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Doctor & Patient

WebSo much of psychiatry is opinion. While there can be general agreement that something is amiss with an individual, sometimes gravely so, there can also be a lot of …

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Is mental illness the same as physical illness

WebThe question of whether mental illness is caused by biology, or by life’s traumas is not particularly difficult to answer – surely it must be both. An unusually wired …

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Can a psychiatrist be a real doctor

WebThis is a question that is asked seriously by some, and tongue in cheek by others (usually other doctors). Yet we too go through the slog of medical school, followed …

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Disempowerment in mental illness

WebThe idea that a psychiatrist could feel disempowered by mental illness may well seem ridiculous. Even when that psychiatrist is also a psychiatric patient, the notion …

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What is psychiatry becoming

WebWhat is psychiatry becoming? This is a difficult post to write, and is probably a reflection of many things – my own illness and return to work, the challenges of trying …

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What if psychiatry is wrong

WebThere is a power imbalance in psychiatry, which is acute as a patient. Unlike any other condition, you face unbelief, and you face being awarded a range of …

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Remission or recovery

WebThe cost of their recovery is that they need to continue achieving it, they will always be just on the other side of the door of recovery. The use of language gives hope, …

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My family, my illness and me

WebMy family never ask about my mental illness. They never ask how I am, whether I take medication, whether it works. I’ve no idea why, because I don’t ask them …

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Stories of illness

WebI’ve wondered recently why we, as doctors and other health professionals, choose to tell our own stories of illness. You would think that we would want to swerve …

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Boredom and depression

WebThere are many unbearable aspects to depression, and sometimes it seems that the words available just won’t do – awful, terrible, crushing.There are many more. …

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The difficult diagnosis of personality disorder

WebIt may include feelings, notably emotional instability, but this is often assumed from behaviour. We all behave in different ways at different times – many of us will have …

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Thoughts about confidentiality

WebThoughts about confidentiality. When I looked up the meaning of the word confidential just now, it stated that it was information that was intended to be kept secret. …

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The worried doctor

WebI think I have always experienced anxiety. Not all the time, in that I’m not always anxious, but it has always lurked in the background, waiting to spoil things. I don’t …

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Love & relationships

WebCasting myself as the mentally ill patient who is hence undeserving of love is in itself profoundly stigmatising. I think I am less confident than him overall, but mental …

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