It can be difficult for people with compulsive food disorders to make the right food choices. I am not diminishing your advice, but people with the condition you've mentioned suffer terrible food cravings and it can be difficult to pick up a vegetable casserole instead of a cheeseburger. I am not tr...

Great advice. A hope everyone with depression takes the advice you've given. I will myself. I definitely am prone to up and down moods: knowing when it is depression will give me reason to follow the advice.

Thank you.

Type 2 diabetes affects my father and my best friend. I am glad to know what exactly it means. Thankfully I have had a blood test - a few weeks just gone - and I hope there is no diabetes. I shall be seeing my doctor in a week or two. I certainly don't want to have diabetes. A useful question: and a...

I have suffered anxiety: and hated it. It wrecked my life. I could not do normal things and people turned away from me: to be blunt. When anxiety is paralysing people lack sympathy and expect you to "just get on with it". But that isn't easy. Anxiety lost me friends and being able to work ...

I do sometimes wonder if I've got this. My moods are like a rollercoaster: I can dip from high to lows at the drop of a hat. I have been diagnosed with something else, but I think I have bi-polar: not what the psychiatrist has said I have. My moods are awful and it isn't great going through motions ...

I would consider it. In fact, in a few years, I may well do so.

It seems radical, but I will one-day. Possibly when I am 50 years old. Note: I wouldn't shave my head because of cancer, but out of choice. I'd start with a crop, then see what I thought.

Over to you.

I'm sorry you're going through this: behaviour does change during times of stress and stress can make you lash out and just be aggressive generally speaking. I appreciate it is hard for you, but finding an outlet for your frustration - and grief, even - is the only way forward. I think talking to a ...

I do think everyone deals with stress in different ways: some go to bed early, so as not to wake up tired and cranky. Others talk to family and friends, while others see the doctor or a counsellor. Medication is an option, but there are many ways to deal with stress without resorting to medication. ...

I don't mean physically, but emotionally - rather than mentally. I shall make sure to include my dad in daily activities and just help him out with the house, shopping, etc. But how do I encourage him to go out and socialize more? It must be very lonely for him with no partner in his life. His compu...

You've suffered a terrible loss. These feelings will never leave: bereavement can last a lifetime. I have nearly lost a close friend - Michael - to dementia and I am always upset about it. I will never forget who he was. No one will ever forget those special memories of their loved ones and those im...