Office manager who lied about having baby to avoid prison after stealing is jailed for eight months

An officer manager who lied that she’d just had a baby to avoid prison after stealing £7,700 from work to fund her cocaine habit has been jailed for eight months.   Heather McCarthy, 33, used the fictitious birth to make a tearful plea for mercy last November, claiming she hadn’t told anyone about her child because … Read more

Teenagers with mental health disorders who smoke marijuana are THREE times more likely to self-harm

Teenagers with mental health disorders who smoke marijuana are THREE times more likely to self-harm, study warns US researchers studied more than 200,000 teens with mood disorders   Found ten per cent of these were diagnose with ‘cannabis use disorder’   This condition linked to 3.28 times higher risk of non-fatal self harm   By Joe Pinkstone For … Read more

Bachelor Nation’s Jade Roper Tolbert recalls ‘dark depression’ after welcoming second child

Bachelor Nation’s Jade Roper Tolbert recalls ‘dark depression’ after welcoming second child… as she ponders having fourth child By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 15:19 GMT, 19 January 2021 | Updated: 15:20 GMT, 19 January 2021 The Bachelor #19 alum Jade Roper Tolbert revealed on Monday that she secretly went through a ‘dark depression’ after … Read more

Anthea Turner’s sister Wendy reveals how she found a way out of her despair 

Anxiety and depression have been part of TV presenter Wendy Turner-Webster’s life for just about as long as she can remember. Money, work and relationship problems have triggered periods of intense anxiety since her late teens, but she’s learned to live with that. Her depression, however, which first hit during childhood, has only lately been … Read more

Ulrika Jonsson hits back at troll who tells her to ‘stop whinging’ over depression

Some people are c****’: Ulrika Jonsson hits back at troll who tells her to ‘stop whinging’ over depression as she says ‘mental health has no boundaries’ By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline Published: 09:23 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 09:26 GMT, 18 January 2021 Ulrika Jonsson called out a troll on Instagram on Sunday after … Read more

Model, 37, with rare skin condition vitiligo says strangers thought condition was contagious

A man with the rare skin condition vitiligo has said strangers have avoided sitting next to him on the bus as they fear they might ‘catch’ his skin condition.   Model Roger Monte, 37, from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, developed vitiligo when he was 23 and was so depressed by the way his skin had been … Read more

Model, 37, with rare skin condition vitiligo says strangers thought condition was contagious

A man with the rare skin condition vitiligo has said strangers have avoided sitting next to him on the bus as they fear they might ‘catch’ his skin condition.   Model Roger Monte, 37, from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, developed vitiligo when he was 23 and was so depressed by the way his skin had been … Read more

Awkwafina says fame ‘is not a cure for depression’

Awkwafina says fame ‘is not a cure for depression’ as she still suffers from ‘impostor syndrome’ and has anxiety attacks over her alter ego By Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com Published: 16:56 GMT, 15 January 2021 | Updated: 17:06 GMT, 15 January 2021 Awkwafina insists fame ‘is not a cure for depression.’ The 32-year-old Crazy Rich … Read more

Daughter of pensioner whose beloved dog was snatched says he’s in ‘dark place’ experiencing PTSD

The daughter of a retired man whose beloved dog was stolen in a violent mugging says her father is in a ‘dark place’ and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  Mike Jasper, 66, was walking his dog Ted, a Sprocker Spaniel, in South London in December after visiting his allotment when he was brutally attacked … Read more

Fearne Cotton admits to having ‘a hangover of depression’ every day

Fearne Cotton has spoken about her depression in a frank interview with Angela Scanlon’s podcast, Thanks A Million. The TV and radio presenter, 39, admitted that depression is part of her everyday life and that it knocked her ‘work confidence’ partly leading her to leave her roles on Celebrity Juice and at BBC Radio. ‘[Depression] … Read more