by Maryam El Banziqui | Aug 5, 2024 | Mental Health, Society & Behaviour Change
For decades, when we’ve struggled with overwhelming anxiety, deep depression, or confusing voices in our heads, we’ve been handed a single question: “What’s wrong with you?” The answer usually comes in the form of a label, an acronym like OCD, BPD, or PTSD. But...
by Maryam El Banziqui | Aug 3, 2024 | The Brain, Cognition & Neuropsychology
Try this with me for a second. Read these words: Bed. Rest. Awake. Tired. Dream. Wake. Night. Blanket. Doze. Slumber. Snore. Pillow. Peace. Yawn. Drowsy. Now look away from the screen. Write down as many as you can remember. Done? Okay, here’s the question that...
by Maryam El Banziqui | Jul 28, 2024 | Mental Health, Society & Behaviour Change
The first smell that hits you when you walk into certain places, places where people with mental illness are kept. An open sewer running alongside a building. The stench of neglect. The odor of bodies that haven’t been washed in months, years, decades. Tom...
by Maryam El Banziqui | Apr 28, 2024 | The Brain, Cognition & Neuropsychology
Where somatic psychology makes its most powerful contribution: the body structures the present. A client, recalled the facts clearly: the house, the schedule, the routines. Everything sounded… fine. Ordinary, even. She couldn’t understand why she felt...
by Maryam El Banziqui | Apr 28, 2024 | Psychological Therapies
Here’s something that kept me awake this week: A 19-year-old student walks into a room, voice so quiet people constantly say “Huh?” when he speaks. He’s convinced he looks “small, puny, visibly shaking with anxiety, with a strange,...
