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FOUR TIPS FOR WHEN YOU’RE
HANGING AT THE END
OF YOUR ROPE Hitting rock bottom is one of life’s most difficult moments. It can happen for professional, personal, financial, or health reasons. Frequently several intertwine, creating a nightmare from which you can’t awaken. Without psychological tools and tips such as those listed below, things deteriorate. You might resort to alcohol, antidepressants, sleeping pills, recreational drugs, gambling, risky sex, or worse. WORDS GABRIELLA KORTSCH
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ecognise that you, yourself, by continually watching potentially ‘negative’ news channels offering sensationalism to keep you in a state of fear and therefore keep you watching, maintain yourself in that bad place. Stop watching. Ditto much of social media and the online tabloid press.
140 / APRIL 2021 ESSENTIAL MAGAZINE
1 TAKE A REALITY CHECK Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at reality versus myth. Hanging at the end of your rope, you might place greater emphasis on myth than reality. In a panic attack you may be unable to fly, fearing a crash. Statistical reality demonstrates a much lower possibility of a plane crash than a
traffic accident. Using this kind of ‘reality’ versus the ‘myth’ you have in mind, helps bring about inner change over time. 2 LOOK INTO PAST EXPERIENCES OF SUCCESS A German word – Erfolgserlebnis – signifies ‘experience of success’. Your experience! Search your past
