Promoting awareness of the dangers of antidepressants
I discovered recently that I have a disorder. According to the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as DSM-5, I might even have two of them. Having studied summarised versions of Continue reading I have a disorder (or two)
According to the Times Educational Supplement last year, more teachers are killing themselves – and many more suffering from mental illness – because of the combined stresses of classroom inspections, changing targets, ever-moving “goalposts” and increased workloads. Statistics showed that Continue reading Teachers, Stress and Antidepressants
Melanie Beswick (above) was 32 when she took a job as a finance officer at her local Citizens Advice Bureau in Portsmouth. She was married, with two young daughters, aged 4 and 7, and had been suffering from post-natal Continue reading Melanie, victim of a flawed system