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CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

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The Unholy Union

For each of my books, I always start with a question that I don't know the answer to. For this latest book, Stonham Focus, I really wanted to understand why have depression and anxiety risen so much? And why have they been fat and rising all throughout my lifetime? It was weird to have had that experience of writing about the reasons why depression and anxiety have risen like loneliness, financial insecurity, a whole range of things. And then for COVID to arrive and see depression literally double for exactly those reasons, it was a very strange experience. There's what we can do as individuals, but there are also ways we can deal with this personally in two levels: one is

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