MND Awareness Month
I will never forget my first day at the Association office in Northampton in autumn 1996. I walked in and…
Mental Health
Legal headache for medics
I am a hospital doctor who is thinking about leaving the profession I love. It is not because I doubt my…
Pain can haunt you
Never underestimate the impact of emotional and psychological factors on human wellbeing. We know that the mind and the body…
Emotional Health
We all feel the complete range of emotions throughout our lives, depending on what is happening around us and to…
Mental Health and Immigrants
People who have migrated to a country from their homeland are much more vulnerable to mental illness. Studies carried out…
A time bomb waiting to explode
Young people’s mental health services are at crisis point. GPs are having to cope with the consequences of our failure to…
When eating right is wrong
Orthorexia comes from the Greek word ‘ortho’ meaning correct and it’s a compulsion to eat a biologically perfect diet. Sufferers…
Why orthorexia is real
Orthorexia is not officially recognised as a medical condition. The term was coined back in the 90s by Dr.Steven Bratman…
Depression drugs don’t wear off
Over a period of years, between 10 and 20 per cent of patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder who are…
Histrionic Personality Disorder
This is a type of personality disorder, which is marked out by the sufferers need for constant attention and exaggerated…