insomnia – A New Vision for Mental Health

New Study Finds Depression in Older Adults Could Be Prevented With Sleep Training

Author: Editorial 16th March 2022 0 Comments

This study – “Prevention of Incident and Recurrent Major Depression in Older Adults With Insomnia: A Randomized Clinical Trial” – has been published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. It found that older adults who underwent cognitive therapy for insomnia were 50%…
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CBT, CBT-I, depression, insomnia, JAMA Psychiatry, Research, sleep disruption, sleep education therapy (SET)

‘Safe’ Z-drug sleeping tablets given to MILLIONS each year are as addictive as Valium – and they can cause crushing anxiety, flu-like effects and suicidal thoughts

Author: Editorial 21st April 2021 0 Comments

Reporting for the Daily Mail, Miranda Levy writes : “Zopiclone is the so-called ‘safer’ sleeping pill dished out by doctors to millions of Britons each year. When it was launched in the 1990s, it was touted as a user-friendly alternative to…
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anxiety, Daily Mail, drug withdrawal symptoms, insomnia, Joanna Moncrieff, Miranda Levy, sleep, sleep disruption, sleeping pills, suicidal thoughts, Z-drug sleeping tablets, Zopiclone

The Truth About … Improving Your Mental Health

Author: Editorial 27th January 2021 0 Comments

This 57 minute video from the BBC ranges across a variety of subjects, including heartbeat control, diet and the gut-to-brain vagal nerve connection, exercise, passive vs active engagement with social media, loneliness, social prescribing, insomnia and more. The programme producers say:…
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Alex Scott, anxiety, COM-B Behaviour Change Model, cortisol, Cranial electrotherapy stimulation, depression, diet, exercise, gut microbiome, heartbeat control, insomnia, loneliness, neuroscience, probiotics, psychobiotics, sleep disruption, social media, social prescribing, stress, Tanya Byron, videos

Sleep and mental health

Author: Editorial 25th January 2021 0 Comments

This article , written within an American context, has been published in the Harvard Mental Health Newsletter: “Sleep and mental health are closely connected. Sleep deprivation affects your psychological state and mental health. And those with mental health problems are more…
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ADHD, anxiety, bipolar, depression, Harvard Mental Health Newsletter, insomnia, sleep

Medicating Normal (a film)

Author: Editorial 20th August 2020 1 Comment

Medicating Normal is a film from Periscope Moving Pictures. A virtual screening will take place on Sat, August 22, 2020 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM BST, followed by an interactive discussion. Details from here . Film synopsis: “Medicating Normal follows the journeys…
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depression, drug withdrawal symptoms, films, insomnia, Periscope Moving Pictures, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Drugs, stress, trauma

Benzo Free: The World of Anti-Anxiety Drugs and the Reality of Withdrawal

Author: Editorial 26th March 2020 0 Comments

This book has been written by D E Foster: “Do you suffer from anxiety or insomnia? Have you ever taken Xanax to help? What about Klonopin, Ativan, or Valium? Perhaps Ambien or Lunesta? Over 36 million people in the U.S. take…
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anti-anxiety drugs, anxiety, benzodiazepines, books, D E Foster, drug withdrawal, insomnia, nonbenzodiazepines (z-drugs), thienodiazepine

How does temperature affect mental health?

Author: Editorial 6th January 2020 0 Comments

This article in Medical News Today begins: “According to a recent study, there is an association between hotter temperatures and an increase both in the number of hospital visits for mental health reasons and in suicide rates. Suicide is one of the leading…
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insomnia, Journal of Health Economics, Medical News Today, Research, sleep, sleep disruption, temperature

The effects of improving sleep on mental health

Author: Editorial 7th January 2019 0 Comments

The full title of this paper – published Sept. 2017 in The Lancet Psychiatry – is “The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis”. “Background Sleep difficulties might be a contributory causal factor in the…
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