Depression
How new digital technology is helping young people to cope with mental illnesses
Mental illness can be your very worst companion. It might keep you in your bed all day, coiling round you with its tight embrace and soft whispers, “Stay here. The morning’s past and you’ll never manage anyway. You can try again tomorrow but today’s already lost.” When bedtime beckons, you might not sleep. Your illness bothers you with its tears and its worries or its silence until morning returns.
By Mei Leng Yew | Bytesize, Digital Digest | Tuesday, 12 March 2013 at 3:19 pm
Living with postnatal depression: ‘I felt terrified of motherhood and had no love for my baby’
Depression – I never believed in this word, especially not postnatal depression, how could anyone be depressed when they have a wonderful new baby, I thought?
By Liz Wise | Health, Notebook, Science & Technology | Friday, 21 December 2012 at 1:49 pm
The Army of Angels: War wounds aren’t necessarily physical
My name is Stephen Valentine and I was born in November 1969. At the age of 18, I decided to enlist in the British Army as a driver in the Royal Corps of Transport (RCT). I completed my basic training in February 1988 and was then posted to eight Squadron, 27 Regiment RCT, at Buller Barracks in Aldershot.
By Steve Valentine | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 4:21 pm
Dr Norman Rosenthal: ‘After all, who wants to prescribe a 10-year-old with Prozac?’
Dr Norman Rosenthal is used to looking outside the box for answers to conditions such as seasonal affective disorder and post-traumatic stress. His work has sometimes put him at odds with a largely conservative medical establishment who forget that many of today’s procedures were themselves questioned in the past.
By Steve Watkins | Health, Notebook | Monday, 22 October 2012 at 1:27 pm
World Mental Health Day: Defeating the dog called Depression
To coincide with World Mental Health Day, the World Health Organization have produced an animated video about depression. The short video by Matthew Johnstone, who has written, illustrated and narrated it, features a black dog which serves as a metaphor for the mental disorder.
By Neela Debnath | Health, Notebook | Tuesday, 9 October 2012 at 3:45 pm
Channel 4 Goes Mad (and maddens)
Channel 4’s Mental Health season, the controversially titled ‘4 Goes Mad’ kicked off last night with ‘Ruby Wax’s Mad Confessions’.
By Ilona Burton | Arts, Health, Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 11:32 am
Are there mental tools that can help alleviate mental illness?
What could trigger the Twitter tribute “Unbelievably brave. Kevan Jones MP is a hero!” from a rival Conservative MP? Tory Louise Mensch was praising the Labour MP’s courageous decision to share his experience of depression in last week’s House of Commons debate on mental illness.
By Tony Lobl | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 21 June 2012 at 3:00 am
We have physical health and we have mental health – it’s time we saw them as equal
Members of parliament gathered in the House of Commons today to discuss something which has, for far too many years, been sidelined, overlooked and if acknowledged at all, treated with a certain level of complacency; mental health.
By Ilona Burton | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 15 June 2012 at 11:06 am
Is there a correlation between internet usage and depression?
A recent study at the Missouri University of Science and Technology found that students were more likely to use the internet, file-share and send emails when they were feeling blue – going as far to say it could be an indicator of depression.
By Jamie Lewis | Notebook, Opinion, Science & Technology | Monday, 21 May 2012 at 2:53 pm
Scotland’s 50p alcohol tax: Battling health with money
Scotland has elevated far beyond Theresa May’s 40p proclamation then, with an impetus to enforce a minimum 50p per unit levy on alcohol prices. Nicola Sturgeon’s arguments are less annoying than Theresa’s at least; if we were to hear yet another tirade of ‘pre-loading’ nonsense I fear for my health for entirely different reasons.
By Josh Barrie | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 16 May 2012 at 10:29 am
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