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States of Mind
The shyness continuum
Shyness is something many people experience as adults as well as during childhood. Most of us probably feel somewhat unsettled when we meet new people or are...
Smoking and psychiatric illness
Some of you might be wondering exactly what smoking has to do with psychiatric illness or mental health at all. You’re not alone this topic has not been...
Overlap between disorders
One of the difficulties in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness is the fairly common occurrence of more than one disorder at the same time in the same...
Alcohol abuse and psychiatric illness
Since we’ve recently been covering topics involving the effects of substance use on psychiatric conditions, I thought I would complete the series this week by...
Borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder is a difficult condition with many faces. Angry outbursts, unstable relationships and mood swings could describe symptoms of...
Hallucinations and Delusions
Hallucinations and delusions are the first things many people imagine when they hear about mental illness. They think of people who hear voices, see imaginary...
Clinical Trials
Importance of clinical trials to psychiatry and all medicine In this age of fast advancing technology and almost-daily medical discoveries, researching new...
The Powerful Placebo
Medical knowledge and treatments have advanced more quickly in the last 50 years than ever before, but the powerful effects of placebo treatments are still...
Childhood Abuse
Childhood abuse linked to depression, anxiety in later life. We have established that nature and nurture should not be regarded as enemies or polar opposites,...
Mood Swings
Bipolar disorder? Many of us have a friend or family member we wonder about who seems to shift unpredictably from one mood to another. Often, we worry or are in...
The Role of Genetics in Psychiatry
- Nature or Nurture? Nature has been pitted against nurture for centuries. People have always pondered the question of whether human behaviour is primarily...
The Stigma of Mental Illness
Getting treatment for a mental illness is often a lot more difficult than simply calling up your doctor and making an appointment. For many people it involves a...
Psychiatry 101 – Battling myths and stereotypes
It seems that practically every person who comes in for treatment has a different idea of what constitutes psychiatry and what they should expect when seeing a...
