Q. I’m 29 and I have found myself getting very down lately. There hasn’t been any major upheaval in my life that I can pinpoint, but over the last past year I have just felt gradually more and more lethargic and unmotivated. I hate the word depressed, but it’s almost what I’m feeling. Have you any insights?

Q. Here I am again approaching New Year resolutions and already feeling depressed. Every year I say I’m losing weight or giving up smoking or changing jobs and nothing has changed a year on, AGAIN. What can I do differently this time? Charlotte, 31, Kent…

I had asthma as a child, yet 20 years later, I’m starting to increasingly rely on my inhaler again. Why do you think it has come back now? Selina, 35, Windsor.

I am finding myself becoming increasing like my mother who I love, but do not necessarily like. I can’t believe that many of the things I disliked in her (short temper, being judgemental, selfishness, depression, being a martyr) etc are all starting to become part of me. How do I find myself again? Majella, 30, Sussex.

I am not really the jealous type, but lately I have been thinking about whether or not my boyfriend is cheating on me. Since I started worrying about it, I keep reading in the newspapers about famous guys having affairs and it’s making things worse.