Wednesday night at 9pm BBC2 aired Wonderland – the Trouble With Love and Sex, an animated documentary which gives a behind the scenes look into counselling at Relate. Yesterday night took an intimate look at two couples and a single man as they underwent relationship counselling in a bid to help them resolve their problems. read more »

According to recent research, stressed mothers-to-be are more likely to have hot tempered and unruly children. Alina Rodriguez, a researcher from the Institute of Psychiatry Kings College London studied over 1,700 women and their children and found that mothers who were stressed during their pregnancy, or who had experienced a bereavement or breakdown in a read more »

Figures from the Department for Work and Pensions show that the ratio of incapacity benefit claims for mental illness to those for musculoskeletal disorders has more than doubled between 1997 and 2007. The number of claims for musculoskeletal disorders such as back pain fell by 50 per cent during the 11 year study period, dropping read more »

Figures from a recent study have revealed that the number of young people self-harming in Wales has risen significantly in the past few years. The Children and Young People’s Wellbeing Monitor for Wales has found that though smoking and drinking among teenagers is steadily declining, figures show an increase in the number of teenagers self read more »

Addiction charities are said to have seen an increase in the number of young people seeking help for ketamine use since mephadrone was made illegal in April 2010. Ketamine users are usually drawn to the drug for its hallucinogenic effects, which many claim gives them the feeling of being detached from their body. For medical read more »