Last night, as a Sessional Trainer for Aware Defeat Depression, I delivered a Depression Awareness Training session to Evergreen Pensioners’ Club.  Preparing for the evening over the last few days, I was stunned (and “depressed”) at the statistics for this age-group, which differ significantly to that of the normal groups we deliver to, teenagers:

10-15% of [...]

For reasons known only to ourselves, we interrupt Wednesday’s series, to bring you this instead…
Who was Robert Burton?  An English vicar of the seventeenth century, that’s who.  And one of the earliest scholars to deal with he subject of depression.

In an article entitled ‘People-person’ brain area found, “scientists say they have located the brain areas that may determine how sociable a person is.  Warm, sentimental people tend to have more brain tissue in the outer strip of the brain just above the eyes and in a structure deep in the brain’s centre.  These are [...]