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Barriers to seeking support and how to jump over them  Having doubts about seeking support for your mental health is incredibly common. Despite the uncertain times we are living through (and the increase in emotional...

Climate Anxiety... I've got it.     I worry about species going extinct, what will the future be like for my kids, how will global poverty and inequality be addressed when it's the poor who are impacted first and...

There’s a popular idea that we’re meant to spend the night of New Year’s Eve with the people we love the most. It’s also said that how you spend your New Year is how you will spend the rest of the year. For some that’s...

At long last, lockdown is ending! Our restrictions are lifting, and things are changing. So why do I still feel so weird?    I have experienced so many different moods throughout lockdown: the initial shock, the...

I’ve never been very good at self-care.  It’s not a skill that I’ve naturally taken to. Particularly as a guy, I was raised not to worry about things like that. My parents were from the school of “pull up your socks,...

Depression, dyslexia & attachment style - what's the link?    If I were a child today, my learning disability would (hopefully) be diagnosed early and I'd be provided with a package of support to help me...

Content warning: suicide    Losing a mate to suicide, four months on    Four months ago, my mate John took his own life. The time of intense sweeping emotions has passed… No longer the sleepless nights filled with...

Being in pain all the time is exhausting. Sometimes I think “I should be used it by now, it’s been years” and most days I am. I can go about my life with not much interference from the ever-present pain and then other...

Coming Out of Lockdown     I’m sitting in a café next to the Apple store, feeling shattered and staring into space. I’ve just spent an hour being dazzled by the world of 21st Century consumerism, and then an idea...