“Politicians and Experts Meet at Parliament to Explore Record Antidepressant Prescribing and Disability”
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence is meeting today, May 11th, to discuss evidence of the link between the rise in disability...
“How Should You Grieve?”
Andrea Volpe, for Mosaic Science, explores the condition of complicated grief and how new approaches to therapy are treating it.
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“Sweat is the Best Antidepressant”
The University of Toronto recently opened a Mental Health and Physical Activity Research Centre to work with individual students, and to study the link...
“Mindfulness at Risk of Being ‘Turned into a Free Market Commodity’”
The Guardian reports growing concerns from the Buddhist Society conference: “Jon Kabat-Zinn, who created the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine at the University of Massachusetts medical school, warned last week that some people feared a ‘sort of superficial ‘McMindfulness’ is taking over, which ignores the ethical foundations of the meditative practices and traditions from which mindfulness has emerged, and divorces it from its profoundly transformative potential.’”
Women are Flocking to Wellness due to Sexism in Healthcare
From Quartz: Seeking healthcare in the medical system can be a dehumanizing experience for women: doctors often dismiss women's pain as psychological rather than physiological, and...
