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The Director of Public Health in Dumfries and Galloway is attempting to test the hypothesis that happier people live longer… By hiring local volunteers to tell people to cheer up:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has been called a common sense approach to therapy.

Instead of a therapist lying you down on a couch and asking you what your relationship with your father or mother was like, a CBT therapist aims to help you to avoid dwelling on negative thoughts and to find ways to overcome them.

Because Dr Cox cannot afford the thousands of CBT therapists he would need in his area, he has started training local volunteers to do the counselling for him.

And yes, I realise that this is just another of the ways in which I am doomed.

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