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NHS Value
"We will defeat this coronavirus and defeat it together. We will win because our NHS is the beating heart of this country. It is the best of this country. It is unconquerable. It is powered by love.”
– Boris...
April 17, 2020, 2:38 pm
Science & Psychology of the Coronavirus Crisis
There is rightly criticism of the pseudoscience of the behaviourism the government promotes in tandem with the expertise of epidemiologists and virologists. But there is one psychological principle that helps explain the misery that the crisis...
April 17, 2020, 2:38 pm
Covid19 Outbreak – Psychological Issues around Social Isolation
Many nations are undergoing some form of “lock-down”, so some anxiety is normal. Borwin Bandelow, from Gottingen in Germany, who has conducted a study on fear, said humans developed into social creatures to survive, so isolation was...
April 17, 2020, 2:38 pm
HG therapist Marion Brown spoke at the 2019 PTSDR conference about likely issues in working with medicated clients – as we therapists frequently find ourselves doing.
Further to this, a recently published “Mad In America” article links important research and raises very pertinent issues about the possible relationship between increasing prescribing of antidepressants (and other medications) and a rise in veteran suicides.
"There is clear evidence that SSRIs and SNRI antidepressants can provoke suicidal impulses and acts in some users, and the reason is well known. SSRIs and other antidepressants can stir extreme restlessness, agitation, insomnia, severe anxiety, mania and psychotic episodes.
"The agitation and anxiety, which is clinically described as akathisia, may reach “unbearable” levels, and akathisia is known to be associated with suicide and acts of violence, including homicide.