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Posts Categorised: Anxiety and Stress

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Posted 10 April 2013 by Danny Allen

All, Anxiety and Stress, Depression, Mental Illness

We go about our everyday lives in two domains: the emotional and the logical. So, for example, we fall in love (emotional) and then decide to live with or marry the perosn (logical). When a relative dies we feel many emotions but manage to cope with this by allowing ourselves gradually to accept it. Logically… Read more »

I keep checking I’ve turned the gas off – can I be helped?

Posted 21 March 2013 by Danny Allen

All, Anxiety and Stress, Mental Illness

Some people develop a condition where they feel compelled to check and recheck things many times over – sometimes to the extent where they are unable to get on with normal daily activities. Sufferers may have long and complex rituals which they feel compelled to carry out and if they deviate even marginally they feel… Read more »

Can I get help for my relative if they don’t want it?

Posted 22 January 2013 by Danny Allen

All, Anxiety and Stress, Mental Illness

There is a common myth about mental illness, which goes something like this: ‘unless a person wants to change they cannot be helped’. Like all myths there is a grain of truth in it but it is primarily true only for personal and psychological problems, drug and alcohol related problems and mild degrees of mental… Read more »

Are people who suffer from schizophrenia dangerous?

Posted 26 December 2012 by Danny Allen

All, Anxiety and Stress, Psychiatry

The short answer is that the vast majority of people who suffer from schizophrenia pose absolutely no danger to anyone. However, as we all know from reading the papers, the very few who do harm people get huge amounts of publicity. So why do people with schizophrenia sometimes harm others (or indeed themselves)? Very often… Read more »

Why Your Client Needs a Testamentary Capacity Report

Posted 26 November 2012 by Danny Allen

All, Anxiety and Stress, Mental Illness

My Practice receives a lot of enquiries about Mental Capacity Reports but less instructions. Clients do not seem to understand their value and perhaps the same is true for some solicitors. Yet, on a regular basis, my elderly psychiatrist colleagues charge many thousands of pounds to sift through the medical records of deceased people, whose… Read more »

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