Bluetree Blog

Bluetree Blog

Personality 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 they develop both their relationship with others and themselves. It can be extremely difficult to change...
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New Year’s Resolutions

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 from your team here at The Blue Tree Clinic! It’s that time of year again, once the festivities are over and the...
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Hearing Voices

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. This type of auditory hallucination can be distracting, confusing and particularly distressing. Contrastingly, it...
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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 shorter space of time. Waking up and coming home in the dark confuses our minds into thinking we should be in bed...
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Stress Of The Holiday Period

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 festive markets are scheduled to arrive on our streets at any given momentand it’s still...
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Anxiety Around Fireworks?

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 fireworks are fast increasing. This controversy, although not new, has recently been the...
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Podcast – Conversation On Taking Psychiatric Medications

The Benefits of Taking Medications (Arguments For and Against) One of our client's requested we talk about medication in today's podcast. Charlotte Turner (Clinic Manager and Nutrionist) and Dr Mark Silvert discuss this interesting topic, talking about personal experiences, and research. Listen here...
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Coping with Stress at Work

Coping with Stress at Work

Stress and coping at work? Top tips Bluetree intern and aspiring psychologist Maddy Lykourgos runs through how to cope with work stress...
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10 Mind Changing Facts About Eating Disorders-1

10 Mind Changing Facts About Eating Disorders

Dr Silvert , our founder and expert psychiatrist, is featured in Healthy Magazine. Read about the 10 fascinating facts you didn't know about eating disorders;...
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The rising fear in the wake of the terror attacks

The rising fear in the wake of the terror attacks

In modern day society people can be fearful of many different things. Unfortunately in the last few years something which has drastically increased is terror attacks. A terror attack is the use of extreme violence against other human beings...
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