Taking responsibility for your own wellbeing
Up to five million people are stressed by work and as many as 9.8 million working days were lost due to stress in the year 2009/10, according to a Health and Safety Executive survey. While most of this stress is described as work-related, in reality there are often many other contributing factors. Stress is a [...]
Burning the candle at both ends is something many young people do when they’re enjoying themselves. For millions of Britons lack of sleep has nothing to do with enjoyment. The new Mental Health Foundation report, Sleep Matters, found that 30 per cent of people do not sleep well – having three or more nights’ disturbed [...]
Few people realise the importance of a good night’s sleep – during the night while we are dreaming our bodies are healing themselves. We need sleep like we need healthy food, water, exercise and clean air. In a world full of technology, caffeinated drinks and plenty to worry about, many people spend their nights tossing [...]
Forty or 50 years ago we didn’t talk about stress, but it must have been there – it just didn’t have a name. How could anyone go through seven years of the Second World War without being stressed? Today the word ‘stress’ is bandied around liberally with people saying they are stressed after trying to [...]
It is a fact that our brains lose function as we get into middle age and some people claim it happens much earlier! Some old people can remember intricate details of their childhood as if it were yesterday, but completely forget who came to see them the day before. Cognitive memory is the ability to [...]
Are antidepressants the solution? Most people know what it feels like to be depressed – and it is entirely normal to feel down following bereavement, divorce, redundancy or other life problems. It is when depression becomes a way of life that it becomes a problem, and often this is hard to recognise. Sometimes it is [...]
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