When you don't take time out from life, your feelings becomes a blur. Itislikereadingwithoutanypunctuationitishardtomakesenseofeachindividualword T…

Mindfulness is growing in popularity and, as more research is being done all the time, it is proving to be a powerful tool in dealing with the stress…

A drug for multiple sclerosis could be re-purposed to erase bad memories for those who have suffered trauma.

Introduction. The World Health Organisation (WHO) (2007, web accessed February 2014) defines mental health as being not just the absence of a mental…

ACT (pronounced act, not spelt out) is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) related therapy that has over thirty years of research evidence to suppo…

We all experience a wide range of emotions. There are many emotions which we experience as a pleasant e.g. love, happiness, pride, relief, enjoyment…

Thousand of people are affected by trauma every year. This can be the result of rape, car accidents, abuse in all its forms or exposure to traumatic…

We have all heard phrases like he wears his heart on his sleeve but the reality is that we spend a great deal of time suppressing our feelings. In ma…

In his recent poem, ‘Sentenced to Life’, Clive James speaks of how his experience of the advanced stage of terminal leukaemia and emphysema has opene…

Anxiety is a normal and everyday experience and yet it is almost universally viewed as problematic. The majority of people who go to see their doctor…

New research finds that first-time mothers are at risk of developing symptoms of depression.

Before I started working with people who self-harm I could not reconcile in me the possibility that someone who already suffers greatly emotionally c…