With the UK having one of the highest self-harm rates in Europe questions are being raised about the quality of health care available to them. In a self-harm report conducted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists over half of the 1,500 members surveyed felt they or their team did not have sufficient training to assess read more »

We already know that the country is suffering from an obesity problem which spans children, teenagers and adults. A newly published study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has confirmed a link between depression and abdominal obesity. Assistant Professor of Sociology at UAB Belinda Needham has said in a sample taken from young read more »

According to a recent study from the National Institute of Health (NIH) around 7 million of the Americans over the age of 65 are suffering from clinical depression and are taking prescription antidepressant drugs which could have side affects such as an increased risk of cataracts. The antidepressant drugs in question are known as selective read more »

People have long since believed that eating chocolate can make them happy, however a new study has challenged this relationship after finding that chocoholics are more depressive than those who only indulge now and then. The study which involved almost 1,000 adults showed that the more chocolate the participants ate the lower his or her read more »

Recent research has found that anxiety and depression are linked by biological association. The researchers in Canada have found a cellular link between anxiety and depression in the brain and they hope their findings will lead to the development of an improved way of treating depression. The University of Western Ontario, who conducted the study read more »

Losing someone we love is one of the hardest things we will have to experience in life. Often death causes such a flow of emotions that we find ourselves unable to grieve or alternatively we don’t know how to stop. Ether way, hypnosis is a natural way to help you complete you grieving by ether read more »

Postnatal depression, is a form of clinical depression which can affect parents after childbirth, it is dominantly females that suffer from the condition but men have also been known to develop it. The depression usually occurs in women after they have carried a child, often happening within the first few months. Symptoms include sadness, fatigue, read more »

In todays society we are constantly presented with images of what is deemed ‘perfect’. Body dysmorphic disorder is a chronic illness in that is defined by an excessive preoccupation with an imagined or a minor defect, or in plain english, someone who who views themselves as imperfect, ugly, misshapen. Treatment ranges from medication to cognitive read more »

Most of us will have flippantly used the term ‘shopoholic’ for describing a friend or even had the term aimed at ourselves, but very little of us really understand the true gravity of what it is like to be a compulsive shopper. It is not a case of going on the odd shopping spree after read more »

Often the root of our depression is buried deep in our subconscious. This could be anything from a negative body image right through to a childhood memory. We are often unaware of the sources of these troubled feelings but hypnotherapy is something that could help peel back the layers in order to access and eliminate read more »