Sublime

There has, however, been a recent change in the approach of the medical establishment towards the use of SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) medications for children and teenagers. The WHO fact sheet about depression refers to antidepressants and states that, “They should not be used for treating depression in children and are not the

From the earliest days of my medical career I’d held a deep, intuitive feeling, almost a sympathetic pain for patients whose illnesses made them unrecognizable, sometimes even to themselves. Perhaps because I’d experienced my own identity as fragile, my old fear of not having a handwriting, I saw myself in these patients.

official psychiatry has not recognized psychosomatic medicine for years. Even the term has been banished from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and been replaced by the term somatoform

One condition where the mind and body interact in perhaps the most complex and difficult to disentangle way is with fibromyalgia. This is a diagnosis that goes in and out of favour as in – is it a real thing? Or is it a physical, or psychological condition? Or is it simply a form of prolonged mental distress?

I could not persuade Rachel to consider anything but medication to treat her fatigue. The only treatment proven to offer at least some benefit to those with ME/CFS is a graded exercise programme and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).