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When depression is worse than physical illness

Chronic physical illnesses can be accompanied by troubling depressive symptoms. Elly Aylwin-Foster urges doctors to treat every aspect of her condition with the same care.

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Surviving the storm of postnatal depression

Emma Jane Unsworth lays bare the despair of postnatal depression and shares her route to recovery.

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How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry

Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.

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Religion and mental health

At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.

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  • A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.
  • A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching R. Newton, 1795, after himself.
  • Japanese Vigor Tonic : the best and safest for restoring the system after depressing or wasting diseases, or at any time when it has become impaired through over-work, mental anxiety or excess / J.H. Hart.
  • Hercules, seated on a column, in a state of depression. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1781.
  • Basta una tableta de: Sistral, tabletas, alertante y psicoenergetico : Hace una sola cosa y la hace bien... los cerillos prducen flamas, el Hycodan alivia la tos / Laboratorios Endo de Mexico, S.A.
  • Basta una tableta de: Sistral, tabletas, alertante y psicoenergetico : Hace una sola cosa y la hace bien... los cerillos prducen flamas, el Hycodan alivia la tos / Laboratorios Endo de Mexico, S.A.
  • Quién tosió? Siempre que la terapia de la tos este indicada Hycomine Jarabe ... : estimula sin exaltar Sistral tabletas, alertante y psicoenergetico /cLaboratorios Endo de Mexico, S.A.
  • Quién tosió? Siempre que la terapia de la tos este indicada Hycomine Jarabe ... : estimula sin exaltar Sistral tabletas, alertante y psicoenergetico /cLaboratorios Endo de Mexico, S.A.
  • Hépatite C : gérer les effets indésirables des traitements. No.1, Les modifications de l'humeur et du psychisme / SOS Hépatites Fédération.
  • Hépatite C : gérer les effets indésirables des traitements. No.1, Les modifications de l'humeur et du psychisme / SOS Hépatites Fédération.
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