Anti-depressants: “They’re popped like smarties.”
Are GPs prescribing them too often, or are we getting better at acknowledging depression? This is a 13 minute podcast (2014) from the BBC’s Woman’s Hour radio programme.
Author Archive: Editorial
‘Overwhelming and terrifying’: the rise of climate anxiety
“Experts concerned young people’s mental health particularly hit by reality of the climate crisis” Writing in The Guardian , Matthew Taylor and Jessica Murray say: “Over the past few weeks Clover Hogan has found herself crying during the day and waking up…
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Empirical evidence of mental health risks posed by climate change
“These results provide added large-scale evidence to the growing literature linking climate change and mental health.” This research article has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and co-authored by Nick Obradovich, Robyn Migliorini, Martin Paulus,…
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Listening to the Voices People Hear: Auditory Hallucinations Beyond a Diagnostic Framework
This research paper has been written by Dr. Eleanor Longden and published in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. The abstract cited in ResearchGate says: “While voice hearing (auditory verbal hallucinations) is closely allied with psychosis/schizophrenia, it is well-established that the experience is…
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Too Many Pills
Bad things happen and can drive you crazy
“Of 701 people who had taken antipsychotics, far more (76%) believed their difficulties were the result of life events and circumstances than subscribed to a ‘medical model’ perspective (17%).” As published in the journal Psychiatry Research, the full title of…
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How competent (really) are mental health practitioners?
This short, animated video (see below) from David Dunning concerns the “Dunning-Kruger effect”. It’s well worth watching because the question of competence has (of course) strong relevance to trainee mental health practitioners of all types, to the training of mental…
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Higher minimum wages are linked to lower suicide rates
“A study estimates that $1 more would save thousands of lives” The Economist magazine, citing a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health , say that: “OF ALL THE tactics governments employ to raise living standards, few stir as much controversy as the minimum wage. Advocates claim that minimum…
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‘My doctor mistook my OCD for paedophilia’
I studied neuroscience to understand my addictions. Now I know it’s not the cure
“Substance misuse is not a simple problem of brain chemistry. The most powerful influences lie outside our heads” Writing in The Guardian , Judith Grisel says: “I used to think addiction was caused by screwy molecules in the brain, and would be…
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