Breaking the Bonds: Understanding Depression, Finding Freedom
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Brain Changer: How diet can save your mental health – cutting-edge science from an expert
Gut Feelings Study
The Food and Mood Centre (Deakin University, Australia) is conducting research into ‘psychobiotics’. The researchers say: “The term ‘psychobiotics’ has recently been coined to refer to treatments for mental and neurological conditions that act via the gut microbiome. Specifically, these could…
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Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood
Allison Aubrey and Rhitu Chatterjee, reporting for America’s National Public Radio (NPR): “There’s fresh evidence that eating a healthy diet, one that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables and limits highly processed foods, can help reduce symptoms of depression. A randomized controlled trial published in the journal PLOS ONE finds that symptoms of depression dropped…
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Magic Medicine
Can magic mushrooms cure depression? The film’s website says: “Over 4 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering…
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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Literature and Mental Health: Reading for Wellbeing
This free, online course is offered by FutureLearn (owned by the Open University), who say: “Find out how poems, plays and novels can help us understand and cope with deep emotional strain. The great 18th century writer Dr Samuel Johnson, who suffered from…
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‘It’s time to recognise the contribution arts can make to health and wellbeing’
This article by Nicola Slawson inThe Guardian newspaper begins: “ Arts and Minds , a leading arts and mental health charity, has been running weekly art workshops for people experiencing depression, stress or anxiety in Cambridgeshire for the past seven years. Led by an…
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The Need For Authenticity
In the video below, Dr. Gabor Maté explains why he links significant risk factors for chronic illness (including mental illnesses such as depression) to the suppression of healthy emotions. His talk includes topics such as: The human attachment drive (being taken…
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Time for a Sea-Change: NICE Guidelines Need a Revised Methodology
Since July 2017 the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) UK has been leading a major stakeholder campaign calling on the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to conduct a “full and proper revision” of its 2009 guidelines on the Recognition and…
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