Your mental health has a massive impact on every area of your life. From work to relationships to family to performing routine tasks, self-image to physical health – your mental state plays a big role. It is important to make a conscious effort to improve and maintain your mental health. Using expert advice from psychologists and life coaches, we explain how you can get on the road to achieving optimum mental health.
Whether you’ve been married before or you’re busy preparing for your first marriage, relationship expert Carole Smith explains why taking part in a pre-marital course can really help you and your partner to start your married life on the right path It’s exciting times; you’re engaged and preparing for the big day. The church and venue are booked, but there’s …
There has been a lot of news in recent times about female celebrities suffering from depression. We think they should ‘have it all’, yet even the richest and most successful women are revealing that they have been crippled by the ‘black dog’. Psychologist Niamh Hannan asks if this is a new thing and why it is happening? Statistically there has …
Psychologist Niamh Hannan answers your questions Q: I’m in my late twenties and lucky enough to have a good job and live in my own apartment. I have a great circle of close friends and I’m close to my family. I fear that I’m pushing my friends away because of my mood swings. I snap at friends and become angry …
Psychologist Niamh Hannan advises how to move on from painful memories 1 Before you can move on, you must first accept where you are. Recognise and acknowledge what has happened and the impact it has had on you; only when you have accepted this are you ready to move on. 2 Talk about it with someone you trust who is …
