If you had told me 20 years ago that I’d now be siting peacefully in a hall listening to a bald guy in saffron robes, I’d have called you crazy. Firstly, I didn’t expect to live another two decades. And secondly, if I had somehow managed to survive my mental…

Suicide never just happens. No individual emotion causes it. No single event is responsible for it. People are driven to suicide when they reach a state of extreme hopelessness. This despair is so awful that people believe only suicide can relieve it. But the recipe for suicidal despair requires a…

Sober-curiosity is a “thing” now. With folk becoming more open about struggling with alcohol and liver disease levels rising, more people are trialing abstinence. Searching Twitter on the final day of Dry January, I found that people expressed their experience of sobriety in one of three ways: 1. Why the…

I’m not a heartless bully and I don’t recommend becoming one. But caring too much is a form of cruelty, albeit one disguised as a virtue. It’s good to care, to an extent. But when you care too much, you end up being unkind to yourself. …

Horrid brain, always trying to put a downer your day, throwing up troubling feelings, flashbacks, and fears. From depression to anxiety to PTSD symptoms, is there nothing the brain won’t do to make you feel bad? Don’t get mad at your brain for the pain it causes. It isn’t deliberately…

Mark Twain devised a clever way of looking at worries and was able to banish 92 percent of his anxieties. We’re going a step further than the literary behemoth, aiming for 100 percent deletion of your worries. …

What if I told you that I have recovered from Borderline Personality Disorder, depression, bulimia, self-harm, Social Anxiety Disorder, and alcoholism - and that there was one tiny thing that was the key to recovering from them all? You might think I had become a magician, “discovered” religion, or was…

When I was in my early teens, I started traveling along a Highway to Hell that would probably make AC/DC blush. …

People make some really crazy choices. I know I have. And I’m not talking about buying those eye-watering two-tone pants that I thought were pretty funky when I was 14. Or the time I decided to ‘bleach’ streaks in my hair using actual toilet bleach. I’m talking about how people…