As exam-season rolls around once again, the perennial problem of exam stress and its effect on the mental health of young people and those around them comes back into acute focus. As an education technology company, we work with over 100,000 students and their teachers in the run-up to exams. From my own experience of […]
· Mental health campaigner Hope Virgo visited Life Works Hospital in Woking, Surrey · Author of “Stand Tall Little Girl; facing anorexia” regularly shares positive updates and motivational posts about her recovery with thousands on Instagram · Hope has been in recovery from an eating disorder for over a decade · Life Works Director Steve […]
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Two leading Priory experts in mental health and bereavement counselling offer advice on getting through Christmas Everyone experiences the pain of bereavement, and the struggle to reconcile the conflicting emotions that comes with it; sadness, anger, frustration and even exhaustion are all normal. Acutely distressing feelings may lessen and change as time passes, but there […]
Priory consultant psychiatrist Dr Ian Nnatu, who is based at the Priory Hospital in North London and Priory’s Wellbeing Centres in Harley Street and Fenchurch Street in central London, has been named as one of the most influential people of African or African Caribbean heritage in the UK, in the annual Powerlist. The Powerlist 2020 […]
Compulsive Buying Disorder – or shopping addiction – is a damaging behaviour and remains the occasional rather than the norm. But increasing focus is being put on the inability to control spending impulses, partly due to new research in the journal Comprehensive Psychiatry suggesting it should be taken more seriously. Pamela Roberts, Addiction Therapy Manager […]
A comprehensive new report launched on Tuesday 26th November 2019 and commissioned by the charity Sarcoma UK reveals how this little-known and commonly misunderstood cancer has a devastating impact on its patients and their families, from diagnosis through to treatment. And yet, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by the charity, 75% of people “do […]
An “alarming’ number of working Mothers in the UK are silently suffering from psychological problems, a study suggests. A survey of 2,000 working mothers found 34% suffer unmanageable levels of anxiety and stress due to the pressure caused by taking care of children and having a job. Almost half (46%) experience severe anxiety when comparing […]
· Benefits can be seen in as little as 2 weeks · Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is non-invasive · Patients from abroad can access treatment lasting 2 weeks, avoiding lengthy stays in London · The Wellbeing Centre has successfully treated patients for depression using TMS · Drugs for depression don’t suit everyone, says Centre’s medical director […]
A number of recent cases suggest that sex reassignment surgeries remain the most controversial tool of gender transitioning due to their irreversibility. Therefore the surgeons of the leading cosmetic surgery center Nordesthetics clinic suggest gradual and mostly reversible transitioning to their transgender patients. The growing phenomenon of transgender detransitioning has hit the headlines recently. Although […]
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