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It's never too late to change your life!

All are agreed. 2008 was a terrible year. Woolworth's has gone, stock markets have crashed, house prices have collapsed and we're all a little poorer.  To pile on the agony, it's making us feel old and...

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Let's face the music and dance

As Irving Berlin put it, there are times when we just have to face the music of our personal problems and learn to dance anyway. Certainly, after extraordinary turmoil in the economy last year, just...

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New Year resolutions: Yes we can!

As Big Ben made its first chimes in the icy chill that heralded the New Year, many were those who decided to make a new year's resolution for the first time in their lives. After all the economic...

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Post-Natal Awareness Kit

Rather like home pregnancy-detector kits, a new on-line PND awareness kit has been developed, based on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, first published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in...

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Time Travel

If Spock were here, he and Bones - the good doctor from the Starship Enterprise - would cure all our ills. How simple it would be if only we could go back in time to fix all those ‘if only' situations,...

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Time to Stop & Stare

What is this life if full of care We have no time to stand and stare? No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep, or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide...

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Bipolar disorder

At a recent seminar on bipolar disorder at St. Andrew's University, the personality Stephen Fry discussed his condition with psychiatric students and practitioners. He has also made a series of...

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Coded messages: What does making a 'to do list' say about you?

We live in a world where today's women are expected to juggle so many roles. I'm reminded of that circus act where someone tries to keep twelve plates spinning at one time, constantly needing to race...

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Obama: a dream for man

As Barack Obama is sworn in as 44th President of the United States, he has already changed the perceptions of the world. Not only is he the first black man to hold the office, not only has he altered...

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Alzheimer's: the cruelest disease

When actor Kevin Whately proudly posed with his mother Mary for his graduation ceremony back in 1996, he couldn't have known the highs and lows of what the future held.  Not only would he lose his...

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Asperger's Syndrome - recognising the signs

Alan, 36, is a software programmer who met and fell in love with his girlfriend Lisa via an internet matchmaking site. They emailed for a few months before meeting face to face on their first date. At...

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