I suspect that most of my readers are aware of the Litany Against Fear which has well and truly made it into popular culture.

Fear is an issue for me, due to my upbringing. Not anxiety as such, I have dealt with that, but ultimately irrational fears leading to destructive procrastination and indecision ( Read more... )

The following are some excerpts from an essay I have drafted which is intended for publication. Folk may find them helpful.
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Depression-which has been written about for centuries under the older term of melancholia-is a pattern of thought, belief, feeling. It is-in the powerful metaphor of Australian-born psychologist Dorothy Rowe, whose ( Read more... )

I started getting panic attacks in my early twenties. The family GP wanted to put me on Valium™. I decided that night I wasn’t going to do that and looked at various alternative therapies, including a prolonged period of worrying about food sensitivities (which makes one neurotic about food). It was some years later when my Canberra GP, who had ( Read more... )