Histrionic Personality Disorder
This is a type of personality disorder, which is marked out by the sufferers need for constant attention and exaggerated…
mental health
When depression drugs stop working
For all sorts of reasons, people who have been taking medication for depression (or related conditions including anxiety and OCD)…
Anorexia nervosa
This is a complex eating disorder which is characterised by low body weight accompanied by a body image distortion. The…
Self-harm
Self-harm is when someone deliberately hurts or injures him or herself. This can take a number of forms including: cutting,…
Whose life are you living?
Echoism – A life dominated by the other. Psychotherapists Mark Linington, Chair of the Bowlby Centre, Elisa Morris and Nell…
Mind over Matter?
When we think of healthcare, I expect the majority of us would think of broken arms, twisted ankles, or the…
Agoraphobia
Until recently, agoraphobia was defined as a fear of open spaces. It now also includes several other related fears such…
Tap water for that feel good factor
In Scotland, scientists are looking into claims that adding lithium to water supplies could help our mental wellbeing. Lithium occurs…
Physician, heal thyself?
I became a doctor influenced by my late father, a single-handed general practitioner. He, like many doctors in the 1960’s…