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How do you cope with stress?

Mental Health

 How do you cope with stress?According to clinical and family psychologist Dr Sandra E. Neil, there are four major coping mechanisms that we adopt to protect us from stress – placating, blaming, being super-reasonable and being irrelevant.

Dealing with male depression

Depression

 Dealing with male depressionDepression affects one in four people at some time in their lives and with today's current climate of job insecurity, financial worries and unemployment more men are experiencing the illness.

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