You're right: exercise does help fight depression. I have found the more active I am the less depressed I am.

I don't have much advice about losing weight quickly, but make sure you avoid laxatives: the consequences would be highly embarrassing.

You're not alone. It is a scary time. I feel scared myself and I have no baby and toddler, so can only imagine what you're feeling and how scared you must feel.

Take it day-by-day and keep self isolating. Again, you're not alone.

I don't count calories: I eat properly cooked, homemade meals each night. I eat a bowl of healthy cereal for breakfast. I eat a very light lunch. Now I do adore chocolate, so that is that. Anyhow, I keep a food diary on my computer with my weight recorded day-by-day. This helps me modify and control...

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.