“Honest” Placebos Effective in Treating Health Problems
From TIME: “The medical community has been aware of the placebo effect–the phenomenon in which a nontherapeutic treatment (like a sham pill) improves a...
Treating Children With Depression: How Will History Judge Us?
From The Conversation UK. Given the limited benefits and serious side effects, why have antidepressant prescriptions for young people risen so much? We don’t yet...
Manchester University Antipsychotic Discontinuation Survey
Manchester University is currently recruiting people to take part in a research study looking at what support people with experience of psychosis want when stopping antipsychotic medication.
Mental Health Crisis in Teens Magnified by Demise of Creative Subjects
From The Conversation UK. After the recent report by The Children’s Society that a quarter of 14-year-old girls have self-harmed, many campaigners have called for...
The Defeat Depression Campaign
From Hole Ousia. I was started on an SSRI antidepressant in the period not long after the “Defeat Depression Campaign,” in my case for “Social Anxiety...