There are many reasons why people seek help from therapy and counselling. They might need someone to hear their story; they may want to work on a specific problem or they might need to work through distress in a safe setting. Ultimately though most people come to therapy because they want ‘something’ to change and…
It seems like every other day we see further evidence of particular groups in society finding it difficult to cope. Last week, Simon Jack’s deeply moving Panorama programme about his own father’s suicide, highlighted how middle-aged men are, in the face of multiple pressures, becoming increasingly suicidal. Yesterday, we heard that 1 in 5 teenage…
Well, did you survive it? ‘Blue Monday’; the annual mental health apocalypse that occurs on the third Monday of January? Failed resolutions, Christmas-created debt with pay-day still just out of sight, drained back-to-work-enthusiasm, and bad weather all supposedly contributed to a collective mental fug across the nation yesterday. Journalists and feature-writers, never ones to miss…
I have to say when first reading this article on regrets of those over 50, I felt more than a little sad. Sad for the people who were now so regretful and saddened by the idea that there might be so much dormant regret awaiting couples in particular as, later in life, they see begin to see their…
Ok I’ll admit it. I’m a not-so-secret Corrie fan. Mainly I like the humour; it always seems well-scripted and well-placed among what are often frankly far-fetched and over-dramatic story-lines. Recently though The Street has been widely praised by mental health organisations for giving one its top comic characters; pub landlord and occasional Lothario, Steve MacDonald a…