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How the link between REM sleep and depression affects the treatment of Bipolar Disorder

January 5th, 2007 · 17 Comments

( 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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Tags: Psychosis · Manic Depression · Exhaustion · REM state · Early waking · Psychotherapist · Ivan Tyrrell · Symptoms of depression · Bi Polar · bipolar disorder · NHS · Dreaming · Depression · Psychotherapy · Depressed · Worrying · Clinical Depression · Psychology

The link between dreaming and depression

December 9th, 2006 · 9 Comments

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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Tags: REM state · Emotional needs · Exhaustion · Counselling · Early waking · Childhood Depression · Psychotherapist · Ivan Tyrrell · Counsellors · Mind and Body · The Brain · Depression · Meaning · Mental Health · Psychology · Dreaming · Psychotherapy · Worrying · Clinical Depression · Depressed · Sleep

The Times: Parents demand prozac for high achieving children/anxiety “masks” depression?

November 17th, 2006 · No Comments

Two articles about depression in The Times today came to my attention.
Firstly, Lucy Bannerman reports on research which shows that 36% of medical professionals feel “bullied” by parents into prescribing dangerous anti-depressant drugs as a “quick-fix cure” for children who are under pressure to do well in exams. What is even more alarming is that […]

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Tags: Emotional needs · Human Givens · Manic Depression · The Times · Counselling · Exhaustion · REM state · Early waking · Psychotherapist · Thomas Stuttaford · Counsellors · Childhood Depression · Symptoms of depression · Prozac · Worrying · Psychology · Mental Health · Anxiety · Stress · Resources · Depression · Publications · Depressed · Clinical Depression · Psychotherapy · Anti-depressants · Dreaming · Research

New book “How to Master Anxiety” has just arrived!

November 2nd, 2006 · 1 Comment

Hot off the press, the very first delivery of the next title in our ‘Essential help in troubled times - the human givens approach’ series has just arrived.
We experienced a lot of anxiety ourselves in getting this book to print, so it’s very satisfying to finally be able to hold a copy!
Here’s some further information […]

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Tags: The Brain · PTSD · Worrying · Clinical Depression · Phobias · Depressed · Mind and Body · Exhaustion · Early waking · Independent Practitioners · Human Givens · Emotional needs · Insecurity · Phobia · Fear · Neuroscience · Mental Health · Meaning · Anxiety · Resources · Status · Research · Depression · Regulation · Alcohol · Psychotherapy · Dreaming · OCD · Publications · News

How worrying leads to depression

November 1st, 2006 · 11 Comments

Anyone who worries unconstructively is in danger of clinical depression. Depression is not selective - to take recent examples from the media: the famous, single mothers, politicians, men, women are all susceptible to depression.
When you worry incessantly about something which can’t be immediately solved or is circular, you generate unresolved emotional arousal. Once an […]

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