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A Holistic Self‑learning Approach for Young Adult Depression and Anxiety Compared to Medication‑Based Treatment‑As‑Usual

Author: Editorial 12th January 2022 0 Comments

This study – conducted by Shannon Hughes, Mary Rondeau, Scott Shannon, Julia Sharp, Grace Ivins, JeongJin Lee, Ian Taylor, and Brianna Bendixsen – has been published in the Community Mental Health Journal. The abstract says: “A package of biopsychosocial services for…
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anxiety, biopsychosocial model, children and adolescents, Community Mental Health Journal, depression, holistic self-learning, nutrition, Research

Creating A Mental Illness Called Schizophrenia

Author: Editorial 5th January 2022 0 Comments

Subtitled “A brief history of an archetypal psychiatric diagnosis”, this article by Dr. John Read has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “During the pandemic, increased incidences of distress can be portrayed as proliferations of mental illnesses such as ‘Depressive…
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a coherent system

anxiety, depression, diagnostic labelling, history of psychiatry, John Read, psychiatry, Psychology Today, schizophrenia

The student studying the healing power of surfing

Author: Editorial 2nd December 2021 0 Comments

Morag Kinniburgh reports for BBC News Scotland: “Jamie Marshall says his PhD from Edinburgh’s Napier University is the first in the world focused on ‘surf therapy’. He has spent the past four years studying what he says are the healing powers…
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anxiety, BBC, BBC News Scotland, blue space, Jamie Marshall, Morag Kinniburgh, PTSD, surf therapy, surfing, wave project, wellbeing

Pop Pills: the usage of behavior medication by kids in the USA

Author: Editorial 4th November 2021 0 Comments

POP PILLS is the result of an extended investigation by French photojournalist Baptiste Lignel on the use of “behavior medication“ by youths in the USA. The publishers say: This book combines M. Lignel’s photography with elements from popular culture and social media, which bring additional voices to the narrative…
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ADHD, anxiety, Baptiste Lignel, behavior medication, behaviour medication, books, Culture & Society, depression, OCD, popular culture, social media, USA

gameChange: virtual reality therapy for mental health issues to be delivered by the NHS

Author: Editorial 1st October 2021 0 Comments

The people at gameChange say that the VR therapy provided “allows a person to practise being in simulations of everyday situations … a café, shop, pub, street, doctor’s surgery, and a bus.” The background to this approach is described as follows:…
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anxiety, avatar therapy, gameChange, New Approaches, NIHR i4i Mental Health Challenge Award, psychosis, virtual reality, VR

Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show

Author: Editorial 16th September 2021 0 Comments

James Wakefield, reporting for the BBC, cites an article in the Wall Street Journal headlined “Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show”. His article begins: “Facebook-owned Instagram has been criticised for keeping secret its internal research into…
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anxiety, BBC, children and adolescents, depression, Facebook, Instagram, James Wakefield, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, social media, suicidality, teenage girls, Wall Street Journal

How tech could help create ‘music prescriptions’

Author: Editorial 18th June 2021 0 Comments

This 4 minute video comes from the BBC, who say: “Companies are exploring how data could be used to create a so-called prescription playlists of music – perhaps even one day replacing pain-killers or some types of anti-anxiety medication. BBC Click’s…
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AI, algorithms, anxiety, BBC Click, Jen Copestake, medimusic, music therapy, prescription playlists, Research, videos, Warren Youth Project

What happened when I ate ultra-processed food for a month

Author: Editorial 7th June 2021 0 Comments

There is increasing evidence that the food we eat has a significant impact, positive or negative, on our mental health (see for example Brain Changer: How diet can save your mental health – cutting-edge science from an expert ). This BBC article is about an experiment involving Dr Chris van Tulleken and a month-long diet he…
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anxiety, BBC, Chris van Tulleken, diet, food, National Institute of Health, neuroscience, nutrition, nutritional psychiatry, obesity, sleep disruption, wellbeing

Sometimes Embracing Emotional Distress Is the Best Medicine

Author: Editorial 27th May 2021 0 Comments

This article – subtitled “Avoiding mental discomfort at any cost can be a self-defeating strategy” – has been published in Scientific American and written by Joanna Cheek. As a side note, the avoidance of emotional distress and mental discomfort is one…
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emotion-focused care

anxiety, emotional distress, emotions, Joanna Cheek, New Approaches, Opposite Action, Scientific American

‘My doctor prescribed rambling for lockdown anxiety’

Author: Editorial 30th April 2021 0 Comments

Angie Brown reports for BBC Scotland: “An Edinburgh widower who was struggling with mental health issues due to the isolation of lockdown has walked 2,000 miles in a year after his doctor prescribed that he join the Ramblers. Jim Snodgrass, 84,…
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Angie Brown, anxiety, BBC Scotland, exercise, green spaces, social prescribing, The Ramblers, Victor Jack, walking, wellbeing