Seven lifestyle changes that lower risk of depression
The Telegraph
‘Thirty years on, I still have symptoms from taking benzodiazepines’
Fishing cures PTSD and anxiety, first ever clinical study aims to prove
Scientists discover what could be stopping you from happiness
Gardening can do what medicine only ‘tries to mimic’ for mental health, Monty Don says
“That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are small things but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic.” Helena…
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‘We are a sedated society’: the rise in antidepressants during lockdown
Darkness therapy: could seven days in pitch blackness open your eyes to the world?
“Patients report seismic psychological changes after spending a week in darkness – but science sounds a note of caution” Writing in The Telegraph newspaper, David Hillier reports: “Darkness gets a terrible rap, doesn’t it? Imagine yourself surrounded by interminable blackness and you’ll…
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‘I lost a decade of my life to prescription drugs’
“The main sufferers of prescription-medication withdrawal are white women over the age of 45. We know how to put people on these drugs, we just don’t know how to get them off.” Dr. David Healy, professor of psychiatry, Bangor University….
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Drug trials ‘skewed by the pharmaceutical industry,’ GPs say
A report by Laura Donnelly in The Telegraph (June 2017) notes that: “Four in five GPs believe drug trials are skewed by the pharmaceutical industry, amid widespread mistrust in medical research, polling shows. A report by the Academy of Medical Sciences is…
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