Failure is a part of life, as plenty of successful people have found out. Here we take a look at six highly renowned men who failed miserably before achieving great success. Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865: “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you...
Lots of people suffer from anxiety, but I wanted to write about the grip it has on some of us – like me. The scenario I just described? You’d probably think something really terrible happened to cause such discomfort, but in reality, it could be as simple as a trip to...
We know depression through metaphors. Emily Dickinson was able to convey it in language, Goya in an image. Half the purpose of art is to describe such iconic states. As for me, I had always thought myself tough, one of the people who could survive if I'd been sent to...
Forget what you think you know about OCD. Catherine Benfield describes what it’s really like to battle with this devastating mental disorder, and how she found a unique way of naming and taming it.