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Posts tagged with 'depression'

Reducing risk of suicide: advice & resources for relatives, friends, health professionals & those at risk

5th January 2013

The "Connecting with People" website has the strapline "Promoting emotional resilience & suicide mitigation". On the site's "About us" page, they write "Open Minds Alliance CIC was formally established in 2010. The organisation emerged from a collaboration between Dr Alys Cole-King, liaison psychiatrist and specialist in suicide prevention and Gavin …

Recent research: articles from December journals

3rd January 2013

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,900 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from November journals

10th December 2012

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,800 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Rumination: brooding, pondering, mindfulness, hypersensitivity, concreteness, writing - raising as many questions as answers

13th November 2012

Probably most cogntive-behavioural therapists subscribe to the general comment that rumination is a bad for depression. And it is, but as Oscar Wilde said "The truth is rarely pure and never simple". Smith & Alloy, in their 2009 paper "A roadmap to rumination: a review of the definition, assessment, and …

Recent research: articles from October journals

8th November 2012

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,600 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from September journals

11th October 2012

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,400 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

So what dietary advice should we be following - for psychological as well as physical health?

22nd September 2012

A couple of days ago I wrote a blog post that I think makes a very important point - "Emerging research on diet suggests it's startingly important in the prevention of anxiety & depression". Much of what the post said is downloadable in Powerpoint and can be printed out as …

Emerging research on diet suggests it's startlingly important in the prevention of anxiety & depression

20th September 2012

The key points of this blog post can be downloaded & printed out as a helpful 6-slide-miniatures-to-a-page Powerpoint handout. Back in December 2009 I wrote a blog post entitled "New research shows diet's importance for preventing depression" where I commented "You know how it is - no buses in sight, …

Recent research: articles from August journals

10th September 2012

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 18,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Seven recent research studies: folate & depression; grain, cancer & weight control; protein & increased cardiovascular disease

16th August 2012

It's been a while since I wrote a blog post on diet. However there is a good deal of accuracy in the comment "You are what you eat". This is definitely an area it's crucial to consider for improvements in stress, health & wellbeing. So in previous posts, I have …