In This episode Alice interviews prof. Joanna Moncrieff, practicing psychiatrist and professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London.

Together they discuss:

The origin and evidence for the current theory of mental distress: The Theory of the Chemical Imbalance in the Brain.

How to chose if to start medications

How to stop medications

and the help available

So that you can make an informed choice!

You can find the information on antidepressant on the UK Royal College of Psychiatry HERE

The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines HERE

More information on prof. Joanna Moncrieff HERE

and her books:

Chemically Imbalanced HERE

Straight Talking about Psychiatric Drugs HERE

The Myth of the Chemical Cure HERE

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The way we interpret reality determines how we feel and how we act in life and the response from the world.

So by changing our interpretation of reality, we can change how we fee and what we do, and therefore the response of the environment.

In this episode Alice explains what the Confirmation Bias is and describes a few techniques that you can use to challenge thoughts when unhelpful.

To know more about the techniques explained in this episode, please have a look at the Living a Meaningful and Successful Life program: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/meaningful-successful-life-online-course

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You can access the FREE resources here: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resources

and to know more about the Confirmation Bias, please read on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

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In this episode Alice explains why fear is not the enemy and what to do to overcome it.

You do not want to overcome the Ring of Fear just for the sake of it, you want to overcome it when that particular fear is a limitation to living the life you want to live.

The only way to overcome fear is to go through it and emerge on the other side, expanding your comfort zone in the process.

Stop going around in circles inside your comfort zone, make friend with fear and start moving in the direction of what you value in life.

Free resources to do so: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resources

Send questions to: mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk

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Knowing your internal motivators is essential to have direction, motivation and purpose in life.

In this episode, Alice will guide you in differentiating between internal and external motivators and

will help you to identify your Values: the everlasting internal motors of our lives.

To know more about Values, please watch our Values Vs Goals video in our FREE resources on :

https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resources

To join the waiting list for the next intake of the Living a Meaningful and Successful Life program, please visit:

https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/meaningful-successful-life-online-course

If you have any questions, please send them to: MentalChats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk

and if you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a great review and share it, share it, share it with anyone you care about helping on their life journey.

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In this episode Alice explain the 5 essential steps you need to take to create the life you want to live.

If you have any questions on the concept explained, please email us at MentalChats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk and we will do our best to answer in one of the next episodes.

In this episode, Alice also talks about the Hero's Journey. To know more about the Hero's Journey visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

To have a look at our Living a Meaningful and Successful Life programme visit: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/meaningful-successful-life-online-course

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In this episode Alice explains why our emotions are healthy helpful responses and what the function of Fear, Anger, Sadness and Joy is.

Any questions, please emails us at mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk

To access our FREE resources visit: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-online-courses

For more detailed information on the scientific research about primary emotions visit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_accounts_of_emotion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification

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Welcome to the first episode of the Mental Chats podcast!

In this episode Alice will explain the aims for this podcast and will introduce the theoretical models she uses to help people improve their lives in her daily work as a Clinical Director at Crossroads Psychology.

These are: CBT, Mindfulness and ACT, models that you will soon learn, and that you can apply to your life, to change it, improve it, or perfect it.

You can find the Crossroads Psychology's FREE resources mentioned at https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resources

If you like this podcast, please leave us a review and share it, share it, share it with friends and family.

This will help us to reach more people and improve more lives.

If you have any questions, topics that you would like Alice to cover, or you would like to be featured on the podcast, please send an email to mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk

References:

Evidence of effectiveness of CBT

https://babcp.com/What-is-CBT/Cognitive-Behavioural-Therapy-Whats-the-Evidence

The efficacy of CBT, a review of meta-analyses

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584580/

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