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To Valentine or not to Valentine...

15/2/2015

Valentine

The 14th of February is dedicated to Saint Valentine who, according to the story, utterly believed in love and marriage and helped people find their true love in many ways. As was told, he wrote a love letter to the love of his life just before dying. His dedication to love has inspired people ever since. For the romantic people amongst us, Valentine’s Day might be the perfect occasion for a romantic dinner, a thoughtful card, a bunch of flowers, a box of chocolates, or any other romantic gesture to express your appreciation of the love you feel for another person. But for some people this day might prompt less positive feelings because of problems in their intimate relationship, such as sexual problems, lack of intimacy or due to the lack of having a relationship.

Without trying to solve all possible problems in one blog I would like to emphasise on the matter of wanting to be intimate but for whatever reason you can’t. This might be due to not having a partner,

Depression: why me?

10/2/2015

In my psychology practice people often ask me the question: “Why am I suffering from depression?” It’s a good and fair question, so I decided to share the answer in this blog.

Let me start by providing a brief description of what I, as a Clinical Psychologist, would describe as depression. In psychology the official term for depression is a Major Depressive Disorder, part of the cluster of Mood disorders. Without dissolving in very clinical language there are a few criteria a person