It's the second morning.  I wrote yesterday about our arrival at this group.  Didn't get to bed till later last night and slept in for longer.  The conversations are beginning to "ignite".  As we spend more time here, get into it, hear how deeply & openly others are prepared to be...

It's the first morning of this four day, peer-run Men's group.  We've been meeting like this every autumn since 1993 - a collection of friends & friends of friends & friends of friends of friends!  I've written extensively about these peer groups on this blog.  For example, five posts on last year's group...

Here are seven recent articles that caught my interest (abstracts & links are given further down the page).  The first two revisit the "How common is troublesome psychological distress?" question.  The title of Moffitt et al's paper is self-explanatory - "How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence rates are doubled by prospective...