Additional Success Stories
Other psychological issues that The Speakmans have successfully treated are evidenced in films here.
Issues such as: generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks, confidence issues grief and pica.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder vary from person to person, but include constant worrying, a sense of dread and difficulty concentrating.
Things like exercising more and drinking less alcohol can help with generalized anxiety disorder.
Selective Sound Sensitivity Syndrome
Misophonia is a disorder in which certain sounds trigger emotional or physiological responses that some might perceive as unreasonable given the circumstance. Those who have misophonia might describe it as when a sound “drives you crazy.” Their reactions can range from anger and annoyance to panic and the need to flee.
Grief
Sutton Stracke’s father took his life in 2002 and Sutton has struggled to come to terms with her loss ever since. She fell both deep sadness and guilt at his passing.
Loss of a Child
In March 2000, Anita Williamson suffered an unimaginable loss when her 3-year old son was killed by a dustbin lorry. Anita says she now just exists, but has no quality of life, and has lost all the memories of her son. Anita reached out to The Speakmans for help.
Body Confidence
The Speakmans’ Body Confidence class! Offering tips and advice to the Loose Women team on boosting self-esteem and body confidence.
Online Romance Fraud
Romance scammers create fake profiles on dating sites and apps, or contact their targets through popular social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok or Twitter. The scammers strike up a relationship with their targets to build their trust, sometimes talking or chatting several times a day.
Bigamy
Bigamy is the crime of marrying a person while already being legally married to someone else.
Anorexia
Anorexia is generally considered to be a condition which can only be managed, not successfully treated. Nik and Eva Speakman disagree with that view.
Insomnia
The Speakmans meet Dr. Arun Ghosh, as he explores their work - Part 1. Journalist Jordan Paramour is treated for insomnia and sleeping tablet and alcohol dependency issues.
Trichotillomania
Trichotillomania is currently defined as an impulse control disorder and is a compulsion to pull out one’s own hair, eyebrows and eyelashes. The Speakmans say it always starts via a ‘good idea’ then becomes habitual, leading to (but not always being aware of) self harm. Since seeing The Speakmans, Tash has not pulled her hair or picked her skin anymore.
Superstitions
Superstitions are widely held, but irrational beliefs in supernatural influences, especially as leading to good or bad luck, or a practice based on such a belief
Skin Picking
Also called dermatillomania or excoriation disorder, skin picking disorder is where you cannot stop picking at your skin, causing injuries or scarring. The condition falls under obsessive compulsive disorders (OCDs).
Grief
Grief is a natural response to loss. It’s the emotional suffering you feel when something or someone you love is taken away. Often, the pain of loss can feel overwhelming. You may experience all kinds of difficult and unexpected emotions, from shock or anger to disbelief, guilt, and profound sadness.
Hoarding
A hoarding disorder is where someone acquires an excessive number of items and stores them in a chaotic manner, usually resulting in unmanageable amounts of clutter. The items can be of little or no monetary value.
Pica
Pica is an eating disorder that involves eating items that are not typically thought of as food and that do not contain significant nutritional value, such as hair, dirt, and paint chips.
Domestic Violence
Domestic abuse, also called "domestic violence" or "intimate partner violence", can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. Abuse is physical, sexual, emotional, economic or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person.
Weight Loss
Most instances of weight loss arise due to the loss of body fat, but in cases of extreme or severe weight loss, protein and other substances in the body can also be depleted.
Chocolate Addiction
Early food addiction research suggests that sugary foods like chocolate are more addictive than less processed foods.
Food Addiction
Food addiction is a mental health issue in which a person becomes addicted to food, especially fatty foods, sugary foods or processed junk foods. Misophonia is a poorly understood, and under-researched, condition. The term misophonia did not arise to describe the condition until the year 2000, although the condition was described much earlier as selective sound sensitivity syndrome.
Body Dysmorphia
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance. These flaws are often unnoticeable to others. People of any age can have body dysmorphia, however it's most common in both male and female teenagers and young adults.
Electricity Compulsion
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions), such as turning electrics on and off repetitively. These obsessions and compulsions interfere with daily activities and cause significant distress.
Anxiety and Low Confidence
Living with low self-esteem can harm one’s mental health and lead to problems such as depression and anxiety. One may also develop unhelpful habits, such as smoking and drinking too much, as a way of coping.
Selective Sound Sensitivity Syndrome
Misophonia is a poorly understood, and under-researched, condition. The term misophonia did not arise to describe the condition until the year 2000, although the condition was described much earlier as selective sound sensitivity syndrome.
Grief
Grief affects us all in different ways. It's important to remember there is no 'normal' way to grieve.
Body Dysmorphia
You may have body dysmorphic disorder if you worry a lot about how a specific part of your body looks and it affects your daily life.
Treatments for body dysmorphic disorder include talking therapies and antidepressants.
The exact cause of body dysmorphic disorder is unclear. It's been linked to genes, chemical changes in the brain and traumatic past experiences.
Weight Loss
One should focus on eating fewer calories and moving more to achieve a negative energy balance. Weight loss is primarily dependent on reducing the total intake of calories, not adjusting the proportions of carbohydrate, fat, and protein in the diet.