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On Resolutions

Any occasion to improve ourselves should be seized upon. We need resolutions: they are promises we make to our better selves. In the future, we should try to worry less, forgive more, look at things through other people’s eyes and, most of all, learn to appreciate what we have.

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Living Long Term With Mental Illness

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Living Long Term With Mental Illness

We would - of course - want to get rid of this thing forever and heaven knows we will have…

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The Impulse to Sink Our Own Mood – and Return to Sadness and Worry

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The Impulse to Sink Our Own Mood – and Return to Sadness and Worry

For some of us, happiness and excitement never seem to last for very long. Every time we finally take pride…

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How ‘Mad’ People Make a Lot of Sense

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How ‘Mad’ People Make a Lot of Sense

We like to draw a firm line between the people we casually call ‘mad’ and the rest of us. The…

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Why We Keep Repeating Patterns of Unhappiness

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Why We Keep Repeating Patterns of Unhappiness

Many of us dimly sense that, despite ourselves, unfortunately and mysteriously, we keep ending up in some very similar dark…

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Your Self-Esteem is a Record of Your History

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Your Self-Esteem is a Record of Your History

It’s a feature of the way we’re built that we don’t generally go around asking why we feel as we…

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Intergenerational Trauma

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Intergenerational Trauma

The term ‘intergenerational trauma’ refers to the way in which psychological difficulties experienced by people in one generation may –…

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