The man wrongly convicted of murdering Jill Dando has praised Line of Duty for highlighting what the police do after a Down s Syndrome suspect was branded a local oddball .
Barry George, who spent eight years in jail for Ms Dando s murder in 1999 before he was finally acquitted in 2008, commended the show s writers after Down s Syndrome character Terry Boyle was given the label by an officer.
It comes after the show s writer Jed Mercurio said the term oddball had been a reference to what Mr George had thought the police perceived him as after being cleared of killing the former Crimewatch presenter.
Department of Economics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Adolescents are slowly being recognized as a generation, worldwide, that may require different policy approaches to improve staggering statistics on their failing well-being, including mental health. By providing the support to allow the next generation to achieve better mental health outcomes, they are going to be more economically successful and the future economic growth of nations can be better assured. Adoption of mobile-based health interventions (e.g., mHealth) has garnered a lot of attention toward this end. While mHealth interventions are growing in popularity, many researchers/policy-makers appear to have neglected assessing potential (indirect) costs/negative consequences from their use. Evidence from the developed world shows strong associations between extensive cell phone use and negative mental health outcomes, but similar research is minimal in developing world contexts. Additionally, t
One mother who spoke to the Guardian said her child had been having treatment through children’s mental health services since January 2019. “The first lockdown had a big impact on treatment at that time, delaying home interactions. We were lucky, though, as she was one of four out of 12 who were not immediately sent home when lockdown started due to concerns over staffing levels.”
She added: “Since summer 2020, she has been home but relapsing. In November she stopped eating or drinking entirely and was admitted to a general hospital. This is no place for an eating disorder patient to be long term – there is not the mental health support needed.”
The Four Research Papers I Wish My Doctor Had Read Before Prescribing an Antidepressant
April 22, 2021
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BJGP Life: “In 1996, when I was prescribed an antidepressant, there was already published research that showed SSRIs caused withdrawal effects. However, at that time, the
Defeat Depression campaign had successfully created a narrative adopted by most prescribers, in which anxiety or depression were described to the patient as caused by a ‘chemical imbalance in the brain’ and that SSRIs were safe, effective and non-addictive. Why would a doctor feel the need to do a full literature review?
Today the word is out that my experience of attempting repeatedly to stop taking the drug and experiencing increasingly severe withdrawal effects is by no means uncommon. We now know a drug can cause dependence without causing addiction. Dependence is simply the physiological consequence of taking a drug which causes the body (especially the brain and central nervous system) to
The UK has one of the highest rates of antidepressant use in the world.
In England about 17% of the adult population had a prescription for an antidepressant in 2017/18 – about 7.3 million people.
Academics performed an overview of research into the topic and found that while there are hundreds of studies on people starting treatment with antidepressants, there are just 33 randomised control trials which examined stopping them.
The Cochrane review of antidepressant discontinuation examined the studies to try to assess which method is best to help patients stop taking the medication.
A number of methods were studied, including stopping medication abruptly, gradually stopping the drugs over several weeks – also known as tapering – and in some studies psychological support was offered as patients discontinued their medicine.