Opinionated Vicar

Making even the smallest decisions can be agonising. It can affect not just the mind but also the body – I start to stumble when I walk, or ...

...I am going to talk about what I know – depression and anxiety. I find it hard to fully describe what happens in my brain because honestl...

Sad to hear that Jonathan Trott is having another break from cricket , after a recurrence of his stress illness: Stress and anxiety do not...

Every night I would check my alarm clock 10, 15 times to make sure that I'd set it to 'on'. Every morning I'd wake with a fe...

Somewhere there is bound to be a study on the optimum number of e-newsletters it's possible to receive, before the information overload ...

Great post from Katharine Welby on depression, God and the church Reading the psalms (that oh so regularly quoted ‘you can yell at God,...

One good thing to come out of the recent synod was a new online mental health resource called Mental Health Matters . Echurch blog has a he...

To coincide with World Mental Health Day, the World Health Organization have produced an animated video about depression. The short video b...

A superb post at Quarentia , on how one church tackled the subject of depression, some good ideas, resources and creative tips. No congreg...

Whilst David Cameron had his day before the judge last week, his fellow MPs were doing something quite amazing. During a debate on mental he...

I felt ashamed of the illness as I’d had such an amazing childhood – what did I have to be depressed about?! I also felt frightened, frighte...

Total Politics have started a week of blogging on Mental Health and Politics , which I'll be following avidly. This week, the Total Po...

Doing the rounds on Facebook - "Hard to explain to someone who has no clue. Or doesn't believe you. It's a daily struggle being...

This is all over Facebook at the moment People who think Depression is a choice, take a second to think. How would it feel to think that t...

I know, I keep going on about this, but the sooner we reach the day when we can as freely admit to depression and mental illness as we can t...

If you've never had depression, then this vivid account by footballer Stan Collymore may help you understand a bit more about what it...

Mental Health is one of a whole herd of elephants in the room at this General Election. (Others include the epidemic of absent fathers, the ...

Today is apparently Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year (particularly if you're an England cricket or Sunderland fan): the ...

BBC report today on bullied clergy: Workplace bullying of the clergy has become "rife", according to the union Unite which says pr...

Great to hear that the Government wants to put more resources into tackling mental illness . That announcement at least makes more sense tha...