Here's a gutsy, nutritional, low sunlight kind of blog post to suit our post-holiday season.  First the gutsy bit.  Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) - with its characteristic symptoms of abdominal pain, altered bowel habit, and possibly bloating - is very common, affecting about 15% of the population. ...

Sadness.  I woke feeling sad ... aching in my chest and then in my gut.  Not awful, just like a dull toothache, or a hurt, a wound.  Yesterday when I visited my mother in the Stroke Unit of Liberton Hospital, one of the more senior nurses came up to me as I was leaving asking to have a word with me.  She said that they were now waiting to transfer Mum away from the Unit to a geriatric...

PLEASE NOTE: This blog post dates back to December 2008.  All the questionnaires on this page, updated scoring details for the IES-R, the widely used Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory, descriptions of how to do "reliving" of the trauma, written accounts, and site visits, as well as a series of other updated PTSD-relevant questionnaires and handouts are available on the relevant...