Thank you for bearing with us during a few technical hitches we experienced last week. One of our stories wound up on the front page of a popular social bookmarking site, and with tens of thousands of additional visitors arriving by the hour, our systems had a tough time keeping up.

Our Consulting Clinical Psychologist’s guide to Understanding Depression is now available in our section on symptoms — both in the original English and in a new professionally translated Spanish version.

Having been providing online counselling services continuously since 2003, I’ve decided it’s time for a break.

Another of Dr Carver’s popular articles has now been translated into Spanish.

A short while ago, we added a Spanish translation of Dr Carver’s well known article on identifying ‘losers’ in relationships, and we now have new translations available of two of Dr Carver’s other popular articles — on Stockholm Syndrome and on understanding personality disorders in relationships.

Dr Simon has asked me to thank you for all your comments on his recent posts about distortions of thinking. Due to a bereavement, Dr Simon won’t be able to respond right away, but he hopes to be able to catch up again after Christmas.

Many readers will know the work of our Consulting Clinical Psychologist Dr Carver work on dealing with personality disorders in relationships. His popular article on identifying ‘losers’ in relationships has now been professionally translated into Spanish.