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Do you get angry easily and tend to overreact to small things such as someone leaving the cap off the toothpaste, delays in the supermarket queue or minor traffic congestion?

Most of us at some time or other have experienced tension and stress. Anxiety and tension are natural reactions to anything that threatens to upset our happiness and well-being. Sometimes, however, we become tense and anxious when no real danger exists. When we find that emotional upsets occur more frequently and fail to wear off, then it is time to be watchful and to do something about it.

Coping with the death of somebody close to you is always difficult. Despite the pain and confusion most of us manage to cope reasonably well. Sometimes, however, the option of being able to talk with a skilled bereavement support worker can be very helpful.

Coping with the death of somebody close to you if often really difficult. The Family Centre, Chapel Street, Castlebar, has a confidential skilled bereavement support service available to anybody who may wish to avail of it.

And now it’s over. When they turn the key and step in, the house seems emptier. It was quiet before they left for Ireland, but now, if it was at all possible, it seems to have lost even more of its heartbeat. The clock ticks in the background — its tick hitting a false note of optimism, its tock emphasising the silence. They look at the door, and sob inside and wish that for just one more time, it would swing open and their bouncy happy daughter would come back in through it. Closure is sometimes seen as the end of a journey, but often it is just a mythical void. The pain in their chests that comes with every waking moment of the horrific realisation has not abated, as they thought it might. Now, alone together for the first time in weeks, they realise that often closure is the beginning of the journey and not an imagined end. Now, the hard work begins. The bit where the desire for justice has left them unfulfilled, the hole in their hearts just too large.

Galway Christian Fellowship has been developing new programmes to bring spiritual, relationship, and practical help to people in Galway.

Regular readers of my column will know that I am a passionate believer in positive thinking.

Loss and loneliness can be particularly difficult to cope with over the Christmas period. A six-week Bereavement Support Programme will be held in Iorras Le Chéile, Community Development Project, Main Street, Belmullet starting on Wednesday December 16 at 7pm.

Tomorrow, Saturday December 19, the CRC 102.9 fm current affairs programme Saturday Forum will feature a debate on a side of Christmas which most of us, fortunately, never experience. To many people Christmas is a time of plenty, a time of joy and happiness, but there are others for whom Christmas is a time of great worry and stress, a time when concerns about money and the basic necessities of life come to the fore.