by Simon_Bates | Jan 18, 2018 | Antidepressants/Meds, Anxiety, Depression, Uncategorized
Modern Psychiatry Is Losing Its Way Every month or so I get enquiries from a potential client who’s clearly been through the medical/psychiatric pathway of care and my heart sinks. This week I had a client who insisted I read his psychiatrist’s notes on...
by Simon_Bates | Jan 4, 2018 | Addiction/Drugs/Alcohol, Anxiety, Depression, Panic Attacks, PTSD
This post is inspired by the very emotional programme about male rape shown on the BBC in December 2017. It covers the stories of a number of victims of male rape and how it affected them and continues to do so. The programme included the estimates that one in six men...
by Simon_Bates | Nov 25, 2017 | Addiction/Drugs/Alcohol, Antidepressants/Meds, Anxiety, Character, Depression, PTSD, Sleep/Insomnia
Nobody could have been left unmoved by the revelations of retired football players this month. First a lone footballer speaks out about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child from a coach, then the floodgates opened up as we realise the extent of the abuse for the...
by Simon_Bates | Nov 20, 2014 | Anxiety, Health
This week the prestigious Dean Street sexual health clinic mistakenly released the names and email addresses of nearly 800 of its HIV clients. Guardian – London Clinic Mistakenly Releases HIV Email List Whilst there are a number of fearless individuals who are...
by Simon_Bates | Sep 10, 2014 | Addiction/Drugs/Alcohol, Anxiety, Character, Depression
There’s a disproportionate number of young gay men committing suicide. Very disproportionate. If the figures from Stonewall’s 2011 study of gay and bisexual men is to be believed 27% of gay and 38% of bisexual men said they had considered taking their own life in the...
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