People who lose their jobs in the recession are to be offered specialist counselling for depression and anxiety, it was revealed. Sufferers will be referred to psychotherapists using an advice network in Jobcentres, doctors' surgeries and NHS Direct.

People suffering from anxiety and depression prefer to receive counselling over medication because they feel it addresses their underlying problems and not just their symptoms

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-but not exposure to traumatic events without the development of PTSD-may be associated with subsequent attempted suicide in young adults, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals

Tax time not only affects your wallet, but it can affect your mental health. Trying to collect all of the information needed and then filling out the tax returns can cause stress. In addition, many people wait until the last second to try to file and this can cause even more anxiety

Factsheet: Coping with Separation and Divorce: Mental Health America. Going through a separation or divorce can be very difficult, ...

.Psychosexual Therapy is a specialist area of Pyschotherapy/Counselling. Often, sexual problems which have very obvious physical symptoms, such as pain (e.g. vaginismus)or difficulty in maintaining erections, can be treated by looking at what is happening in the sufferer's thoughts or feelings.