38 h. ago Countryfile legend left in tears after struggling to perform basic task

Julia Bradbury has gone from receiving a shock cancer diagnosis to being the fittest and healthiest she's ever been – but in her new book she reflects on the dark times after her surgery

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54 h. ago My client attended therapy because he was mandated to. Making progress to stop his use of child exploitation material was vital | Ahona Guha

We started by agreeing that we both wanted the same thing – for him to not reoffendThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workSometimes people attend therapy because they are mandated to attend, not because they want to. Bill* was one of these clients. He sat before me, avoiding eye contact, arms crossed.“I didn’t hurt anyone, not like those other blokes did,” he said. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert on leaving her marriage for a dying friend: ‘She said, Let’s just live balls to the wall until I die!’

One was a happily married and internationally famous writer, the other a cool, funny hairdresser and ex-drug addict. Then a shock diagnosis pitched them into an intense love affair ...Sometime in the summer of 2017 I wrote in my journal, “Jesus fucking Christ, please save me.” I was trapped in hell, and I could see no way out. Our beautiful, sunny, two-bedroom penthouse apartment in the East Village – which I had rented for Rayya to make her happy in the last months of her life – had become a dungeon of misery, danger, degradation, drugs. Rayya kept the shades drawn at all hours of the day, not only because the light hurt her eyes but also because she had become intensely paranoid that she was being watched by the police, and that they were coming for her.And, to be honest, the police might very well have come for her (for both of us, actually), because our apartment now contained thousands and thousands of dollars’ worth of cocaine – some of which Rayya was cooking down and shootin...

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4 d. ago Scots farmer thought back pains were from work before shock brain tumour diagnosis

Richard Gospel, 44, started experiencing pins and needles in his back of head and shooting pains in 2023.

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4 d. ago Clare Balding was diagnosed with terrifying disease after 'watching herself on TV'

Clare Balding received the shock health diagnosis when she watched herself back on TV and noticed a particular change to one body part as she asked "where has that come from"

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9 d. ago Youngster who complained 'eye hurt' given shock diagnosis by doctors

Medics referred four-year-old Jessy to an eye clinic, but mum Lisa Morton knew it was too far away so took her to an opticians.

Society

9 d. ago 'Daughter, 4, had sore eye then doctors said 'we're so sorry to tell you this''

Jessy Morton, 4, had her right eye removed after complaining that it hurt just a month before. Doctors confirmed she had a rare form of cancer, which led to an urgent surgery

Politics

2 w. ago Michael Barrymore, 73, reveals shock health diagnosis that led to mini strokes as he reaches out to fans for support in heartbreaking post

The comedian, 73, was previously one of the UK's top stars but his decades long career ended after the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2001 following a party at his Essex home.

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2 w. ago Scots mum regrets 'silly' choice not to wear sunhat after shock cancer diagnosis

"Not wearing a hat was probably a bit of a vanity. I thought 'I'm not wearing a hat, I've got nice long hair'. I wanted to show it off and not wear a hat."

Science

3 w. ago 'I thought I just had toothache, then a shock diagnosis changed my life forever'

Keshia Liburd thought her pain would be solved with a quick trip to the dentist - however she soon got the devastating news that she had a rare form of aggressive cancer

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3 w. ago 'I’ve got cancer and PIP cuts worry me – but benefits app saved me £700'

EXCLUSIVE: Sue, 61, found herself in emotional and financial distress after receiving a shock cancer diagnosis. She tells her experience of PIP and how a discount platform for disabled people is saving her hundreds

Economics

4 w. ago 'I thought I was going to die': Victoria Derbyshire reflects on fear following shock cancer diagnosis

The BBC presenter opens up about the moment she thought she wouldn’t survive, a decade after being diagnosed with breast cancer

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4 w. ago Victoria Derbyshire 'thought she was going to die' after shock cancer diagnosis

Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire revealed she thought she was going to die following her breast cancer diagnosis as she marks 10 years since she was declared cancer free

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