It’s difficult to describe exactly what depression is because everyone’s experience of depression is unique to everyone else’s. People...

It’s almost impossible to believe that food relieves depression; but it does. Researchers at Deakin University ran a study[i] and...

When we’re feeling hopeless and helpless due to a bout of depression, medication may be helpful to give us that mood lift that, somehow,...

You go to your doctor to get help for depression and he prescribes some medication to help ease the depression and anxiety symptoms. So...

What Are The Good Reasons For Taking Medication For Depression? Let’s start with what are the not so good reasons for taking medication...

The Pills Don’t Work It can seem like a bitter pill to swallow when your depression treatment doesn’t work. If this is you, you’re not...

We in the UK are among the most depressed people in the Western world, according to new data released last month from the Organisation...

Smacking children is to be banned in Scotland, the Scottish government has confirmed. The move would make the country the first part of...

My husband Peter died two years ago. He had been suffering skin cancer for many years but became critically ill in the final 18 months....

There is a definite payoff that comes with having recovered from depression. It's generally not spoken about because those people who...

Depression is described in the dictionary as being ‘low in spirit; downcast’. What it actually feels like is a cloud of lead particles...

People who suffer from anxiety disorders have – according to studies – three distinct superpowers. ​​ Although anxiety can feel as if...

Are you distressed? I mean distressed with a capital 'D'? Sometimes there’s just no place to go when you feel that bad. Let me give you...

WHAT DEPRESSION FEELS LIKE Depression is described in the dictionary as being ‘low in spirit; downcast’. What it actually feels like is...

I went to a family memorial service last month for a lovely, old lady who had once been my mother-in-law. Not seen a whole bunch of those...

​​When efforts to bond with our dysfunctional parents failed, the result was confusion and anxiety. In order to survive in a home devoid...

What is a dysfunctional family? Well, there is a huge span when it comes to the term ‘dysfunctional’. It ranges from mildly dysfunctional...

When trying to ascertain which problems afflicted which adult family members when we were growing up, it’s helpful to have a list from...

Dysfunctional families are, according to the acclaimed author Robert Burney, "… the product of an emotionally dishonest, shame based,...

I’ve always had a difficult relationship with food. As far as I can remember I’ve eaten food based on how I felt but never more so than...