Archive for June, 2007

27 Jun

blooming good health

Nigel Lee writes for healthmatters - ‘Blooming good health’ Nige describes how the Ecoworks project in Nottingham aims at being

27 Jun

Bruce’s Effexor experience

Ta to Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons blog for the heads up on this article by Bruce Stutz in ‘The

27 Jun

Venlafaxine and NICE guidance amendments

The UKs National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) amended its depression and anxiety guidance on April 25th 2007. This was

27 Jun

gardeners are more caring…

Another writer’s take on why gardening is so great - it makes us ‘better’ people! Not better than others (!!!),

27 Jun

Green gyms

BTCV are running a scheme for people called a ‘green gym‘. They give people the chance to ‘work out’ in

27 Jun

‘Blooming good’ mental health therapy

Apologies for the cheesy title, any-one who reads this will know that my titles are much more sophisticated and considered

27 Jun

Gardening as a unique therapy

I came across this article  exploring the benefits of gardening for people with mental health ‘problems’ and thought it was a

27 Jun

Our dirty nails make us happy!

I was told the other day that GMTV ran a feature on Monday about the mood enhancing effects of soil.

27 Jun

Hotel for the mentalists

This post tells more about my experience of withdrawal from the antidepressant, Effexor, and my less than positive experiences in

27 Jun

Children and Psychiatric drugs

The Drugging of our Children  is a documentary film highlighting the increasing pathologisation of child-hood and the use of psychotropic