As the cold and flu season bursts onto the scene we discuss how it can make you depressed and how to protect yourself. Is Aspirin really an antidepressant? We discuss that the key to recovery in therapy is motivation to do so. This may include whether you like your therapist. The type of therapy is much less important. We also explain the origin of modern therapy which coincided with the rapid acceleration in post war America of materialism and the destruction of close family and community values. Finally we look at the statistical distribution of anxiety and emotion between the sexes and tentatively suggest a link between the finding that female heads of state are one third more likely to wage war than males especially if they are married. If they are single they are more likely to be attacked than be the aggressor. Food for thought though in a world where world annihilation is a button press away.