Mental Health
Understanding The Differences Between OCD and Phobias
March 16th, 2010
Sometimes it can be difficult to distinguish between OCD and a phobia. There is a sense in which most Anxiety sufferers have an obsession – if you spend all your time worrying about having a panic attack, or finding a spider, or meeting someone in the street, then you are obsessed to a certain extent. [...]
Young grief
May 30th, 2009
By Jane Elliott
Health reporter, BBC News
When Sophie Rudoff’s father died she was alternatively calm and angry.
What she did not do was lock herself in her room and rage or rebel.
But she worried that this measured reaction was wrong.
She thought she knew from films and books how she should react.
Not a stereotype
“When something like this happens [...]