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...work in Britain, and around one in five GP consultations in the UK are about emotional disorders. Depression has also been linked to the loss of more than 100 million working days in England every year, and it is strongly associated with suicidal thoughts and with suicide, being implicated in around 2500 deaths a year (Thomas and Morris, 2003). McCrone et al. (2007)...

...work, determining how people react to situations, and, more than that, the kind of situations they get themselves into in the first place. This is why personality seems to become stronger as we get older; when we are young, our situation reflects external factors such as the social and family environment we were born into. As we grow older, we are more and more reaping...

...work that would be involved in a study like this. You would have to take a large group of people and measure each of these factors every day of the year. You would then need to assess the relative contributions of each factor in the equation to feeling a bit low. An equation might look good, but any psychologist doing research will tell you that unfortunately neither...

...work in a place with no phone or internet access. My letters to him were therefore vital. In an odd way, losing Alan has given me gifts. I am more empathetic and less driven than I was. I try to appreciate the simpler things in life each day. What also helped was that some people gave me gifts. They meant the world to me. One friend gave me a tiny book called The Gift of...