Mindfulness for Better Mental Health

Mindfulness has become a hot topic recently, with even British members of parliament and corporate managers taking part in mindfulness training courses. Nina Bradshaw explains mindfulness and how simple it can be. We hear about mindfulness and it sounds like…

Recollections of a Suicide

My brother, Martin, was the youngest of four brothers. He was the youngest son to John and Dorothy Veal and Christopher, David and Timothy were his brothers. He was born on 15th December 1967 and at the time of his…

a bully in the workplace

Bullying does not only apply to acting out children, it unfortunately applies to adults as well. Being a bully is not something one usually outgrows. Bullying is a way of coping and can become a part of an adult’s everyday…

a minimal lifestyle to reduce stress

It was a serendipitous moment when I was asked to write an article on living with a minimalist approach. I was spending my Christmas holiday on a mountain in Southern Australia, in a town that consisted of five streets and…

Thriving through Alzheimer’s

Most people understand Alzheimer’s disease as a problem of “forgetting” – a memory problem. But it is much more than that; it is a thinking disorder, one that disrupts the usual patterns of thought conception, storage, retrieval and utility. As…

a clinical view of depression

Depression is the ‘common cold’ of mental illness. It is the term used in psychiatry to describe “when the lowering of mood becomes relatively persistent and begins to interfere with a person’s ability to cope, either with work or study or…

Take Back the Power

When I first began my recovery journey from Mental Illness, my partner told me: ‘I don’t care what illness you have; I will always stay by your side as long as you get some help’. So I did. When I…

We all say the wrong things

We live in a society of political correctness (PC). So much so that the phrase “political correctness gone mad” is a very common reaction. Gender, race, religion, sexual preference and now, it seems, mental health are subjects where we are…

my mental health and physical disability

Delali Norvor shares with us an intimate account of her own life with mental health and the tragic legacy mental health can leave behind. My name is Delali, and I suffered from depression. Her name was Ayo, and she, too,…