When it’s Children's Mental Health Week, it’s ironic that attention isn’t actually focused on children’s mental health. Instead the focus is on mental illness and the host of psychiatric ‘disorders’ being used to label various aspects of childhood. It would be more accurate to call it children's mental illness week. Rather than…
The England-wide NHS prescription data for the full year 2022 has been released. So, what were the results for 2022? Antidepressants marked their usual steady rise at 3.3%, which is not much different than the last 15 years. Drugs used in psychoses remained relatively flat. Drugs for hypnotics and anxiolytics even showed…
It’s ironic that in Children's Mental Health Week, psychiatrists focus on mental illness, not mental health. In fact, they rarely focus on mental health. There's no profit in mental wellness. Psychiatrists are in the habit of labelling children with various so-called psychiatric conditions such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Conduct…
Psychiatrists are keen to be considered on a par with medical professionals. Their practice however of redefining regular life problems and idiosyncrasies as so-called 'mental disorders' has resulted in psychiatrists and their profession being held up to ridicule. Mental health 'experts' scrutinise, debate and pontificate over human behaviours, before voting on which…
It’s the time of year when children might demonstrate behaviour that cause psychiatrists to reach for their prescription pads. Some children might have difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities; they might lose things necessary for tasks or activities, they might get easily distracted, have difficulty playing or engaging in leisure…
There has been a lot of coverage recently addressing mental health and sport. As well as the amazing triumphs, the Olympics was an event that brought to light the stresses of competition, the gruelling routines as well as the constant public pressures and expectations to win. There’s no doubt that athletes face many…
Questions are often posed about the difficulties associated with diagnosing psychiatric 'disorders.' It was recently asked