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This is a subjective review of: Coping with Depression. A guide to what works for patients carers and professionals by Dr Costas Papageorgiou, Dr Hannah Goring and Dr Justin Haslam After a brief introduction the book starts with a chapter by an unnamed patient of theirs whose health problems were attributed to repeated cycles of […]
As you may know if you follow Ackadia, I’ve been struggling with ill-health for several years now and spells of sometimes suicidal levels of chronic depression, the last – current – spell being especially bad, probably the worst. Details don’t matter but I had myself put in hospital before I got any worse and am […]
You know in all the ‘action movies’ where the besieged heroes are valiantly crossing the decrepit rope bridge, rotten boards breaking off and falling hundreds of feet down into the chasm, rope or vines on the main cable coming apart, one strand at a time? Well, that’s life. Stuff happens. You get over it. Sometimes […]
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You have to laugh how all of a sudden it almost seems fashionable to be “depressed”. You can almost hear the PR people and ‘celebrity’ agents minds ticking over with this… Agent: “Have you seen the coverage Catherine Zeta-Jones is getting? Get out there now and admit you have a problem” (a through z-list star) […]
Service Update 30th April 2008 Yes, I know, nearly a year after I said I’d get on with it… Please miss, I got a letter from me mam From the doctors really, currently dealing with a HSP, a degenerative neural disorder that, amongst other things causes your muscles to atrophy. Had it about ten years […]
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