Anxiety and depression
Anxiety and depression

The nature of anxiety

For many people, anxiety is an ever-present, and distinctly unwelcome, companion. Sometimes it can erupt into a full blown panic attack, but often it’s just there in background: a barely perceptible but continual sense of unease, a sense of anticipation that something unnamed but terrible is about to happen. And …

Understanding depression

Along with anxiety, depression is probably one of most common mental health problems in this country. It is estimated that over 6 million people suffer from depression and/or anxiety in England.  However, these numbers tell us little about the true nature of depression. In other words, what it is to …

On pre-natal depression

Today the Daily Mail ran an article about pre-natal depression.1   According to the article’s author, Rachel Ragg, pre-natal (antenal) depression affects between 10% and 15% of mothers-to-be, but in spite of this, little is known about it and it is rarely discussed.  In fact, Ragg goes on to write about …

On middle-aged men in crisis

In my previous post I wrote about the problem of suicide amongst middle aged men.1 It seems that this group has the highest suicide rate in this country, and one suggestion is that this is to do with the current economic situation.  In my post I argued that there could …