anxiety – A New Vision for Mental Health

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt – a pocket full of poison

Author: Editorial 22nd March 2024 0 Comments

“An urgent and persuasive warning about the toll of ‘phone-based childhoods’” This article by Sophie McBain has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “At the start of the 2010s, rates of teenage mental illness took a sharp upward turn, and…
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anxiety, children and adolescents, Jonathan Haidt, smartphones, social media, Sophie McBain, The Guardian

Mindfulness as Effective as Antidepressant for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

Author: Editorial 15th December 2023 0 Comments

This report from Richard Sears has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “A new article published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) is as effective in treating anxiety disorders as the antidepressant escitalopram. According to the current…
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antidepressants, anxiety, Elizabeth Hoge, JAMA Psychiatry, Mad in America, MBSR, mindfulness, mindfulness based stress reduction, New Approaches, Research, Richard Sears

Expanding the social cure: a mixed-methods approach exploring the role of online group dance as support for young people (aged 16–24) living with anxiety

Author: Editorial 18th October 2023 0 Comments

This research article has been published by Frontiers. It begins: “There is an increased interest in whether online arts interventions support mental health and social connections. This study explored eight weeks of online group dance as support for young people (aged 16–24)…
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anxiety, dance, dancing, online arts, social cure, social prescribing, young adults

Psychobiotics and the need for better interventional data

Author: Editorial 14th September 2023 0 Comments

This article (with relevance to mental health) has been published in BMC Medicine. It begins: “Gut microbiota composition has been associated with multiple health outcomes: various studies employing predictive genetic studies and randomised controlled trials suggest this is the case. More…
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anxiety, BMC Medicine, depression, diet, gut microbiota, nutritional psychiatry, probiotics, psychobiotics, Research

Viktor Frankl: The doctor who prescribed the meaning of life to his patients

Author: Editorial 21st August 2023 0 Comments

“Anxious? Dr. Frankl suggested you take a different view of things.” This article by Scotty Hendricks has been published in Freethink. It begins: “Many people struggle with the question of what the meaning of their life is. The dread that can…
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& Psychology, anxiety, depression, Freethink, logotherapy, meaning, meaning-making, neurosis, Scotty Hendricks, Talking Therapies, Viktor Frankl

Placebo effects and the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Author: Editorial 14th July 2023 0 Comments

This twitter thread from the Royal College of Psychiatrists concerns a presentation called “The placebo effect: insights for translational research and clinical practice”. The thread includes the following: “… 50 years of drug trials for anxiety disorders. Very few have been successful…
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anxiety, depression, neuroscience, placebo effect, psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Psychiatry Killed Tuva Andersson, Whose Problem Was Anxiety

Author: Editorial 13th July 2023 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Peter Gøtzsche has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Tuva Andersson was 37 years old when she committed suicide in 2019 in her apartment where she lived alone in Sweden. Her mother, Karina Hjelm, wanted…
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anxiety, diagnostic labelling, forced treatment, Mad in America, Peter Gøtzsche, Polypharmacy, psychiatry, suicide, Sweden, Tuva Andersson

I’m a psychologist with a history of anxiety. Treating it as a permanent problem might make young people feel worse

Author: Editorial 10th July 2023 0 Comments

“When we give children the label but no tools to challenge it, their worlds grow smaller. My life’s greatest moments involved facing my fears” This opinion piece from Lucy Foulkes has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “I was an anxious…
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anxiety, fear, Lucy Foulkes, The Guardian

Concern as a third of NHS mental health treatments shift online

Author: Editorial 5th July 2023 0 Comments

Rosie Taylor reports for The Observer: “Twice as many people with mental health conditions are being given virtual therapy on the NHS compared with before the pandemic began. An Observer analysis of data from private providers, cross-checked against NHS figures, reveals around one…
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anxiety, CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, depression, digital healthcare, NHS Talking Therapies, online treatments, Rosie Taylor, Talking Therapies, The Observer

The definition of mental health has been widened so much that it’s now almost meaningless

Author: Editorial 15th May 2023 0 Comments

This article by Martha Gill has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “The psychiatrist Simon Wessely once said his spirits sank every time there was a mental health awareness week . ‘We don’t need people to be more aware. We can’t deal with the…
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anxiety, Martha Gill, medicalisation, mental health awareness, Mental Health Foundation, stigmatisation, The Guardian, wellbeing