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Although depression is a form of mental ill-health that has been written about extensively and is a diagnosable category with common symptoms that ca…

I remember a conversation with someone a couple of years ago in which she told me she hadn’t cried for over 10 years. I was shocked at this disclosur…

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Do you begin each new relationship bending over backwards to please your new partner? Do you fall in line with their plans, their needs, and wants, w…

As the cold, hard edge of winter closes in, most of us experience some kind of mood change. Darkness descends - we go to work in the gloom and come h…