"^Where you lose a sense of control over your life there's very little incentive to stop smoking or to stop drinking or whatever. The answer is to rediscover a sense of purpose and self-esteem.^"
I think that can play such an important part of it all.
I don't know what living conditions are like in Glasgow but if it is over-crowded, that can also have a seriously negative impact on people:
www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/feb/25/city-stress-mental-health-rural-kind
Were you more emotionally attached to one parent over the other ?
What foods that you aren't allergic to don't seem to agree with your body?
A general election (democratic eh not like Hamas) is taking place in Israel on Tuesday next week.
