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24Feb

James Brown: 'Therapy Saved My Life'

James Brown

addiction, counselling, experienceoftherapy, men, therapy

Mind

Former hell-raising editor of lads mag Loaded, James Brown says therapy has helped him go from chaos to emotional calm
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19Feb

A Letter to My Therapist, from a Client Struggling in Therapy

Rae Freeman

counselling, depression, experienceoftherapy, self, therapy

Mind

A depressed young woman wants to tell her therapist how grateful she is for their weekly sessions together
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18Jan

How Therapy Helped Me Deal with Treatment-Resistant Depression

Polly Allen

counselling, depression, experienceoftherapy, self, therapy, woman

Mind

After seven years of trying to alleviate her clinical depression, journalist Polly Allen finally found the right therapist to help her
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27Nov

How Do I Feel? Therapy's Big Question

Rae Freeman

counselling, depression, experienceoftherapy, self, therapy, women

Mind

Rae Freeman shares her experience of therapy, which helped her learn how to identify and express her feelings
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07Oct

​Therapy Helped Me to See the Ways in Which I Really See Myself

Clara Bridges

anger, depression, experienceoftherapy, mother, self, therapy

Mind

Clara reveals how therapy has become her ultimate 'safe place', where she can come to terms with long-term issues and learn about herself
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24Jul

How I Deal with Anxiety

Welldoing

anxiety, books, cbt, experienceoftherapy, self, therapy

Mind

Isabel, 15, shares how anxiety has affected her life and how CBT, books and friends have helped her manage.
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12May

My Therapist was My Secret Weapon

Emma Dally

counselling, depression, experienceoftherapy, family, self, therapy

Mind

Emma Dally reflects on her long-term relationship with her therapist; a relationship that helped her heal childhood wounds and family rifts and live a more fulfilled life.
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16Jan

How a Gay Man Found His Thrills

Anonymous Therapist

experienceoftherapy, LGBT, therapy

Therapists

Thrill-seeking was not the reason why this man sought therapy, but it came to be an answer to his problems
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10Jan

How Our Anxieties Can Play Out in the Home

Anonymous Therapist

anxiety, experienceoftherapy, home, therapy

Therapists

How a woman used housework to try to contain her feelings of anxiety
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06Jan

When Depression Strikes in Your 20s

Anonymous

counselling, depression, experienceoftherapy, student, therapy, university

Mind

We're often told our twenties are meant to be the best years of our lives. What does it feel like to struggle with depression at this supposedly golden age?
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