by Laura Prins | Jun 5, 2014 | Anxiety and Depression
Don’t put off tomorrow what you can do the day after, isn’t that how it goes? No, I know that’s not the correct line either, but that’s often what happens. In fact, it shouldn’t be a surprise that I put off writing this post for a few days, even when I knew it was...
by Anna Kinnaird Folkman | Apr 30, 2014 | Anxiety and Depression, Postnatal depression, Transition and change
A friend recently asked me whether it was possible for men to get postnatal depression, to which I replied ‘Absolutely.’ She was referring to her husband’s depressive feelings which seemed to appear following the birth of their second baby. I thought it was an...
by Anna Kinnaird Folkman | Apr 27, 2014 | Anxiety and Depression, News
I couldn’t help but post a comment on a headline I read in this morning’s Telegraph which reads: Lives ‘left in ruin’ by rising tide of depression drugs. A very interesting article for anyone affected by depression, which cites some frightening anecdotal...
by Anna Kinnaird Folkman | Mar 26, 2014 | Anxiety and Depression, Health and illness
Yesterday I had the misfortune of witnessing a small child have a terrible accident. She fell from a height in the playground and struck her head on a brick. Whilst we were waiting for the ambulance we helplessly watched as she came in and out of consciousness and a...
by Anna Kinnaird Folkman | Mar 9, 2014 | Anxiety and Depression
I have been reflecting lately on the curious phenomena of ‘inspiration overwhelm’ –how I describe the state of being suffused with relentless and oftentimes competing ideas and potentialities and the anxiety that they will be forgotten before they can be fully...
by Laura Prins | Feb 20, 2014 | Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety – What kind? When someone comes in for stress counselling or anxiety counselling I find myself spending a lot of time at the outset understanding what, exactly, this means for the person. That’s because anxiety is multi-layered and complex; there’s many...
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