Julie Wallace, 51, wasn’t aware of the London Bridge terror attack until one of her girlfriends, Jodie, got in touch on a Sunday morning to ask if her 21-year-old daughter Sara Zelenak was safe.

“Do you think we’re crazy?” asks Libby, a 32 year-old marketing manager. I watch the blood pool on her forehead while she chats holidays, hangovers and upcoming birthday plans from her horizontal position on the Harley Street bed.

When Ruchira Sharma was 15 years old, she was diagnosed with an eating disorder.

The coronavirus lockdown is difficult for everyone to comprehend but for those with dementia it can be impossible.

Boris Johnson has been warned that a domestic abuse bill originally brought forward by Theresa May is now at risk of falling off the government agenda because of the proroguing (suspension) of parliament.

Dave* was a fresher in his first year of university. He had been getting on with a girl who was 19, like him, and lived just across the corridor in halls.

Sarah*, 27, and her boyfriend, Tom*, 26 have been together for a year. There’s no major issue in their relationship, but for the past four months they’ve been going to couples counselling.

Lauren Evans is a victim of ‘revenge porn’, a term she hates. “The definition of revenge is someone doing something to you because you’ve done something to them – it implies the victim must have done something to deserve this.”

Dr Naomi Sutton will never forget the day a patient ejaculated all over her hands in her Rotherham clinic. The sexual health consultant was examining the man on a bed, when he suddenly said: “Oh god I’m going to wee!”

When Alex Kelly, 23, and his girlfriend of nearly five years moved into their new flat they choose a place with two bedrooms. Not for the comfort of guests. For the comfort of each other.

Joshua Davidson doesn’t remember exactly the first time he stumbled across the anti-masturbation community. He thinks he was 17, maybe 18 – definitely during his time as a sixth-form student.

“If she doesn’t want to sleep with me after I’ve paid a lot for a first date, I’ll weigh up the likelihood of that being the case next time. If she’s simply ungrateful or disrespectful, I need to cut my losses and find another prospect.” These are the words of Ali, 29, who believes paying for a date entitles him to sex.

Danielle Graph, 41, from London, was doing her regular check of her daughter’s internet search history when she saw it; coronavirus.

Last week Anita Howell told her boss she would be taking three months of unpaid leave from her job as a supermarket checkout worker because of her fears over the coronavirus.

Holly Clarke hates the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It reminds the 22-year-old of missing the whole of secondary school, having her friends constantly tell her how “lucky” she was never to have to attend class and instead, spending all day in bed because of her ME.

The first Kevin Quigley, 54, learnt about his younger brother Paul Quigley, 49, having contracted coronavirus was when he received a message shared in the family Whatsapp group on 11 March. It was a photograph of Paul in a hospital bed wearing an oxygen mask.

The new domestic abuse bill, which was postponed at the end of 2019 when Boris Johnson prorogued parliament, is due to have its second reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday 28 April. 

It was 7am on a Sunday morning and pregnant Sian Lewis was standing on the pavement with a suitcase waving goodbye to her husband Geraint and two sons as they drove away, leaving her alone at the Wrexham Maelor hospital in north Wales.