It’s wrong for someone to form an opinion that a person who seeks a therapist’s help has to be or already has been diagnosed with a mental health issue. Most people benefit from therapy or life coaching for everyday concerns.
Here is the list of the most common psychological problems and situations my clients most often came to see me for:
Emotions
depression, depressed mood
mood swings
feeling a lack of joy
feeling of loss and grief
low emotional stability (worried, easily upset)
constant worry and anxiety (about health , family, work etc.)
panic attacks (anxiety attacks)
Personality issues
- feeling of hopelessness
- lack of meaning of life
- feeling of helplessness
- loneliness
- dissatisfaction with yourself
- неуверенность, застенчивость
- low self- esteem
- lack of self-confidence
- shyness
- lack of sexual self-awareness
- internal (inner) conflicts
- burden of guilt
- victim mentality
- difficulty of making decisions, choices
- low self-efficacy
- chronic disorganization
- difficulty balancing of work and family life
- habit to be easily offended
- fear of flying
- fear of making and receiving phone calls
- fear of public speaking
- fear of intimacy
- obsessive thoughts, doubt
- repetitive actions, rituals (OCD)
- self harm (skin scratching, picking, burning, cutting)
Relationships
| poor communication unhappy relationship conflicts within the family fighting about money with the spouse family conflict with parents/in lows marriage with a foreigner workplace Conflicts child- parent relationship problems in up-bringing children |
children and adolescent behavior problems teenager’s rebellion relationship between step parent and step child relationship between adopted child and parents relationship between adult children and parents same-sex relationship workplace relationship |
Stressful time situations
- relationship breakup
- divorce
- infidelity
- loss of friendship
- loss of loved one
- a miscarriage
- death of a pet
- loss of health, serious illness
- a love one’s serious illness
- loss of safety after a trauma
- loss of a cherished dreamselling the family home
- loss of financial stability
- losing a job
- losing a business, bankruptcy
- starting a new job
- retirement
- moving to foreign country (immigration)
- an adapting to the new country
- midlife crisis
- later life crisis
Psychosomatic issues
(physical symptoms that occur for psychological reasons or connect with them)
| insomnia bed-wetting (nocturnal enuresis) shy bladder low sexual desire unexplained infertility |
psychological symptoms of menopause idiopathic pain (long term pain with an unknown origin) eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia) obesity peptic ulcer irritable bowel |
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