When I was growing up, I used to make fun of my mother for being scared of seemingly everything. I felt invincible as a kid, and I couldn’t understand why playing in the park alone, swimming without ...

I stopped believing in God, became an alcoholic, returned to God, signed up for a gym membership, and even wrote poetry. I've coped with the death of my best friend in all sorts of ways. Yet she ...

My friend Antonia was 18 years old when she died overnight from bacterial meningitis, during her first term at Oxford University, in October 2009. Seventeen years on, there is still not enough being ...

The loved ones of a woman who had battled an eating disorder for more than a decade said she was repeatedly denied access to treatment before she died aged 26. Charlotte Murphy, a veterinary nurse ...