The current prominence of mental illness on bookshelves is good for all of us – so it's important that reading about it is not a passing fad, writes Joanna Cannon.
Category Archives: Psychosis
Another hole in PTSD. | Dark Brightness
The idea of Post traumatic stress disorder is that there is a direct and causal effect between the trauma and the psychological symptoms it causes. This has often been challenged, as the current criteria for PTSD can include …
Study Looks at Quality of Mental Health Care in US Military | Psych …
In a new RAND Corporation Study that evaluated the quality of mental health care in the United States military, researchers found both areas of excellence and.
These brave mothers' stories must chip away at the stigma of …
This is causing a tragedy on an unbelievable scale: at least one in 10 women suffer from depression in pregnancy or postnatally, but only one in 10 of those women get the help they need. Even for extremely severe forms of illnesses, such as those depicted in … The two women featured in the documentary, Hannah and Jenny, both suffered a severe episode of illness known as postpartum psychosis. To show what this illness is, and why specialist treatment should be …
Forget about a mental health revolution without new cash | Polly …
Suicide rates are rising, as is self-harming, with services so bad that lives are “put on hold or ruined” for lack of care, with mental health patients dying 15 to 20 years earlier than others. Beds are so scarce that 2,000 acutely ill …