Read our posts about Depression

28Jul

How Food Can Affect Depression

Rachel Kelly

depression, nutrition, wellbeing

Mind

Your choice of food can affect your recovery from depression, and help keep you on an even keel says Rachel Kelly
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25Jul

How Sports Protect Girls' Self Esteem

Terri Apter

anxiety, depression, exercise, women

Body

Dr Terri Apter explains how engaging in sports can improve the body image and overall confidence of teenage girls and help to reduce depression.
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06Jun

Losing My Identity: Sally Brampton

Sally Brampton

depression, identity

Soul

Quite recently, I lost my identity, which sounds rather careless given that I hadn't, until some days had passed, realised it was missing. It started with a phone call, one sunny morning. Something I had loved, and had spent years involved with in happy occupation, was taken away. It took all of three minutes. I put down the phone and looked around the room. Nothing had changed. Everything was still in its place. But everything had changed. Once I had dusted myself down, I shrugged and thought, "Well, that's that. Time to move on." I didn't take it...
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05Jun

The Beautiful Game and Depression

Lorne St

anxiety, depression, men, mensmentalhealth, society, suicide

Soul

Footballer Gary Speed, former captain-turned-manager of the Welsh national team, had movie star looks, a million pound mansion, a beautiful young wife and two sports-obsessed sons. He seemed to have the world at his feet. But three years ago he took his own life after an embittered battle with depression. With the World Cup in Brazil only days away it is easy to cloak our footballers with the super human strength of gladiators in Ancient Rome. However when the arena clears and the applause dies away, cases like Speed’s are sadly far from rare. A study carried out by...
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23May

Culture Tip: All in the Mind

Camilla Nicholls

culture, depression

Soul

I had to stop the car when I was driving home from the Tavistock clinic recently. There was nothing wrong with me, or the car, I just needed to focus on what was happening on the radio. A young woman, Sally, suffering from long-term depression and what she described as a ‘constant state of disassociation’ was telling presenter Claudia Hammond why she was nominating her friend, George, in the individual category for the BBC All in the Mind 25th Anniversary Awards. She read out part of the email she had sent to the programme in support of her nomination. Anyone who...
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18May

Coming Off Anti-Depressants

Anonymous Therapist

depression, drugs, psychotherapy, therapy

Therapists

I've just come off my anti-depressants. I'm grateful for the drugs that helped me for so long to bridge the gap between darkness and light.
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21Apr

Help Beat Depression by Reading Poetry

Rachel Kelly

depression, mindfulness

Soul

We are sent what we need. So it proved recently when I finished an eight-week mindfulness course with the inspirational Anna Black, teacher and author of Living in the Moment with Mindfulness Meditations. I suspected she believed in the healing power of words as she had introduced several poems on our course. As I was leaving her class one rainy Tuesday evening recently, I told her that I shared her enthusiasm for poetry.  It transpired that she had written a dissertation looking at the therapeutic role of poetry in the teaching of mindfulness as part of her Masters...
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21Mar

Talking to a Friend Isn't the Same as Therapy

Welldoing

anxiety, counselling, depression, therapy

Mind

Guardian journalist Zoe Williams and her therapist friend Julia Bueno discuss how therapy works and what it can mean to people
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22Jan

What is Trauma?

Nicole Addis

anxiety, bereavement, depression, divorce, redundancy, stress, therapy, trauma

Therapists

Trauma affects us in various ways and can come from a wide range of events. Psychotherapist Nicole Addis explores the symptoms of trauma and what might cause it
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20Jan

Beat Blue Monday

Lucy Beresford

depression, stress

Therapists

As if Mondays didn’t always get a bad press for being the most miserable day of the week, now apparently we need to be alert for the fact that today is Blue Monday – the most depressing day of the year. Although not actually proven by science, anecdotally it would seem that the perfect storm of bad weather, post-Christmas family angst, a flurry of credit card statements, and the dawning realisation that we’re wobbling on our New Year’s resolutions, can make even the most glass-half-full person feel bleak. To some extent, the idea of one day of the year being worse than...
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