Help is at hand when under pressure

The quality of important relationships have a very significant influence upon how well, or how healthy, a person is feeling.  If those relationships are under pressure – whether it’s the intimate relationship with a partner, or an inherited relationship with parents, or the precious relationships with children – then it is not unusual for the sadness associated with that to creep into all other aspects of life.  That sadness, those struggles in a valued relationship, show themselves in different ways in different people.  For some people, they may simply feel generally ‘unwell’.  Others may become grumpy, and short tempered, and snappy, even when they really don’t mean to be.  Others may feel extraordinarily tired, or world weary.  Or maybe one just feels very lonely.

Now of course if your car was making an uncharacteristic noise you’d pop it into the garage.  And if you started experiencing regular pains in your body, after mentioning it to a couple of friends and the pain persisting, you’d be likely to make an appointment with your GP.

When relationships are in crisis, however, it does not always feel ok, or even useful, to talk to friends, or ‘bother’ the doctor.

‘Relate’ has been talking to people about their important relationships for decades.  Counsellors meet with couples and with individuals (whether or not they are currently ‘in a relationship’) and they also work with families and with young people. Relate offers a confidential service. 

Exeter & District Relate are very pleased to be able to increase their availability in Okehampton, at the Ockment Centre.  They also offer counselling in Exeter, Barnstaple, Honiton, Tiverton and Taunton.  Simply put, most people who talk to Relate feel better about themselves and their relationships for having given themselves that opportunity.

Relate Exeter & District: 0300 772 9681.