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The movies, the ads, the perfectly curated Instagram pictures of decorations, wrapped presents, and matching family jammies all fuel this idea of what we t

Sometimes, knowing a dark and gloomy autumn is coming can be more depressing than the season itself. If you’re someone with seasonal affective disord

At the end of 2021, I paid £380 for the privilege of a psychiatrist telling me I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This was a huge relief, particularly

Twenty-seven-year-old Erica Kathleen regularly finds herself making private TikTok videos in the middle of the night to “manifestation sounds“.

Imagine not having real control over when you can pee, how clean your kitchen is, or how the room you sleep in is decorated. Well, actually, don’t imagin

Ever wondered what you’d say to a therapist, given the chance? We asked Dr Sheri Jacobson, a retired psychotherapist with over 17 year

Warning: This article mentions suicide. Throughout my life I have become fixated on specific people. In hindsight I see them as regular people, but at the

If you’re someone who deals with stress and anxiety, the unwanted mental and physical effects can creep up during the most inopportune times. Perhaps you

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anna Deacon & Vicky Allan (@wildswimmingphotography) on Feb 10, 2019 at 2:42am PST It was nostalgia, not a

These days, we have more life paths than we could possibly fathom. We know there’s no one way to go about our lives, and that success looks so differ

I’ve been autistic my whole life, but I didn’t know it until late last year. Truthfully, I went through most of my life never even thinking about autis

To sleep, perchance to dream? While plenty of us leave our chances of a pleasant nighttime adventure — the kind that makes you rush up to the first perso

Warning: The following includes descriptions of intrusive thoughts that some readers may find distressing. Have you ever been standing on a train platform,

When Beth* started therapy, she was shocked to find herself having sexual fantasies about her much older, male therapist. “I would go into the sessio

March 2020 seems like yesterday and a million years ago all at once. COVID-19 had started to spread around the UK but life was cautiously carrying on as no

The unspooled roll of hospital paper dulls the coldness on my back as I lie on the bed, waiting for expert hands to weigh up the scale of my disproportiona

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it happened but at some point in the last five years, the way I fall asleep changed. Instead of reading before turning

We're obsessed with sleeping well. And because of that, the sleep hygiene industry is booming. But which products are worth it?