Strictly uplifting: Dancing as a therapy to beat the blues

After serious health issues brought on a depression, Aileen O’Reilly found it was music that helped her to find her spirit again

BACK in the 1990s I was an avid clubber — from Thursday night to very early Monday morning; a happy, sweaty, beaming mess of joy on the dancefloor. The rest of the week I trekked to work and around town with my earphones in, buzzing with dangerously high-volume dance music pumping through my veins like Castrol GTX.