Twelve men will kill themselves today, as twelve do every day, in England and Wales. It is a terrible sentence to write. And words cannot describe the confusion, anger, grief… read more »

Concentration was always celebrated at school…and encouraged. ‘Concentrate, Parke!’ And concentration, or focus, is good for getting things done. As Alexandra Horowitz writes: ‘It eases our cognitive overload by allowing… read more »

Some people drive a car with no idea how it works. This is OK while the car is performing, but when it breaks down, there’s a problem, which may leave… read more »

Amber Rudd recently resigned as Home Secretary. She feels she ‘inadvertently misled’ Parliament over immigrant deportation targets. There had been huge pressure on her in the preceding week. Many feel… read more »

Supporting a football team can damage your health. This is the finding of a recent study, which has discovered that people suffer from losing a game for a lot longer… read more »

When we speak of grief, it’s often linked with the death of someone we love. And this is a very particular and difficult grief. But there are many other forms… read more »

I have a terrible headache and suddenly start worrying that I have a brain tumour. My daughter is a few minutes late from school and I begin to fear that… read more »

My suffering, which clouds my mood, is my unsatisfactory experience of clinging to things that will one day cease to exist… whether a desire, a feeling or a person. I… read more »

In 1943, Thomas Watson, then Chair of IBM, is reputed to have said: ‘I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.’ It proved an inaccurate prediction; but… read more »

Do you ever get trapped inside your head? It’s a source of much unnecessary suffering. Our mental world is always going to be an anxious, negative space; and it can… read more »