Accepting that you are ready for your life to change and to seek support is the crucial first step on the road to recovery. If you’re in this position, one of the hardest steps has already been taken. It can be a complex process to understand the different treatment modalities available, so here we’re looking …
CBT is a leading therapy for eating disorders, offering consistent high success rates across different types of disorders. CBT can help clients to address the underlying psychopathology that drives their eating behaviours whilst developing strategies and healthy eating habits that support long-term recovery. What Is An Eating Disorder? An eating disorder is when you have …
Executive burnout refers to the work-related stress corporate executives, industry leaders, and professionals in high-level positions often experience. Working in a position with a great deal of responsibility and pressure can cause emotional exhaustion. Inadequate support and resources to handle workload are noted as key risk factors for job burnout. Job burnout has three dimensions: …
Suicide is the most prevalent cause of death worldwide. It is on the extreme point of the suicidal spectrum of suicidal thoughts and behaviours. This spectrum ranges from risk-taking personality to different degrees of suicidal acts and even complete suicide. It has been long debated upon that suicide is a sudden act of vulnerability, but on a deeper level of analysis, it is long-considered ideation based upon hopelessness and collective unfortunate circumstances
Mental health illnesses have been a major cause behind preventable deaths and disease burden in the world. Specifically in the United Kingdom, 16% of the population goes through mental illnesses such as major depressive disorder, suicidal behaviours, alcohol and drug abuse and anxiety. There is a growing number of people who have mixed anxiety and depression, coming around 7% in the young population.
Alcohol use disorder is said to be lessened in the later age population but there is a growing statistic for older adults. As we grow old, many stressful life events can make us vulnerable, such as the death of a loved one, divorce or separation, lack of physical mobility, lifestyle illnesses and retirement liabilities.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that hinders the behavioural and communicative aspect of an individual. Though it is being diagnosed at any age, its symptoms show most in the first two years.
Mental health illnesses often require some kind of medication to relieve the symptoms. Now those medicinal drugs can be misused or abused by the affected person. Before knowing about the co-occurrence of substance misuse, let us understand the difference between substance misuse and abuse is.
‘Smart’ drugs, more accurately referred to as nootropics, are a growing global market. By 2017, the global nootropic market was estimated at around 1,234 million USD, according to a report published by Zion Market Research
The use of alcohol and other drugs is prevalent in the UK and worldwide. Addiction is a severe illness that impacts hundreds of thousands of people every year. According to The National Drug Treatment Monitoring System, there were almost 270,000 UK adults in contact with addiction treatment services between 2017 and 2018
This blog will explore the physical effects of trauma on the brain and how it impacts the realities and perceptions of trauma survivors.
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