Mental Health Articles
In New Zealand we have the Green Party with a passionate commitment to pushing a, “Cannabis is safe and wonderful” message, and yet the evidence is building in places where cannabis has been fully legalised that things are not that rosy at all. Oklahoma has led the...
Mental Health Articles
A significant challenge to the Dutch liberalism regarding Euthanasia has been made early this year by Jim Van Os, Wilbert Van Rooij, and Mark S Komrad, three psychiatrists in Holland who are persuasively arguing that activists have pushed the boundaries of psychiatry...
Mental Health Articles
A shocking admission from a study by Rutgers and Harvard Health. “Young adults viewing social media posts from influencers involving alcohol were more likely to desire participation in drinking”. My questions immediately is, are these young people more vulnerable to...
Mental Health Articles
Recent studies in America have just “discovered” what all of us who have been active in psycho-neuro-immunology over the years have always known… if we suppress our immune system by sustaining high stress related steroid levels, we suppress our immune system. Given...
Mental Health Articles
A recent article in Psychiatry Times on 4 February this year rang the alarm bells for me on what we have forgotten through the years about failure to address anxiety and depression in people who just “get by” with sub-optimal mood untreated often for years. The recent...
Mental Health Articles
I am appalled at some modern University researchers who reject all research older than ten years as not worthy of reference or quotation, as if a solid piece of evidence may decay over time like their all too fallible brains. I was challenged on this many years ago by...