At the age of 25, Helena Cameron weighed 20 stone and couldn’t walk to the car without her feet throbbing. Helena first started piling on the pounds as a teenager. Anxiety problems caused her to binge eat junk food and gorge constantly on chocolate, crisps and fizzy drinks. She admits that she’d often eat a read more »

BeautifulPeople.com, notorious for its shamelessly ‘high’ membership standards, rejects 85-88% of all British applicants for being too ugly.  It has emerged that only 15% of UK females and 12% of UK males who have tried to join the VIP group of adonises and aphrodites, ever make it onto the dating site. Membership is granted to read more »

Asperger Syndrome is characterized by repetitive behaviours or rituals, socially and emotionally inappropriate behaviour and interaction, preoccupation with a subject to the point of the exclusion of other activities and uncoordinated movements. Many with Asperger’s will also experience anger and temper outbursts, usually as a result of intense anxiety. Many of the mentioned symptoms can read more »

Self concept is a persons awareness of themselves and how they feel about their own personality and skills. Along with feelings in the present it can also refer to how we felt about ourselves in the past. A number of recent studies have found hypnotherapy to have a hugely positive impact on a person’s self-concept, read more »

World famous hypnotist Paul McKenna made an appearance on this mornings edition of GMTV (22nd July) with Lorraine Kelly’s stand in Fiona Phillips. The self help guru to the stars was there to talk about his updated version of worldwide bestseller ‘Change your life in 7 days’ a self improvement book which teaches core strategies read more »

With the UK having one of the highest self-harm rates in Europe questions are being raised about the quality of health care available to them. In a self-harm report conducted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists over half of the 1,500 members surveyed felt they or their team did not have sufficient training to assess read more »

Body dysmorphic disorder is a chronic illness which characteristicly sees its sufferers preoccupied by a minor defect, feature or body part. This obsession often leads to problems with social functioning as the patient will view themselves as loathsome. The disorder differs from eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa due to the latter being focused on read more »

A number of Bristol mothers to be are turning to hypnotherapy to help them eliminate bad habits before the birth of their baby. Many of them hope the therapy will help them to quit smoking and cut down their alcohol intake as well as learning to cope with the stress a new family member can read more »

Excessive sweating is a rather embarrassing affair and unfortunately is not a problem solved simply by changing your antiperspirant. If this problem has resulted in low self confidence and anxiety then it may be time to get serious about tackling it. It is a relatively rare issue but there are ways of reducing it. Many read more »

It doesn’t matter whether we are at school, on a stage or standing in front of colleagues ready to give a presentation, stage fright can effect anyone leaving them unable to perform to the best of their ability. Feeling nervous is natural and a few nerves can actually enhance a performance, however if performance fear read more »