Mad World
Examining the policies, decisions and events affecting the lives of people with mental health problems around the world
Archives
- 2008.10.13: Mental health services in England, the credit crunch and depression
- 2008.10.10: World mental health day, addiction, and transcranial magnetic stimulation
- 2008.10.08: Mental health stigma at work, hearing voices and Scotland
- 2008.10.07: Dementia patients, stigma and reality
- 2008.10.06: Overcoming fear and soothing music
- 2008.10.01: Long term psychotherapy does work, as does eye-wiggling
- 2008.09.29: Mental health act, practice and real holidays
- 2008.09.26: Mad World has been on holiday
- 2008.08.29: Truman Show syndrome, Prozac and CBT
- 2008.08.27: UFOs, psychiatrists and schizophrenia
- 2008.08.26: Michael Phelps, ADHD and the mental health system
- 2008.08.21: Computer use, inpatient care and the private sector efficiency myth
- 2008.08.20: Stress, depression, animals and anxiety
- 2008.08.18: Daily Mail in positive social work story shock
- 2008.08.15: Work, therapy and persecution
- 2008.08.14: Psychotherapy, drugs and the Daily Mail
- 2008.08.13: Building a social work blog community
- 2008.08.12: Hallucinogens, benefits and the internet
- 2008.08.11: Lions, knife-wielding kids and Merthyr Tydfil
- 2008.08.08: Mental health and six sigma
- 2008.08.07: Mental health, Olympic spirit and the Mahdi Army
- 2008.08.06: US psychiatry, drug companies and jazz misfits
- 2008.08.05: Happiness, recession, psychotherapy and my bike
- 2008.08.04: Mental health and visualisation
- 2008.08.01: Crisis, violence, institutional racism and mental health
- 2008.07.31: Mental health film festival and vagabonds
- 2008.07.29: Mental health films and happiness philosophy
- 2008.07.18: Mad World is on holiday
- 2008.07.15: Antidepressants, children and safety
- 2008.07.14: Self harm, narcissists and doormats
- 2008.07.14: Self harm, narcissists and doormats
- 2008.07.11: Henderson hospital campaign latest
- 2008.07.10: UK Centre for mental health, video games and booze
- 2008.07.08: Schizophrenia book
- 2008.07.02: Fair Deal manifesto, skunk and depressing Wednesdays
- 2008.07.01: Henderson hospital, Dinesh Bhugra and acting
- 2008.06.30: Our NHS, our future: mental health perspective on Lord Darzi's review
- 2008.06.27: Medicalisation and mental health
- 2008.06.24: Stuttering and happiness
- 2008.06.23: On feeling trapped
- 2008.06.23: Ruby Wax, depression and mobile phone masts
- 2008.06.18: Depression, diabetes and cannabis
- 2008.06.17: Mobile phone madness
- 2008.06.16: Iris Robinson, vitamin D and working your hours
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- 2008.06.12: ADHD, depression and drugs
- 2008.06.11: Mindfulness and St John's Wort
- 2008.06.10: Political blogging and children on drugs
- 2008.06.05: Smoking in locked mental health wards - court judgement
- 2008.06.02: Is schizophrenia a real condition?
- 2008.05.30: Postnatal depression, masculinity and recovery
- 2008.05.29: Meditation, ADHD and computer games
- 2008.05.28: King's Fund, dementia, tax rises, ECT and placebos
- 2008.05.23: The gadget approach to mental health
- 2008.05.21: Edwyn Collins: Home Again
- 2008.05.19: Autism and insecticides
- 2008.05.19: What do you think of ECT?
- 2008.05.15: Thinking allowed: hearing voices
- 2008.05.08: Cannabis reclassification
- 2008.05.08: Am I Normal: Spirituality
- 2008.05.07: Psychiatry handbook and the drugs industry
- 2008.05.06: BBC psychology tests, vitamin D and the CIA
- 2008.04.29: Happiness, money and computer consoles
- 2008.04.25: Anti-addiction pills, autism, smoking and depression
- 2008.04.24: Electromagnetism and mental health
- 2008.04.24: Gordon Brown and the 10p tax rate
- 2008.04.23: Henderson Hospital to close today
- 2008.04.22: Chemistry of Addiction
- 2008.04.17: Am I normal
- 2008.04.16: Henderson Hospital update
- 2008.04.15: Below the belt
- 2008.04.15: World Social Work Day: Countdown to party
- 2008.04.14: How much progress have psychiatry and psychology made?
- 2008.04.11: Housework, animals and mental health
- 2008.04.09: Stabbed social worker Philip Ellison
- 2008.04.07: Drugs, group therapy and AA Gill
- 2008.04.04: New social care podcast
- 2008.04.03: Should former service users work in social care
- 2008.04.02: Online gaming and violence
- 2008.04.01: Meditation and mental health
- 2008.04.01: Do you believe in nomophobia?
- 2008.03.31: Climate change and mental health
- 2008.03.28: Mental health research, lists and depression
- 2008.03.27: Anger, computer games and mental health
- 2008.03.27: Horizon: How memory works
- 2008.03.26: Mental baggage
- 2008.03.25: Alternative therapies and mental health, part 2
- 2008.03.20: Sex, football and mental health
- 2008.03.19: Internet addiction as mental illness
- 2008.03.18: Mental health and alternative therapies
- 2008.03.17: Madness and Tony Blair
- 2008.03.14: What makes good mental health?
- 2008.03.13: Antidepressants - the state of play
- 2008.03.12: Metapsychology and psychotherapy in India
- 2008.03.11: Pledging allegiance to the queen: Should ministers be sectioned?
- 2008.03.10: Sicknote Britain and horses
- 2008.03.07: Mental health sketch
- 2008.03.06: Seroxat company criticised
- 2008.03.05: Antidepressants debate continues
- 2008.03.04: Psychotropic medication: good or bad?
- 2008.03.03: Bye bye antidepressants, hello online therapy
- 2008.02.29: Mental health, capitalism and genes
- 2008.02.28: Antidepressant research: the responses
- 2008.02.27: Spending must shift from antidepressants to talking therapy
- 2008.02.26: Antidepressants no better than placebo
- 2008.02.25: Media coverage of mental health
- 2008.02.19: J G Ballard’s mental dystopia
- 2008.02.11: Prozac nation - the follow up
- 2008.02.08: Britain: A prozac nation?
- 2008.02.07: Wonderland: personality disorder services
- 2008.02.06: Wonderland: The madness of dancing
- 2008.02.04: Women and mental health
- 2008.01.31: Mental Health Act Commission must continue
- 2008.01.28: ODD: teenagers drugged for answering back?
- 2008.01.24: Is the Britney issue bad for mental health?
- 2008.01.23: Mental health in the news
- 2008.01.22: Politicians with mental health problems: Are we ready?
- 2008.01.21: Futile happiness and Britney
- 2008.01.18: Psychiatric patient problems
- 2008.01.17: Antidepressants: unfavourable studies not reported
- 2008.01.17: Do You Have Affluenza?
- 2008.01.16: Lobotomies and cages
- 2008.01.16: Henderson hospital: latest campaign news
- 2008.01.15: Henderson Hospital campaign
- 2008.01.14: Henderson hospital legal challenge
- 2008.01.11: Mental health: Two chances to have your say
- 2008.01.10: Henderson hospital - government comment
- 2008.01.10: Britney and mental health
- 2008.01.09: Britney Spears: The media's response is wrong
- 2008.01.09: Happiness: we don't know what we're doing
- 2008.01.08: Why laziness is good
- 2008.01.07: Henderson Hospital closure - a sad day for service users
- 2008.01.04: Best interests beats human rights!
- 2007.12.21: Review of diminished responsibility defence
- 2007.12.18: Christmas mental health tips from the interweb
- 2007.12.17: Henderson Hospital in Surrey to close
- 2007.12.14: Mental illness costs employers £25bn
- 2007.12.13: Hairdressers tackle suicide
- 2007.12.12: Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy
- 2007.12.10: Psychologists target children with consumerism
- 2007.12.07: National Audit Office: crisis resolution home treatment
- 2007.12.06: Count me in census 2007
- 2007.12.04: Seeing the positive side of mental health and the negative side of Republicans
- 2007.12.04: The Stanford Prison experiment and evil
- 2007.12.03: Panorama: Dementia and anti-psychotics
- 2007.11.30: Is Freud history?
- 2007.11.28: New support to help people with mental health problems at work
- 2007.11.23: A complex mental health web
- 2007.11.21: Maudsley to close
- 2007.11.20: How serious is internet addiction?
- 2007.11.19: Is public nakedness a mental illness?
- 2007.11.15: Does hearing voices make you mad?
- 2007.11.14: ADHD support and new research
- 2007.11.13: Panorama ADHD follow up
- 2007.11.12: Panorama: ADHD drugs and children
- 2007.11.09: The power of meditation
- 2007.11.08: Exercise, music and depression
- 2007.11.07: The Manchester strike
- 2007.11.06: Pathologising shyness
- 2007.11.05: A hug a day keeps the doctor away
- 2007.11.02: Depression in older people and early intervention for children
- 2007.11.01: Psychology v Psychiatry
- 2007.10.31: How to be happy
- 2007.10.26: Chocolate: Resistance is futile
- 2007.10.24: Can Larry David help people with schizophrenia
- 2007.10.23: Can psychotherapy treat unexplained physical symptoms?
- 2007.10.22: Borderline personality disorder and cannabis
- 2007.10.16: Mental health courts
- 2007.10.15: The big CBT debate
- 2007.10.09: World Mental Health Day
- 2007.10.08: Lessons, meditation and SSRIs
- 2007.10.08: Pre-school children on psychiatric drugs
- 2007.10.05: Does life make you depressed?
- 2007.10.05: What type of brain do you have?
- 2007.10.04: Alternative medicine and mental health
- 2007.10.03: Mental health wards
- 2007.10.02: CBT and suicide
- 2007.10.01: How parents should react
- 2007.10.01: TV, screening, city life and climate change
- 2007.09.28: Migraine, abuse and chemical imbalance theories
- 2007.09.27: ADHD and drug prescription
- 2007.09.26: Why am I so lazy?
- 2007.09.25: Probes and television
- 2007.09.24: Mental health screening for young people?
- 2007.09.21: Psychiatry and sexuality
- 2007.09.20: Can you hear the ringing?
- 2007.09.19: Mental health blog updates
- 2007.09.19: Do art feel healthy
- 2007.09.18: Narcissism: is it an illness?
- 2007.09.17: De-medicalising misery
- 2007.09.13: Depression: the biological imbalance myth?
- 2007.09.12: We should teach happiness
- 2007.09.11: Daydreaming and positive psychology
- 2007.09.10: What's the future for psychoanalysis?
- 2007.09.10: Library books and incarceration
- 2007.09.07: Mental health: is the tide turning?
- 2007.09.06: Ban the additives
- 2007.09.05: Is there a genetic reason for schizophrenia
- 2007.09.05: Mental health and happiness
- 2007.09.04: Mental health in the developing world
- 2007.09.03: Social phobia, guns and depression
- 2007.08.31: Electrocute them until they behave
- 2007.08.31: Veterans and mental health
- 2007.08.30: Brain infection
- 2007.08.30: Mental health courts
- 2007.08.29: A Japanese perspective
- 2007.08.29: Everything begins with choice
- 2007.08.28: Nasa, schizophrenia and triggers
- 2007.08.24: Rising damp
- 2007.08.24: Reducing bipolar relapse
- 2007.08.23: A list bonanza
- 2007.08.23: OCD mice and philosophy
- 2007.08.22: Vagus Nerve Stimulation
- 2007.08.22: Treating ADHD without drugs
- 2007.08.22: The psychology of torture
- 2007.08.21: Keep that positive thing going
- 2007.08.21: Child mental health
- 2007.08.20: Time to hibernate
- 2007.08.20: What is the job of a psychologist?
- 2007.08.17: Stigma and depression research
- 2007.08.17: Psychologists, torture and depression
- 2007.08.16: Oily fish and foster families
- 2007.08.16: Give a little respect
- 2007.08.15: Madness and creativity
- 2007.08.15: The psychology of money
- 2007.08.14: IQ, negative attitudes and borderline personality disorder
- 2007.08.14: Cool cops
- 2007.08.13: Accentuate the positive
- 2007.08.10: Returning troops must not be thrown on the bonfire
- 2007.08.08: Keep those neural pathways buff
- 2007.08.07: Dementia's moment in the sun
- 2007.08.06: Time lord
- 2007.08.03: Wake up and see the trauma
- 2007.08.02: Stress and the mighty mice
- 2007.08.01: Fear the heat
- 2007.07.31: Hot coffee and spliffs
- 2007.07.30: Get happy quick
- 2007.07.27: Up in Smoke
- 2007.07.20: LSD, TB and CBT
- 2007.07.19: Sex, booze and fighting
- 2007.07.18: From Vanity Fair to the Priory
- 2007.07.17: I love lists
- 2007.07.16: I have seen the future and it comes in the form of a nasal spray
- 2007.07.13: The joy of forgetting
- 2007.07.12: Privatisation and feuding; but don't feel negative
- 2007.07.11: Is your brain a computer?
- 2007.07.09: A right to fresh air and not to stigma
- 2007.07.06: The mental health bill - the end.
- 2007.07.04: The joy of work
- 2007.07.02: Pregnancy, Norway and Kent: compare and contrast
- 2007.06.29: Reconciliation in New Zealand
- 2007.06.28: Video games, pregnancy and the pentagon
- 2007.06.27: Use your loaf
- 2007.06.26: Video games on the moon and sugar in the brain
- 2007.06.12: Make love not war
- 2007.06.07: All quiet on the western front
- 2007.06.05: Of war and racism and early adulthood
- 2007.05.30: Bowels, Barack and the World Bank
- 2007.05.23: Racism in mental health and the benefits of treating depression
- 2007.05.21: Dancing the labyrinth, featuring Russell Crowe
- 2007.05.14: TV, paperwork and daisies
- 2007.05.09: Welcome to Mad World