Beating Depression
I got an email from a client last Friday that gave me great joy. When she first signed on as a client with me a year ago, she was a mess. She was on medication for chronic depression, she hated her job, her family was neglected and she completely lost any sense of focus and direction’¦ and that was just the start’¦ over the last year we have seen some big changes in her life, but this email shows me that it has all been worthwhile. In part, she said: ‘I’ve made sure that I’ve left work on time (unfortunately...
read moreTeenage mental health and depression
I’ve seen a lot in the media about teenage depression lately and it has caused me to again think about this difficult issue. Most of the stories, like this one in the Australian, ‘Depressed Children Not being Diagnosed‘ result from recent activity by BeyondBlue promoting their draft Clinical Practice Guidelines on Depression in Adolescents and Young Adults. I think there is some very good information in the guidelines but I wonder if the term ‘mental health’ is the most appropriate for this subject? Would it help...
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