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Brainmenu - providing food for thought on depression and anxiety
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I blame the medication but now I have a blog to let you know about my experiences of depression, anxiety and perfectionism and how they affect my life. I hope you enjoy my tips and advice that I provide but do not follow myself!
Recent Posts
Mental Health News – 13/11/2009
Round-up of Mental Health news for the UK for the past week. Depression The issue of mental health and criminals is often in the media and the BBC news web site this week reported “the courts are making insufficient use of the main non-custod...
What is compassion anyway?
Visiting the Charter for Compassion web site I thought what a great idea and posted about it on my blog. It was a no brainer really, surely everyone wants the world to be a more compassionate place and then it struck me… What is compassion anyw...
Charter for compassion
Just discovered the Charter for compassion web site and I am looking forward to visiting it again on the 12th of November to read some of the contributions. “The Golden Rule requires that we use empathy — moral imagination — to put ...
An experience of mindful awareness
Every now and then I have a thought and as the thought forms, I realize the truth of the thought. On one particular occasion I was at a retreat in Suffolk and standing by the pond when I thought how nice, quiet and peaceful it was. No sooner had that...
Will reading self-help books make you better?
Over the years I have read many self-help books, articles and blogs about depression, anxiety, perfectionism and more recently mindfulness. People who know me consider me to be pretty knowledgeable on the subject of mental health but it’s bee...
Can depression be cured?
Remembering when times were really bad I can recall thinking about whether depression could ever be cured. I searched the Internet for blog and forum posts about people who were depressed hoping that I might find someone who has been cured. What I d...

