Mental health

Does ‘depression and anxiety’ reside within both your body and your mind?

November 23, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Does depression and anxiety reside within both your body and your mind? “I am a great believer in the mind – body connection and have for quite some time implemented this way of treating patients as a whole person and not just treating the symptoms that they present with. Emotions that are [...]

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Parenting Tips and how to help children through separation and divorce.

November 2, 2010

Image by jcoterhals via Flickr Parenting Tips and how to help children through separation and divorce. Do parents who divorce, think of their children? Who supports single parents and their struggles with mental heallth? It can be particularly difficult for parents with mental health problems and their children to get accessible, acceptable and effective support [...]

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The Mental Health Act can help rehabilitate serious offenders.

September 28, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Gwen Adshead is a consultant forensic psychotherapist at the best known of the 3 high security psychiatric hospitals in England – ‘Broadmoor’- the other two being ‘Ashworth‘ and ‘Rampton‘. The Broadmoor hospital, houses about 260 patients all of whom are men since the female service closed in September 2007, with most of [...]

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Are You Crazy?

April 9, 2010

Are You Crazy? Image by pierre pouliquin via Flickr Find out if you are crazy by doing the online insanity test. (For entertainment purposes only)

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Does Facebook Encourage Self Harm?

March 5, 2010

Does Facebook Encourage Self Harm? Image via CrunchBase Apparently on our social networks, youths are getting tips and advice on how to self harm. They are also proudly up loading photographs and images of their scars for all to see and comment.

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“Count me In” Census – Mental Health Community for Black and Ethnic Minorities.

February 24, 2010

“Count me In” Census – Mental Health Community for Black and Ethnic Minorities; Image by leoncillo sabino via Flickr Recent figures released from ‘The Care Quality Commission‘ (CQC) have depicted that 5 years on from the first  ‘Count me in’ census – people from black and minority ethnic communities are still 3 times more likely [...]

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An Understandable Misunderstanding.

February 22, 2010

An Understandable Misunderstanding; Image by _behindthesun via Flickr Many people have some misunderstanding about  Brief Therapy (BT) or Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT).

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Are Roadside Death Memorials Dangerous?

January 20, 2010

Are Roadside Death Memorials Dangerous? Police and local authorities are taking action to curb the number of tributes left at the site of fatal road accidents. Image via WikipediaPolice and local authorities are taking action to curb the number of tributes left at the site of ‘fatal road accidents‘ FRA. They have said they believe [...]

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What is Communication?

December 16, 2009

What is Communication? Is it a two way street of dialogue and understanding of each other? Image via Wikipedia Communicating our emotions and feelings can for most, be a difficult process and one that I feel is responsible for many arguments, and conflicts. We are creatures of learnt behaviors. We learn from the environment in [...]

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