Browsing: Illness

There was a moment, deep in the throes of my illness, when I realised I was never getting better. There was no cure for me: only…

“What you’ve got there from the sun on your face is a massive boost of serotonin!” says Alison Greenwood, founder of Dose of Nature, the charity…

At first glance, the psychiatric ward in Trondheim looks much like any other unit caring for patients in acute mental distress. But as evening falls, filters…

Our current approach to mental health labelling and diagnosis has brought benefits. But as a practising doctor, I am concerned that it may be doing more…

My psychological research rarely makes good comedy material, but in a standup show in London recently, those two worlds collided. One of the jokes was about…

Someone is shot, and almost dies; the fragility of life is intimately revealed to him. He goes on to have flashbacks of the event, finds that…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.Think of a psychiatric condition, something like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, panic disorder or anorexia…

Amy Bies was recovering in the hospital from injuries inflicted during a car accident in May 2007 when routine laboratory tests showed that her blood glucose…

An extra 600,000 people will leave the British workforce in the next decade due to long-term health conditions unless ministers usher in “a fundamental shift” in…

For anyone who has been close to an alcoholic, or someone with mental-health issues or, as is the case here, both at once, this is a…