Anxiety is a mental disorder that often dovetails with depression and alternates from mild discomfort to almost uncontrollable panic with physical symptoms. Some medications have been known to ease anxiety, they may also suffer from undesirable side...
According to historical record, soldiers of the Roman Empire marched with rations of bread baked with flaxseed meal and flax seed oil 9000 years ago. They most likely felt the “grounded” feeling, a feeling of mental stability after eating their...
After 20 years of these so-called miracle antidepressants, psychiatrists are shocked to discover that drug companies withheld information about the risks of this class of drugs - and with the tacit approval of the drug regulators. It all started so...
The Wellness Inventory is available through both professional and institutional licensing programs. Individual health professionals, consultants, wellness coaches and therapists may license the Wellness Inventory to faciliate 1-on-1...
Re ME/CFS (WDDTY vol 14 no 12), the WHO categorises ‘chronic fatigue’ states as ‘Mental Health Problems and Behavioural Disorders’ under F48.0 whereas ME (and CFS) are classified as ‘Neurological Disorders’ under G93.3.
MENTAL TESTING: Momma, we're all crazy now
In a list of the most shameful aspects of modern medicine, psychiatry must come at the top of the heap. This is the discipline that has given us - in the name of ‘first-do-no-harm’ hippocratic medicine - electric shock treatment, the lobotomy...
On the back wards, where the sun doesn’t shine, time is measured in the burning of a cigarette. Behind a two-inch-thick steel door and diagnosed with schizophrenia,
As a psychotherapist, I share your concerns over how current legislation will allow doctors to effectively jail those deemed likely to commit a crime in the future by virtue of a possible future ‘insanity’,
The growing ‘grey’ population may be raking in the cash for drug companies, but look at the other end of the age spectrum and you’ll also see burgeoning trade. The number of children diagnosed with mental disorders, including attention...