Alcohol and mental health
Information, Guidance and Advice. Helping Build a Healthier Lifestyle. How do you use alcohol? Mental health problems and drinking alcohol often go together. For some…
Category: Depression
Improving the lives of people who self-harm
This leaflet is for anyone who wants to understand self-harm. It will be useful if you are harming yourself, or feel that you might do…
Hydro-ease Trauma Blog
When trauma hangs around When are you your real age? And when are you your emotional age? It can be sometimes hard to hear ..…
Patient Fact Sheet: Treating Depression in Adults with TMS
What is the Recommended Treatment for Depression? NHS Choices states that if you have depression that is not improving your GP should in the first…
Aces and Epigenetic’s | The story told through our genes
What is Epigenetics? Each cell in our body contains 24,000 or so genes that make us who we are 1. The genes in our cells…
Exploring young peoples awareness of mental health in Northern Ireland
More than 20% of young people here are suffering ‘significant mental health problems’ by the time they reach 18. We’re a group of nine young…
The epidemiology of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder in a representative cohort of young people in England and Wales
Despite the emphasis placed on childhood trauma in psychiatry, comparatively little is known about the epidemiology of trauma and trauma-related psychopathology in young people. We…
Appeasement: replacing Stockholm syndrome as a definition of a survival strategy
Stockholm syndrome or traumatic bonding (Painter & Dutton, Patterns of emotional bonding in battered women: Traumatic bonding. International Journal of Women’s Studies, 8(4), 363–375, 1985)…
Adversity History Predicts Self-Reported Autonomic Reactivity and Mental Health in US Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The spread of the COVID-19 virus presents an unprecedented event that rapidly introduced widespread life threat, economic destabilization, and social isolation. The human nervous system…
Increased Autonomic Reactivity and Mental Health Difficulties in COVID-19 Survivors: Implications for Medical Providers
Because there is a relationship between mental health (MH) and medical adversity and autonomic dysregulation, we hypothesized that individuals infected with COVID-19 would report greater…
