This blog post has been bubbling away for a while. I want to write about the process that I’ve found helpful when struggling with difficult...
This is more of a personal post than most that I write but I’m including it here rather than in the offline journal where I...
Telegraph agony aunt Petra Boynton has put together a great set of suggestions going into 2014, drawing all many of the people who’ve advised her...
Recently Diabetes UK have been running an advertising campaign that sits uneasily with me and with a lot of my friends. In their posters they...
The inevitability of treating partners as things? Romance in Ruby Sparks (and why I like the ending)
Recently I got round to watching last year’s Ruby Sparks on DVD. I’d been looking forward to watching this film for some time because it...
Today is World Mental Health day so I thought I’d write a post about mental health in relationships. My own position on mental health is that we...
It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet told himself that never in all his life, and he was goodness knows how old –...
A number of news pieces in recent weeks have discussed a new report which found that only 25% of people with mental health problems get the help that they...
Yesterday I found myself reflecting on two different issues that I think about a lot: depression and conflict. I’m about to start writing a chapter...
A Finnish study last week reported that people who live alone have an 80% increased risk of depression compared to those who live in families....