I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy and healthy 2019.
I am also very excited to share with you that my most recent book ‘Hope with OCD – a self-help guide to obsessive-compulsive disorder for parents, carers and friends of sufferers’ published by the wonderful Hammersmith Health Books, has been long listed in the People Book Prize non-fiction category. I would love your support to help it get through to the short list and you never know…it could even win!
As part of our everyday lives we are constantly bombarded with adverts, videos and discussions about how to maintain and achieve good physical health – weather it be six-pack abs, eating gluten-free, or whether we are all getting enough sleep. The thing is – we all...
read moreDespite increasing awareness about eating disorders among the general population and health care professionals, there are still so many misconceptions that surround these serious illnesses, which have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. These myths are...
read moreCreate a safe and supportive environment, trying to understand that the sufferer does not want to have the mental illness just as much as you do not want them to have it. Be non-judgemental and listen without prejudice, no matter how difficult the situation. Find...
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