Mental Health Articles
Can we alter the GIT (Gut) micro-biome and change our emotions? Often a client will say to me, “John, I feel it here…”, pointing to their abdomen, and as we deal with the anxiety-Depression their GIT symptoms decrease, or, as we have noted before, as we treat the Gut...
Mental Health Articles
A recent study by Dr K J Bender, reported in Psychiatric Times, 16 February, Vol 43/2 noted that “adjunctive lithium treatment significantly reduces clinical recurrence, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts in Bipolar Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder...
Mental Health Articles
The debate has been vigorous in the US “Psychiatric Times” on this subject through February-March this year, and it raises some great points to reflect upon for us all as clinicians and often also as patients taking the medications. Remember always that most of us...
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I have had many doctors ask questions about this subject at seminars I have run on Stress, Anxiety and Depression. Finally, it is being debated robustly by American Psychiatrists and the findings are interesting, indicating that some (not all) patients have...
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Before a recent Psychiatry Conference in the USA a speculative pre-conference paper challenged all attendees to think about the relationship of Anxiety to Loneliness. It’s a great challenge to us all, as how much of our modern “anxiety-epidemic” is a reflection of the...
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Psychiatry Times articles through late January have reminded all clinicians to factor in nutrition to all patient interactions, as food is the body’s fuel and the wrong sort, the wrong amount, and bad habits with eating can create major health crises that will...