it can be hard to enjoy the present.
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Do you consider yourself lucky or unlucky?
I wonder if the difference between being lucky and unlucky is not necessarily what happens to you but more how you think about it.
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It's not easy to appreciate the small things. But we have way more of them than the big things.
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One thing we can all guarantee is that we'll all receive some sort of criticism at some point.
The trick is to not let it get under our skin. Easier said than done though, but don't let that stop you.
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Over the last 50 years or so there have been a couple of concepts that psychologists refer to, when thinking about romantic love.
This week seems like a good time to explore them.
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When "future you" doesn't even exist, it can be really hard to stick to your plan in the "now" to ensure that future you gets their needs met.
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Back in 1995 when britpop ruled the charts and the UN designated it The United Nations Year for Tolerance, British Telecom started a friends and family service to make it cheaper to call a handful of your favourite people with the slogan It's Good To Talk.
Everyone agreed.
Hopefully we do still think that, don't we?
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If you've ever set a goal for yourself and then found yourself deliberately sticking a spanner in the works knowing full well it'll cause you to fail then welcome to the human race. Because everyone does it.
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I might not the young man I once was, but there is a certain childishness to me that I'm hoping can keep me young.
Looking at the studies into attitude and ageing the odds are in my favour!
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Having free will is generally thought of as a good thing but it also comes with responsibility.
That's why decisions cause anxiety, whether it's about the little things or the big things.
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Most people live their life based around making other people happy to some degree. It's just how far we take it that determines whether or not it becomes a problem.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and its counterpart Complex PTSD, are life-altering conditions.
And although the symptoms may often resemble Anxiety and Depression, they need to be worked on in slightly different ways.
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Prompted by a few emails over the years. Today is all about dealing with having an insecure attachment style and how to best cope in a relationship despite it.
36 questions that lead to love.
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Today is all about biases.
In particular the in-group and out-group bias that drives our emotions way more than it should in the modern world.
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It's often said that there are 3 types of perfectionism. Self-Oriented Perfectionism, Other-Oriented Perfectionism and Socially Prescribed Perfectionism. Let's take a peek into them shall we?
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I have a couple of catchphrases, or if you ask my wife I repeat myself a lot and can be boring and predictable, either way you'll often hear me say one particular phrase.
"The brain can't separate fact from fiction."
If you've got this far through my Podcast series and not heard me say that then I must boring after all because you clearly fell asleep, because I say it a lot. And for good reason.
Gratitude, even about the simpler things in life, helps to dilute down the frustrations about the annoying things. But it's not always easy to find reasons to be grateful is it?
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Seeing as it's Spring, not that you'd know it *shakes fist at the clouds* a time for having a good old clear out.
I thought I'd revisit an old topic and talk about the psychology of stuff this week.
In particular the way our brain can get very confused.
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Someone asked me recently what the difference is between meditation, mindfulness and hypnosis. So I thought I'd go into it a little today and encourage you to take some mindful moments to train your brain.
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