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2012:
Sept
24: Trapeze
artist's bipolar experience turns to circus
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circus is “perfect medium for bipolar disorder”
Feb
10: DSM-5 is "unscientific" and "dangerous"
- mental
health professionals criticise new planned diagnosis manual
2011:
Comment
Aug
29: Want to end mental health stigma? Stop medicalising distress
- psychiatric diagnoses lie at heart of negative attitudes towards
people with mental health problems, says Terry Simpson
June
17: Get to know your voices over cup of tea or cake, psychologist
advises people with psychosis -
new online advise by Rufus May on “changing the power relationship”
with voices
2010:
EXCLUSIVE
Oct
22: People prefer living with moods of bi-polar disorder, say clinical
psychologists in new report
Jan
15: Meditation could "prevent thousands" relapsing with
depression every year - claim made as charity promotes mindfulness
therapy for NHS
2009:
Comment:
We're
failing the elderly over care - A psychosocial programme for
dementia is as effective as drugs. But it's not available, so failing
thousands of patients and their carers, says Joanne
Knowles.
Sept
18: People with mental health problems to be prescribed self-help
books - pilot initiative launches in London
 EXCLUSIVE:
June
1: People with schizophrenia not more violent, claims study
- researcher Dr Niklas Långström, left, says
research challenges misperceptions
Comment:
April
24: Treating schizophrenia without drugs? There's good evidence
for it -
award-winning researcher and psychiatrist Tim Calton
examines studies demonstrating how psychosis can be managed without
medication.
April
15: Therapist anger at NHS "downplaying" of counselling
and psychotherapy - NICE states patients should be explained
about the "uncertainty" of counselling and psychodynamic
psychotherapy for depression
March
29: Mental ill health epidemic" behind anxiety surge -
400% rise in emails and double number of helpline calls reflects
recession fears says
Nicky Lidbetter, of the charity. Anxiety UK
Feb
24: Sharp rise in anorexia hospital admissions
- over
decade, the number of admissions among girls aged 16 and under jumped
from 256 to 462
Jan
30: Give people with personality disorder written information on
psychiatric drugs - mental health professional told information
should include evidence for drug effectiveness and harm, say new
guidelines
2008:
Feature:
Sept 5: Schizophrenia gene, where art thou? Molecular genetics
has failed to reliably identify DNA for schizophrenia. So has the
search been a complete damp squid? Adam James examines
the evidence.
EXCLUSIVE:
April
18: Underground recovery - Clinical
psychologist Rufus May
explains why, when using a non-drug approach to help a doctor who
heard voices, he had no choice but to work in secret.
 EXCLUSIVE:
April
14: "Unlikely" that key genes cause schizophrenia -
according to most comprehensive genetic study of its kind. Report
by Adam
James
 Jan
16: 'The Henderson saved my life' - here's why the acclaimed
personality disorder unit
should be saved, writes Kath Lovell
Jan
10: ADHD drug prescribing soars in Scotland -
more than 8 per cent of Scottish people aged 15 and over also take
antidepressants daily, new figures reveal
Mental
health comment:
Jan
10, 2008: The wrong advice - The national clinical guideline
on depression is flawed, acts as a mouthpiece for pharmaceutical
firms and pays lip service to the views of service users. We must
now challenge it, says Malcolm Learmonth
2007:
Nov
21: Government to consider review of ADHD causes and treatments
- Lords statement made following peer's concerns over prescribing
for ADHD
Nov
14: "Investigate ADHD drugs" peer to urge
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Baroness Susan Greenfield, a professor of pharmacology, says "time
is ripe for an inquiry exploring the actual causes of ADHD"
June
13: People with schizophrenia not on antipsychotics more likely
to recover, states research - patients in US are followed up
after 15 years
June
7: Personality disorder an invalid "catch-all" label which
damages women, says clinical psychologist -
Gillian Proctor attacks "growing prevalence of labeling women
with BPD"
2006:
Mental
health comment
Oct 24, 2006: "Abolish schizophrenia"
- The diagnosis of schizophrenia is unscientific and damaging, argue
Marius Romme and Paul Hammersley. They say we should
replace it with post-traumatic psychosis
Jan
23: Psychiatrists insist cannabis is a significant cause of psychosis
- doctors are “very concerned” about decision not to
upgrade cannabis to Class B drug.
Jan
16: Research the link between bad diet and mental ill heath, report
urges -
depression,
schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could
be partly caused by nutrition-deficient diet
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