The MindFields College Blog

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Just another plug for Ivan Tyrrell’s (Principal of MindFields College) YouTube video on the link between depression and dreaming - if you haven’t already seen it!
For further information on why depressed people wake up exhausted see here: www.why-we-dream.com/depression.htm
Posted by: Eleanor

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Here is an oldish interview with Joe Griffin answering questions on REM sleep, depression, psychosis, trauma, conflict and cult behaviour, published in New Scientist in April 2003:
We live in mad times. The WHO predicts depression will soon rank second in the global disease burden, suicide rates are rising, and the trauma caused by war, conflict […]

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A study on sleep shows that rats who have less sleep have a higher level of stress hormone corticosterone, and produces less braincells in the region of the hippocampus. Another indication of the importance of getting the right amount of sleep - well in rats at least.

We constantly inform people about the importance of sleep […]

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I must admit I don’t know much about Scientology at all, apart from vague unformulated ideas about aliens and pictures of Tom Cruise looking positively manic, so I have only recently noticed that Scientology is very associated with the idea that mental health problems can be treated without drugs.
I had previously dismissed Scientology as some […]

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I’ve been reading Seroxat Secrets, a blog about the pharmaceutical industry (specifically GlaxoSmithKline) and how research surrounding the anti-depressant is often misrepresented.
Worth a look if this interests you.
Posted by: Eleanor

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( go here if you’re searching for general information on depression and REM sleep)
Psychotherapy is a specialised branch of education and feartheseeds has hit the nail on the head by asking a question on the comments for this post about how knowledge of the link between REM sleep (the brain state in which dreaming occurs) […]

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TEACHING GPs the skills to offer brief cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) to patients with depression has “no discernible impact” on outcome for the patients, a recent randomised controlled trial has found.[1] But, alas, instead of questioning whether there might be a more effective way for GPs to offer brief therapy for depression within their time […]

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Our College Principal, Ivan Tyrrell, explains why depressed people wake up still feeling exhausted and tired and discusses the link between depression and dreaming.
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Posted by: Eleanor

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Here is a moving exerpt from NHS Blog Doctor’s weekly casebook:
“I had the St John’s Wort/cow dung conversation today. Again. A rather sad woman who is not coping at work. She is not clinically depressed. She has a rotten boss, an indifferent husband and a very difficult teenage daughter. (Are any teenage daughters not difficult?).
But […]

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The proposed Mental Health Bill 2004 still has some serious flaws.
The Government needs to go back to the basic principles of primary care: helping people get their innate physical and emotional needs met. These needs, the ‘human givens’, are each individual’s genetic inheritance. (Our biology determines that we cannot avoid needing food, water, attention, status, […]

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