After Lockdown 1, there was a phase when people asked ‘have you had a good lockdown?’ That seems pretty unlikely for anyone suffering with poor mental health but for one person with a diagnosed anxiet...
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It’s been an anxious making year for everyone and I’ve certainly not been immune. As well as all the issues of the pandemic, my brother died in May, my sister in law is now very ill (both...
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Little story: when my formerly dotty and very neurotic horse (Arab cross thoroughbred, an inflammable combination) had to travel in a horsebox, which he loathed, we used to dab lavender oil under his...
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Filmmaker Emma*, 55, a mother of two and recent grandmother, gave this account of her experience with an online CBT programme recommended by her GP to help manage her feelings of anxiety and depressio...
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Endometriosis affects around 1.5 million women in the UK and between 30 to 50% of those may experience infertility, according to the charity Endometriosis UK. This chronic and often debilitating condi...
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It was a sunny weekday morning, about 10.30, but I wasn’t working. I was living in north London and my housemate was away. I thought it would make a good start to the day to have a vodka and ton...
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