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 focus on prevention, and a lack...
Tag: mental illness
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 taking medication at a maintenance...
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) for many years may find...
Anorexia nervosa
This is a complex eating disorder which is characterised by low body weight accompanied by a body image distortion. The sufferer has an obsessive fear...
Mind over Matter?
When we think of healthcare, I expect the majority of us would think of broken arms, twisted ankles, or the dreaded winter flu that threatens...
Agoraphobia
Until recently, agoraphobia was defined as a fear of open spaces. It now also includes several other related fears such as a fear of entering...
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 came as a foreigner to...
