The 10 best series of 2023
Chapter partner? Like any other, this year presented a lot of serial content. There were both pleasant surprises and novelties that did not meet expectations (for example,…
What do you mean you don’t have a therapist? How counselling went mainstream
Haydn Williams, executive chairman of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, has an expert’s view of the stages that have brought us here. “Cultural change doesn’t…
The Midults’ guide to… life after the pandemic
Then, a couple of years ago, we were asked to become the agony aunts for the Saturday Telegraph Magazine. (Were we qualified? No. But between us we…
Anxiety robbed me of my sleep – and by 32, my life was a car crash
The door swings open and a cold beam of artificial light fills my room. Someone with a clipboard says good morning, but it’s impersonal: full of tiredness…
Do Mick Jagger’s SAD therapy glasses actually work?
Light therapy is still considered the gold standard for SAD sufferers, although it doesn’t work for everyone. Patients in the UK are prescribed a SAD lamp, or…
The inconvenient truth about antidepressants
After the loss of her 16-year-old daughter Jenny to suicide, 60-year-old Jenetta Bary went onto antidepressants for a couple of months. “It left me feeling deadened and…
Florence St George: ‘It looked like I was living the dream, but I was in a dark place’
Two years ago, I decided to apply for The Great Pottery Throw Down. I wondered whether I was mad for applying at the time – I had…