Monthly Archives: March 2008

I recently read about a concept called Stress Hardiness, which was first coined by Susanne Kobasa. To cut a long story short stress, in whatever form it enters your life, is a contributing factor to anxiety. If we can control … Continue reading →

I have always secretly harboured ambitions of becoming a writer. In fact when I was younger I wrote three novels….sadly none of them were published and maybe it’s easy to see why. How is this linked to anxiety? Keep reading, … Continue reading →

The credit crunch, insolvency, debt, Bear Stearns, repossession, inflation, sub-prime. All of these words are enough to cause palpitations in even the toughest! As the western world deals with a financial crisis, many normal people are feeling the squeeze and … Continue reading →

I just received a comment on one of my blog posts entitled Coming Off Citalopram. It raises a very pertinent question that I shall endeavour to answer. I just read your blog. I came off Citalopram about 10 days ago … Continue reading →

Gene’s do not control our mood. That is the message I took from a BBC report of an Edinburgh University study which has looked at mood in siblings and identical twins. The story is called Genes ‘play key happiness role’, … Continue reading →

Social Phobia – which is basically severe and acute shyness – is an incredibly common phenomena. But is there any real point in labelling severe shyness as a mental illness? Does it in fact make it more ingrained in the … Continue reading →