Posts tagged with 'depression'
Reducing risk of suicide: advice & resources for relatives, friends, health professionals & those at risk
5th January 2013
The "Connecting with People" website has the strapline "Promoting emotional resilience & suicide mitigation". On the site's "About us" page, they write "Open Minds Alliance CIC was formally established in 2010. The organisation emerged from a collaboration between Dr Alys Cole-King, liaison psychiatrist and specialist in suicide prevention and Gavin …
Recent research: articles from December journals
3rd January 2013
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,900 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Recent research: articles from November journals
10th December 2012
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,800 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Rumination: brooding, pondering, mindfulness, hypersensitivity, concreteness, writing - raising as many questions as answers
13th November 2012
Probably most cogntive-behavioural therapists subscribe to the general comment that rumination is a bad for depression. And it is, but as Oscar Wilde said "The truth is rarely pure and never simple". Smith & Alloy, in their 2009 paper "A roadmap to rumination: a review of the definition, assessment, and …
Recent research: articles from October journals
8th November 2012
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,600 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Recent research: articles from September journals
11th October 2012
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,400 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
So what dietary advice should we be following - for psychological as well as physical health?
22nd September 2012
A couple of days ago I wrote a blog post that I think makes a very important point - "Emerging research on diet suggests it's startingly important in the prevention of anxiety & depression". Much of what the post said is downloadable in Powerpoint and can be printed out as …
Emerging research on diet suggests it's startlingly important in the prevention of anxiety & depression
20th September 2012
The key points of this blog post can be downloaded & printed out as a helpful 6-slide-miniatures-to-a-page Powerpoint handout. Back in December 2009 I wrote a blog post entitled "New research shows diet's importance for preventing depression" where I commented "You know how it is - no buses in sight, …
Recent research: articles from August journals
10th September 2012
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Seven recent research studies: folate & depression; grain, cancer & weight control; protein & increased cardiovascular disease
16th August 2012
It's been a while since I wrote a blog post on diet. However there is a good deal of accuracy in the comment "You are what you eat". This is definitely an area it's crucial to consider for improvements in stress, health & wellbeing. So in previous posts, I have …