Rohan Misthry

But That Happened Years Ago! Sometimes people can experience difficult feelings or thoughts that seem disconnected from what is happening in their present life. They may have experienced something difficult many years ago and feel that they have “moved on”, only to be surprised when anxiety, other difficult emotions or memories emerge later. A common belief is that because so much time has passed, it can't be possible that the experience is still affecting us. However, the pa

Many people who come to counselling frequently describe to me a constant feeling of anxiety that seems difficult to switch off. Their minds may feel busy, they find themselves overthinking conversations, worrying about the future, or feeling permanently on edge. Sometimes there is a clear reason for this anxiety, but often people struggle to understand why it feels so persistent. When anxiety becomes a regular part of daily life, it can be easy to see its symptoms as the prob

Recognising trauma as a personal experience Sometimes we can experience events in our life that are highly stressful and difficult to cope with. We might see these experiences as examples of trauma. How we understand something as traumatic is very personal and subjective, other people can’t know or decide what is or has been traumatic for you. Even two people who experience the same event, where both understand it as traumatic, can react to it very differently. Examples of t

The Pandemic of Fear We are living in interesting times. The initial outbreak of the Corona Virus has gone in a few months from a local virus outbreak in China to becoming a global pandemic, with thousands infected across the globe and as of writing, Europe now as the centre of the pandemic. It has been hard to keep up with the pace of events, I have had to rewrite this article several times for it to be relevant. As the Corona virus has spread another unseen epidemic has als

Have you ever found yourself not being able to stop thinking about something? Maybe you keep replaying an argument you had or a situation at work or a problem in your personal life. The same thoughts keep going round and round in your head and each time they do you feel even more worried and distressed? To varying degrees, we all experience this phenomena at some points in our life, that catchy tune or line from a song that gets stuck on repeat in your head. However research