He sits across from me and I can feel a knot build in my stomach as he struggles to explain what has changed.  “Look, I don’t smoke. My blood pressure’s fine. I exercise when I can. But I don’t feel right Doc. Everything is just a bit harder than it used to be.” There’s no single diagnosis to reach for. No medications to be tweaked. No abnormal blood result that needs action. So the consultation ends, with the conclusion that there is no illness at play; a conclusion that sho

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74% of UK adults have felt so stressed at some point over the previous year they felt overwhelmed or unable to cope, according to a survey by the Mental Health Foundation. This number shoots up to 83% when just looking at 18–24 year olds, who were almost 5x as likely to self harm due to stress than adults aged 55 or over. In preparation for this blog, I began to reflect that stress is a word we are all familiar with. We’ve come a long way in being able to openly talk about st

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