I have often been told people can’t let an attack or the anxiety happen because other people may see it happening. So what if they do. Why are we giving our mental health away to everyone else? We can spend all day trying to hide our symptoms from employers, work colleagues, family and friends. The [...]

All people—children and adults—move through distinctly different sleep states which progress from drowsiness to very deep sleep. In the waking state we are rational and functional. In non-REM sleep the body rests and restores itself. In REM sleep the mind is active again and dreaming occurs (REM stands for “rapid eye movement”—a stage of sleep [...]

Another means of preventing the fluid from building up again is to inject either a chemotherapy drug or a radioactive substance into the peritoneal cavity. This is likely to cause fever and pain over the next day or so. Although some cancer cells may be killed, this method acts mainly by sealing the peritoneal cavity, [...]