Mental Health

The Safe Haven Crisis & Recovery Centre is a safe space for people in acute emotional distress. Based in Weston-super-Mare town centre, it offers a mix of face-to-face and remote support. With coproduction at its heart, it was co-designed with clinicians and people with lived experience and is the first service of its kind in…

“Behaviour is the language of trauma”– Gross K, 2022. For decades, adverse experiences in childhood such as maltreatment or neglect, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness or parental separation have been recognised as key risk factors for developing psychosis later in life. Ten years ago, a Mental Elf blog (Wood S, 2015) highlighted…

Fostering an air of acceptance not found on other social networking sites; The Tribe – Wellness Community has become a top destination for mental health support. Since 2006, we are fueled by the idea of creating safe, easy-to-navigate support communities for individuals facing various mental health illnesses, addictions, and diseases. Source link

I read Arash Emamzadeh’s recent Psychology Today post “The Deadly Truth About Broken Heart Syndrome in Men” with interest. I am not a man, However, over the July 4 weekend, I was hospitalized in Manhattan with takotsubo cardiomyopathy. On the Wednesday before the holiday weekend, while walking from Grand Central Station to my office, I…

Briffault’s law states: “The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place”. This idea asserts that females determine whether or not a relationship takes place. Essentially, they seek to understand if the benefits outweigh the…

There’s something curiously noble in believing we must preserve peace at all cost, that we should trim discomfort from conversations and sand off the edges of daily life – and yet, when we treat that belief as an instruction manual for every personal exchange, we begin to compress some part of ourselves inward; what once…

Wait… Why Does This Feel So Hard? You landed the new job, moved into a fresh space, ended (or started) a relationship, or became a parent. This transition was supposed to be exciting, so why does it feel so uncomfortable instead? Whether you’re navigating life transitions for the first time or facing another major change,…

This is the first large-scale study to look closely at what influences depression in women with premature menopause. Its authors believe these findings underline the importance of treating both the body and the mind when managing POI, especially since diagnosis often comes at a young age. Dr. Monica Christmas, associate medical director for The Menopause…

A FASMI (Family Alliance For Severe Mental Illness) interview with Professor emeritus of Psychiatry, Dr. Richard O’Reilly. For more information about FASMI, visit https://www.fasmi.ca/ To contact us for further information, membership, or to donate, our e-mail address is fasmiadvocates@gmail.com Source link