How well you sleep and what kind of bed you sleep on can affect your sciatica or back pain in several important ways: As we’ve already seen, posture affects the spine – and that also applies to the posture you adopt when you’re in bed. It stands to reason that lying for hours on end [...]

In earlier chapters I have provided some guidelines as to how to diagnose your own depression and when it might make sense to involve a doctor in its treatment. In this chapter I go into greater detail about this. Essentially there are five reasons for involving a doctor in the treatment of depression. First, if [...]