A black cloud that hangs over your head, depression can drown out all other things in your life. It seems to dominate your thinking, often keeping pe…

Postnatal Depression is a depressive illness, which affects between 10-15% of mothers and 1-3% of fathers. It can happen to any parent. Having a bab…

Sometimes it can be really useful to identify ways that you feel leave you feeling more stuck. You may find that these unhelpful habits appear more f…

Sometimes the most capable people find it the most difficult to recognise that they are depressed, until it imposes itself in a way that can't be ign…

Is it possible to be truly, deliriously happy? It’s a mood state that most of us yearn for. But it’s a bit like trying to bottle sunshine, it’s ther…

The most common mental problem is depression with 1 in 10 men and 1 in 4 women experiencing periods of real depression during their lives. For those…

For many people, the writing process might be seen as little more than a functional requirement of day-to-day living - anything from the hastily scri…

It sweeps through the lives of its victims, not unlike an uninvited ghost; you feel its presence, but you cannot recollect inviting it in and you hav…

It’s easy to understand how living in today’s recession has become a basis for depression. Families and individuals are suffering from feelings of un…

Do you identify with experiences and symptoms such as significant tiredness, weight loss or gain, an anxious or panic state, negative thoughts, low m…

With the growing recognition of how common depression and anxiety are in today’s society, there has perhaps never been such a demand for ways to trea…

Do you feel drained, unmotivated and hopeless? Do you have difficulty sleeping or feel tearful much of the time? Have you lost interest in things you…