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02 | 04 | 2012
Do you want to dance?

“I want you to talk.” Are the first words to me from a young, blonde, small headed woman who I take to be Fiona De Clerk. I am in the building of the Community Mental Health Team. There had

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15 | 05 | 2013
Why the object of exercise is not just a physical one: Regular exercise lowers depression risk by up to 30 per cent

Just 10 minutes’ brisk walking can improve your emotional state, according to a report being released by the Mental Health Foundation to mark the start of Mental Health Awareness Week.

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15 | 05 | 2013
Carers should be monitored for mental health problems, warn doctors

Carers should be routinely screened for depression and mental health problems

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15 | 05 | 2013
 Absence of dad linked to depression in teen girls

Girls who are left by their fathers before the age of five are more likely to develop depression as teenagers, according to a new study.

Research shows girls are most at risk of

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15 | 05 | 2013
Emily Lloyd: I've beaten depression, drugs, Tourette's and obsessive compulsive disorder

Lloyd hit the heights young – but her career came apart with a series of catastrophic health crises, reports the Sunday People .

The pretty 16-year-old who rocketed to fame in

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15 | 05 | 2013
 Minds traumatised by disaster heal themselves without therapy

One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded hit on Boxing Day 2004. The resulting tsunami

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15 | 05 | 2013
Why mental health isn’t just about the mind

[Warning - TRIGGER ALERT]

I recently heard of a survey that has revealed 25% of adults across Britain walk for less than an hour each week (

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14 | 05 | 2013
Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader - review

It may seem perverse to express nostalgia for a category of mental illness, but many sufferers, as well as some psychiatrists, regret the passing of "manic depression". My brother, Archie,

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14 | 05 | 2013
TURNING GRIEF INTO AN ILLNESS

This month we are due to see the publication of a new edition, called DSM-5. ‘The situation is only going to get worse,’ Frances told me. 

 

‘DSM-5 is suggesting

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14 | 05 | 2013
Amanda Bynes and the crass media treatment of 'troubled starlets'.

Question: when does a Mail article about a celebrity posting nude selfies on Twitter transcend from banal lechery to something truly, irresponsibly odious?

Answer: when the

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14 | 05 | 2013