Sugar Addiction – How the White Stuff Gets You Addicted
Easter eggs, chocolate bunnies, hot cross buns – have you had your fill of sugar after Easter weekend? Or are you still craving more? Sugar addiction is one of the…
View ArticleMaternal Mental Health Matters – Let’s Break the Stigma around Perinatal...
Mums matter – that’s the theme for UK Maternal Mental Health Matters Awareness Week 2019. The aim is to raise awareness of mental illness in pregnancy and after childbirth, supporting…
View ArticleThe Connection between Bullying at Work and Substance Abuse
According to an NASUWT teaching union poll, 4 in 5 teachers say they have been bullied in the past year. 18% say they have used prescribed drugs and 17% have…
View ArticleBody Dysmorphic Disorder and Cosmetic Surgery Addiction – Mental Health...
Body image – this is the theme for Mental Health Awareness Week 2019 and it’s something that affects us all. How do you think and feel about your body? And…
View ArticleThe Jeremy Kyle Show Exposed the Pain of Addiction – Here’s the Solution to...
Following the death of a guest, ITV has axed The Jeremy Kyle Show – the daytime talk show that first aired in 2005. Over 14 years, The Jeremy Kyle Show…
View ArticleRocketman, Elton John, on Surviving Addiction and Living Sober
To mark the premiere of Rocketman at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, iconic artist Elton John has spoken to Variety, reflecting on his career, surviving addiction and living sober. Now…
View ArticleThe Binge-Watch Generation – Understanding Netflix Addiction and YouTube...
In August 2014, the term ‘binge-watch’ entered the Oxford online dictionary. It means to ‘watch multiple episodes of (a television programme) in rapid succession, typically by means of DVDs or…
View ArticlePride Month 2019 – Let’s Champion and Celebrate LGBT+ Addiction Recovery
June is Pride Month and this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising – widely seen as the defining moment of the modern LGBT+ rights movement. At Addiction…
View ArticleVideo Game Addiction – World Health Organisation Adopt ‘Gaming Disorder’ as...
After listing gaming disorder as a mental health condition in 2018, World Health Organisation members have now ratified video game addiction as an official disease. The news hit the gaming…
View Article‘Do I Want to Be a Hero to My Son?’ – Father’s Day Thoughts from Famous...
‘I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.’ So said Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Whether you agree with Freud…
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