Pure OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is an unfortunate state of mind, which a surprising number of us may suffer from,...
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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:...
It sounds very improbable of course: Me? Die? How could something so unexpected happen to someone like me! And yet...
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...
One of the dangers of emotional life is that we find that we don't feel 'in the moment': we're at...
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...
From our earliest days, all of us are set on a path towards physical growth and maturity. What is less...
The death of a loved one is pretty much the saddest thing that can befall us. The French 16th century...
We all know how lovely friendship can be, but we seldom focus properly on what a good friend should actually...
For some of us, having to eat alone in public in a restaurant is a major challenge - for reasons...
We spend an inordinate amount of time concentrating on the question of whether or not we are liked. It would...
One of the reasons many of us find social encounters difficult is that they force into that particular conversational byway...
