CAN: Breaking Free of the Cycle of Depression and Anxiety If you’ve ever been caught up in a cycle of depression and anxiety, you’ll know how relentless it can be. If you’re feeling very low and unmotivated, you’re also likely to feel terrified of returning to the world of relationships and responsibility. Conversely, if you […]

It’s widely known that people suffering from mental health issues in the UK struggle to find long-term professional support. It’s easy to blame the NHS, but public mental health services aren’t funded enough to provide instant and long term counselling of a high quality. I, like many young women, could have done with some affordable […]

It’s widely known that women have had to fight and wait, then wait and fight, for every basic human right in history. If we were, surprise surprise, a little bit down from all that inequality, we would have been labelled as hysterics back in the day. Things have gotten a little better in the mental […]

It’s now a widely accepted that some persistent medical conditions that appear to have no apparent physical cause can be associated with psychological causes. This process is known as “somatisation”. In her book “Your body speaks your mind” Deb Shapiro gives an example of a simple way to demonstrate the effect thinking has on the […]

The cross governmental definition of domestic abuse is “”Any incident or pattern of behaviour of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 and over who are, or have been intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality. The abuse can encompass but is not limited to: psychological, […]

“Feeling low, no desire to get up and go to work, college or school?  So nervous in fact of meeting that daily event, I snuggle under the covers and sleep.  Yes, sleep will help me escape all those things I am worried about; I had goals and objectives which were so much part of my […]