Unrequited love is always going to be the poor relative of the requited kind, but that is no reason to...
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When we think of a privileged childhood, we often think of swimming pools, nannies and expensive education. In fact, of...
Psychotherapy holds out the promise of being able to help us with many of the problems that ruin our lives:...
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It sounds very improbable of course: Me? Die? How could something so unexpected happen to someone like me! And yet...
Some of us find it deeply romantic and attractive to imagine helping, or indeed 'rescuing' someone else; we have what...
Thanks for watching! Read all about Sanjay here http://bit.ly/richroll446 I finally got to sit down with a good friend, incredible...
Stoicism is a philosophy worked out in Ancient Greece and Rome thousands of years ago, but it remains hugely relevant...
Feeling mentally unwell remains a huge taboo - that we would nevertheless be wise to try to discuss without shame....
We sometimes imagine, especially when we're young, that happiness is made up of huge things, like lots of money, fame,...
Underlying so many of our emotional problems lies one phenomenon above any other; shame. Feeling misguidedly and disproportionately ashamed of...
Some of us feel most at home not in obviously beautiful or homely places, but in desolate, melancholy ones, places...
Most of us are aware that, around certain topics, we're uncomfortably easily 'triggered', that is, we react with far too...
Hypervigilance is a term psychologists use to refer to those among us who are locked into a state of almost...
The key to being heard by our partners is to accept that we have to become strategic about the way...
Most of us think we know what love is; we may just be looking for the right person to lavish...
One of the dangers of emotional life is that we find that we don't feel 'in the moment': we're at...
Breaking up will always be something of a mess, but that's not to overlook the far better or distinctively worse...
It's tough of course not to have been loved much by one's parents; but there's a real challenge too in...
Attachment theory refers to a set of ideas formulated by psychologists in the 1960s that gives us an exceptionally useful...
