The Basic Human Needs for Good Mental Health and Emotional Well-being

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If you are suffering from an emotional problem such as depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour or repetitive addictions, there is only one place you should start when looking for a solution. Your basic human needs.



It seems obvious, but all too often, when it comes to psychology, common sense goes out the window, and the textbooks come off the bookshelf. Why not leave them there for just now, and ask yourself the following questions...

- If you had no petrol in your car, would you be wondering why it won't start?

- If your garden hadn't seen rain for 6 months, would you be racking your brains about why all the plants had died?

Of course not. But ask human beings to apply the same objective observation to their own lives and you are setting a much trickier task, as you will see from these two case studies from our clinic: 1) Stressed Out 2) Loner

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