anxiety – A New Vision for Mental Health

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

Breathwork May be Accessible Alternative for Anxiety Treatment

Author: Editorial 29th March 2023 0 Comments

“A new review suggests breathwork interventions may be a useful but under-researched non-drug alternative for anxiety treatment.“ This report by Woanjun Lee has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Breathwork is often seen as a method to alleviate distress…
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anxiety, Blerida Banushi, Brain Sciences, breathwork, Holotropic breathwork, Klein’s false-suffocation theory, Ley’s Hyperventilation theory, Mad in America, panic, Research, Woanjun Lee

‘Thirty years on, I still have symptoms from taking benzodiazepines’

Author: Editorial 20th March 2023 0 Comments

This report by David Cox has been published in The Telegraph. It begins: “In the 1970s and 1980s, vast numbers of people in the UK began taking benzodiazepines, a group of drugs more commonly known as tranquillisers, for stress, anxiety and…
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anxiety, Ativan, benzodiazepines, David Cox, drug dependency, psychiatry, The Telegraph, tranquillisers, Valium, Xanax

First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A new story about anxiety

Author: Editorial 11th January 2023 0 Comments

This book has been written by Sarah Wilson. The publishers say: “If you have anxiety, this book is for you. If you love someone who is anxious, this book is for you.I Quit Sugar founder and New York Times bestselling author Sarah Wilson…
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anxiety, books, Sarah Wilson