Andrew Perry Page

06/11/2025

A BBC investigation finds that a host of areas in England are closing waiting lists and others are rationing care.

02/11/2025

Updated blog : My experience of depression. The phenomenology of mood.

I have been part of the stigma about depression. I haven't written about my experience of depression before but have worked in mental health for twenty five years. At times I have sat tight while patients, and colleagues, disclosed. This secrecy, and feeling of shame, contributed to the exposure and...

02/11/2025

Updated Blog : My experience of anxiety. I am part of the problem of forgetting experiences of anxiety. I remember them here.

I am part of the problem of forgetting experiences of anxiety. As if remembering anxiety made it more likely to be repeated. In fact, what cannot be remembered is more likely to be repeated (Freud, 2006.) So in this blog I will remember some of my struggles with anxiety. Creating, additional, helpfu...

01/11/2025

01/11/2025

Updated blog : My experience of myalgic encephalitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). I am part of this lack of understanding about mylygic encephalitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS.)

I am part of the lack of understanding about myalgic encephalitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS.)

30/10/2025

Updated blog : The psychology of money. How sharing our relationship with money might lead to a healthier life.

I am part of a wider problem of avoiding talking about our money. Secrets deny people the benefit of our experience.

29/10/2025

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Wiltshire police leading investigation into allegations about enlistment examinations between the 1970s and 2016

28/10/2025

Updated blog : My experience of anger. How we might see clearly when the red mist descends.

Outlines how our anger can become an emotion like any other. An asset that can be used constructively for our benefit. I too have struggled to control my feelings of anger. The length of time between me experiencing anger and deciding what to do has been short. Flashes of anger, rapid thoughts, foll...

28/10/2025

Updated blog : Persevere with s*x. Guidance for improving your s*xual experiences from a psychological perspective. *x

This short article describes some mistakes of intimacy and s*xuality and how they might be resolved from a psycho dynamic perspective. Achieving a better s*xuality.

27/10/2025

Updated blog : Master s*xual desire through therapy. Outlines a safe and effective practice for working through s*xual desire in therapy. *x

Erotic idealisations are inevitable in therapeutic practice. Erotic idealisations can be both helpful and unhelpful. Good enough psychological therapy involves these sorts of interactions. The professional boundaries of psychological therapy encourage these sort of interactions.

27/10/2025

Updated blog : How to take personal responsibility. Sense and decide the way you want to be. Then be that way.

How then to summarise what, I think, taking personal responsibility involves? We each need to decide how we want to be, then be it. I suggest we are self-creating beings. Responsible for what we make of our lives. An existentialist, Quaker inspired, philosophical stance (Guignon, 2021; Sweet, 2025 &...