After about ten years of waking up every morning - thats 3,650 times - wishing I could go to Prague and wander through narrow cobbled streets, staring up at dolls houses the size of mansions, and pay 50p for a pint of vodka.. I actually went last week. I can...

To some extent we all have some attachment issues, even if very little, even if we don't even know. Same as rejection, same as abandonment, same as horizontal stripes make you look fat issues.

Although I have absolutely no idea where mine came from.. I wasn't breast fed so...

If there's one thing I learnt in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) it's that we have to take something positive from every negative experience. Or was it other way around? Well.. I recently went on a spendathon. It's not shopping that I have an addiction to - when I'm manic I...

We're living in the future, Back To Future II is set only two years from now, I haven't seen any hoverboards or self drying clothes but I have noticed that we are more intelligent than ever and have access to so much more information, so why do broadsheets and tabloids...

Just how honest are we on internet dating profiles? We like people to see our best bits, our qualities, the things we are proud of, so we leave out the flaws, the weaknesses, the things we wish we didn't have. We upload our best picture, the one that say's attractive,...

My New Year's resolution this year was to start smoking and so far it's going very well.

Admittedly I hated it to start with, namely the head rush, and had to pour cans of Coke down my neck to combat the taste, but in order to give up a guilty...

'Tis the season to bicker all the way to the in-laws, or is it? Here's some popular disputes and how to prevent them...

"I'm not doing the driving"

When I was growing up, my family all lived down the same street, nowadays hardly any of us live in the...

Many of us are choosing a greener lifestyle, and that goes for medication too. Holistic therapist Sorrell Robbins explains "The idea of alternative medicine - namely herbs - is to help moderate and balance the individual alongside medical and/or psychiatric care and not to cure conditions that mainstream doctors were...

Here are some of the common misconceptions of mental health I've heard over the years (and calmly kept schtum).

"Depression isn't a mental illness, everyone gets depressed"

Being depressed because you've just been dumped whilst listening to back to back Smiths albums and Facebook updates suggest all your friends are...

Today I drank coffee from a mug that say's "Tea" on it and I didn't even freak out!

I'd say that is pretty sweet progress considering I've been sleep deprived and over stimulated lately. 

I've been busy advocating on behalf of Mental Health as usual, and this week I was...

Around this time of year, post boozy barbecues, afternoons spent in the beer garden, summer holidays and of course, wedding reception antics, we start to tell ourselves "that's it, I'm on the wagon" and "no, I mean it this time", and like January we last less than a month.

Being...

Now the main games are over, the general public of London commuters seem to be back to their old selves - if a stranger speaks to them on the Tube they pretend they don't hear for being engrossed in their book.

During this time people seemed genuinely nicer to...

It recently came to my attention that the best person to assess a client with mental health needs is in fact, the postman. Firstly, yes I have been taking my lithium. Now, think about it, the postman, if a regular to the same address, ticks the box that good psychiatry...

Last weekend provided East London with a sun scorching through a clear blue sky, the busiest streets streets I've seen this year, and the annual Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair.

Usually days as hot as these I stay indoors and leave the taps on - am definitely more of a...

You may be familiar with the term manic depression, where a typical sufferer's moods shifts from manic to depressive in episodes, often triggered by stress, but also brought on by the fact that they are, just manic depressive.

As with most labels, it has been given a trendier name...bipolar...