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This article covers only part of what ‘personal boundaries’ means, why they matter and how to work out where yours lie. The subject is in fact enormous — you cannot describe all of it, and everyone's reasons are their own.

Grief is an inseparable part of human experience. In the course of our lives we face losses and live through emotional pain that is inseparable from grieving. Understanding the stages of grief and the psychology behind them can help us make sense of this process and work our way through it.

The concept of “neurosis” was introduced into medicine in 1776 by the Scottish physician William Cullen. The content of the term has been revised more than once, and to this day it has no single generally accepted definition. It should also be borne in mind that in medicine and biology “neurosis” may be the name for various functional disturbances of higher nervous activity.

Almost everyone has short-lived sleep problems lasting a few days during stressful phases of life or during an illness (a cough, say, or a “blocked nose” from a cold). Most of them are harmless. With “real” sleep disorders it is different. These are sleep problems that go on for a longer stretch of time (three to four weeks, and sometimes years) and markedly reduce a person's ability to function. They can be physical as well as psychological. So the first thing to do is to fin