You are the best readers in the world!

THE emails you send have been so uplifting — thanks to everybody who has been in touch.

It’s my pleasure to share the good news that this newspaper has some of the kindest, most thoughtful readers in the world! Because I feel (strange as it may seem) that we’re all friends. Let me introduce you to just one.

Helen is 71 and Irish-Liverpool (a terrific mix, but I’m biased!), and currently braving it at home, ‘done up to the nines — a gorgeous jumper I didn’t know I had, my jeans (which fit for now)... foundation in place, luminous hair slide — and quite garish lipstick.’ I love that!

She’s now making Easter cards (for absent granddaughters) ‘from the cardboard (sterilised, of course!) of cornflake packets, decorated with the detritus of stickers lingering from the childhood of my sons (who are now 47 and 48)’.

I’m thrilled that Helen finds this column useful. ‘Over the years I got a lot of answers from you to questions I had never asked. Your spirituality and the gentle sharing of your own grief and life’s journey made my travelling that sometimes torturous road an easier task.

‘There have been times when I couldn’t see the wood for the trees, nor any value in my life, saw no achievement and wondered why I was here.

‘You had suggestions for me . . . I’ve lived, loved, lost and won, failed and succeeded, tried to hold on to clouds, was beset by loss and sorrow but you have covered them all.’

Thank you, Helen, for making my day.

PS: An important note about help: the therapist platform welldoing.org has announced that more than 100 of its UK verified therapist members are offering free online therapy to NHS workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

NHS staff members should go to welldoing.org/counselling/ nhs and on proving eligibility apply for online therapy treatment. The number of free sessions and timing is decided between therapist and client.

Bel answers readers’ questions on emotional and relationship problems each week. Write to Bel Mooney, Scottish Daily Mail, 20 Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 6DB, or email bel.mooney@dailymail.co.uk. Names are changed to protect identities. Bel reads all letters but regrets she cannot enter into personal correspondence.