Kleptomania
Kleptomania is a recognised mental health problem which compels people to steal trivial items. However, only one per cent of people…
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Mental health behind bars
Many people in prison suffer from mental illness and the Prison Service in the UK has under its care one…
Caught in the blues
Antidepressant prescribing rates have increased year on year over the past 25 years with now more than 60 million prescriptions…
Youthful voices in mental health
The Youth Health Parliament is a group of young professionals who have been selected to debate and formulate new ideas…
Brief Psychotic Disorder
This is a form of psychosis, triggered by a traumatic event or stressor, that lasts a short time only. Brief psychotic disorder…
The brain of Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s is a disease that physically affects the brain, causing the cells to die off. It is named after a German…
Histrionic personality disorder
This is a rare type of personality disorder, and diagnosis is controversial. However, symptoms include the fact that sufferers seek…
Doctors at greater risk of depression
Sometimes very distressed doctors in the NHS do make the news – as with Daksha Emerson, a young psychiatrist who…
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…
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…
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)…