Do you feel flat and depleted at the moment? Do you wonder why you struggle to get out of bed in the morning? Do you wonder why it’s so hard to commit to exercise or take up a new hobby, to even go for a walk? Do you wonder why you can’t get excited about things, why you are finding this lockdown so hard to manage. Why you are craving sugary foods and eating more even though you know you have put on weight? Why are you struggling to function...

Many people ask me why I called my clinic, the Gulliver Clinic. Jonathan Swift was a great supporter of mental health and was behind the development of St. Patrick’s Hospital Psychiatric in Dublin. He wrote the novel Gulliver’s Travels where the giant Gulliver is immobilised by many tiny people, the Lilliputians. To me this symbolises what stress is about and how us ‘giants’ can be felled by many, often small but stressful things, that act like...