“The saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it is like to feel absolutely worthless, and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.” Robin Williams. Thankfully, in the five years since the comedian Robin Williams took his own life, there has been more attention paid to mental […]

The answer is epilepsy. Other famous people with the condition include Alexander the Great, Handel, Byron and Gershwin. But that wasn’t much comfort to Peter. Until our community counsellors heard about him, he spent most of his days tied up with rope and locked in his parents’ house in rural Uganda. Peter’s mother has 11 […]

When Winston Churchill stood waiting for a train, he tried to make sure there was a pillar between him and the platform edge. He also hated being at the rail of a ship or on a balcony. Yet, he wasn’t afraid of heights: he suffered from bouts of crippling depression, and was terrified of the […]