Turning the page on the most challenging time of the year

This is the period of the year, cold, wet, still dark, besieging and unforgiving — and that’s before the Christmas credit card bill arrives — that, according to suicide prevention group Pieta House is the most challenging time of the year for those struggling with mental health issues.

This is the period of the year, cold, wet, still dark, besieging and unforgiving — and that’s before the Christmas credit card bill arrives — that, according to suicide prevention group Pieta House is the most challenging time of the year for those struggling with mental health issues.

But even at this low point in the year’s turning, even as US president Donald Trump splutters another ignorant, racist Twitter tirade, there are always reasons to be cheerful and even hopeful.