While many are familiar with postpartum depression, the depression faced by people who've become new parents, prenatal depression, which occurs during a pregnancy, is far less spoken about. A new ...
There are so many ways we can try to help our mental health in midlife and perimenopause – and believe me, I’ve tried many of them. I bet you have, too. I’m on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and ...
Q: I keep hearing about the benefits of swimming in cold water. Is it actually good for you? A: There is intriguing preliminary evidence that swimming in cold water may have antidepressant effects.
Of the 785 women surveyed, 46.9% said swimming eased their anxiety; 34.5% said it helped their mood swings; 31.1% said it elevated their mood; and 30.3% said it reduced their hot flashes. The findings ...
It’s 8am and I’m standing at the edge of my local lake at Beckenham Place Park in London, the early morning sun just beginning to peek over the trees. A layer of mist is rising from the cold water and ...
Adam Boggon, MBChB, was working at the Royal Free Hospital in North London during the city's second wave of COVID-19. "I was effectively living in the hospital," he recalls. "It felt like I was going ...