Mentally ill man charged with murder following scissors attack – Jamaica Gleaner
Mentally ill man charged with murder following scissors attack Jamaica Gleaner
Category: Mental Health
Mentally ill man charged with murder following scissors attack Jamaica Gleaner
ASMR videos can mimic the feeling of physical touch, which a study has found is popular with young consumers. But how many intimate gestures of love, care and connection are they missing out on? You wouldn’t think a deep dive on slime-squishing and head-scratching videos could be haunting, but a recent study on ASMR content […]
Former talkshow host takes public her battle to remove her guardian, ordered by a court due to dementia and aphasia The note dropped from the upper floor window of an assisted living facility in New York on the morning of 10 March contained a simple message: “Help! Wendy!!” it read. For any patient inside, it […]
Wes Streeting warns against ‘overdiagnosis’ of mental health problems The Telegraph
Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions The Guardian
Trusts work with the Royal Horticultural Society to create outdoor refuges for staff and patients For Hayleigh Austin-Richards, it is a place to have a cry, breathe fresh air and remind herself there is something magical about butterflies. As often as she can, the ward manager of Chapel Allerton’s stroke rehabilitation unit in Leeds visits […]
Health secretary says too many people are being ‘written off’ and that is driving ministers’ changes to welfare The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said he believes there is an “overdiagnosis” of some mental health conditions as well as “too many people being written off” – factors he said were the key drive for the […]
Hundreds of young people in Greater Manchester are being forced to wait over a year for a mental health appointment, figures show.
Far from the gentle time off it’s billed as, the reality of maternity leave can be scary, lonely and destabilising When I started to approach my second maternity leave, five years after the first, my main feeling was not excitement or freedom but dread. That low, leaden kind of panic, which grew inside me alongside […]
GPs are increasingly directing vulnerable people to practitioners in a booming industry with no oversight I was struck by the news last week that GPs are so overwhelmed with mental health patients that they are directing them to the care of unregulated charities. Complex cases are now in the hands of therapists who are not […]