I’ve still not quite been able to come up with an adequate phrase to describe having social anxiety. Sometimes the old clichés are the best...

What better way to spend a Sunday than an eight-hour long improvised comedy workshop? Now, I know that there are a lot of people who wou...

"It's why, it's why we hang lights so high and gaze at the glow of silver birches in the snow Because of the dark, we see ...

"So this one's for the friends If not so for themselves And this new life's directing us Remind us in a town You made...

So last Friday I began a course of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy sessions, to help me deal with the social anxiety that I talked about in a ...

I have Social Anxiety Disorder . Its all official and everything, having just come back from the doctors' surgery, where all of my rehea...

Imagine you're twelve years old. You're on the cusp of adolescence, a time where you start to move away from the comfort and prote...

You know of Rescue Remedy, right? You probably had an aunt who would constantly swig a drop for her nerves, or might have even taken some be...

I'm slightly obsessive over checking my blog stats, and I've noticed a trickle of people finding my site by using such terms as the ...

This morning BBC News are running with this rather terrifying looking story about the dangers of antidepressants in pregnancy. This is an ...

In February 2013, my friend Nancy and I delivered a Newcastle Skeptics in the Pub talk entitled Homeopathy: Where's The Harm? As a foll...

Stigmas. They're stubborn things aren't they? I've seen a few folk tweeting this article: Hooked on Happy Pills? in The Indepe...