Pharmaceutical drugs can do good – in some cases they are true lifesavers. But they can also cause harm. The Government’s National Overprescribing Review, launched in September 2021, estimated that at...
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Trawling articles about winter blues, medically called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or winter depression, I found opinions from psychiatrists saying the condition was a myth or hypochondria. Thes...
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What do you long for when you feel low? A hand to hold? A hug? An arm around you? For writer Rachel Kelly who has written about her own experiences of being engulfed by depression, one of the ways tha...
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Eczema is a beast. This inflammatory, dry skin condition, aka dermatitis, affects millions of people from babyhood to old age, causing unbearable, often constant itching that leads to ferocious scratc...
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We hadn’t seen each other for ten years but, as my dear friend Ben remarked, ‘it felt like no time at all’. He is an old friend both in age (84) and how long we’ve known each other – about 40 years. W...
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Click through to a site called Medical News Today and you might not expect to find an article headed ‘What to know about anxiety and drawing’. Unless, that is, you are one of the many millions of peop...
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