Mental Health Awareness week
Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 (14th-20th May) Blue Tree intern Maddy Lykourgos promotes Mental Health Awareness Week… This year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is stress and how we…
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Anti-depressants: Facts v fiction – should you take them?
Last summer, Heidi Scrimgeour joined the tens of thousands of Britons who are on anti-depressant medication. A combination of factors – family concerns, work, being given notice on a rented…
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Our Psychiatrist’s Column on Anti-Depressants Study in the news last week
As a consultant psychiatrist I have received a tonne of emails and messages in the past week about the news relating to the Lancet’s publication of the meta-analysis of 522 randomised control trials…
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The psychological impact of being robbed
Blue Tree intern Maddy Lykourgos discusses the impact of crimes such as burglary Breaking news stories exhibiting criminal activity continue to percolate all media making us feel unsettled at the…
Read MorePersonality Disorders
Personality Disorder (PD) The term ‘personality’ reflects an individual’s set of characteristics that determine how they behave, think and feel. For those affected with PD, it can affect the way…
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New Year’s Resolutions
Why Can’t I Keep My New Year’s Resolution? Blue Tree intern and aspiring psychologist Maddy Lykourgos describes the pressures of a new year and the dreaded resolutions Happy New Year…
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Hearing Voices
Blue Tree intern and aspiring psychologist Maddy Lykourgos discusses hearing voices Hearing voices is often the term used for hearing speech or sounds that no one else present can hear.…
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) Blue Tree intern and aspiring psychologist Maddy Lykourgos outlines CFS As the days are getting shorter, it seems like there’s more to do in a…
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Stress Of The Holiday Period
Blue Tree intern and aspiring psychologist Maddy Lykourgos describes the increasing pressure that comes with the Holiday period… Christmas adverts have aired, decorations and lights have gone up and the…
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Anxiety Around Fireworks?
The Bluetree Clinic’s 2017 intern, Maddy Lykourgos discusses the recent controversy over banning fireworks. Should we be banning Fireworks? With Guy Fawkes Night approaching, the petitions against the use of…
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