I'm sure you've heard by now that we've been in deep water. My team and I are safe but shaken, both from our own experience of...
Flooded with Thoughts about Mental Health
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Have You Met Your Hype-Guy?
About 15 years ago I was introduced to histamine, the neurotransmitter. Before that, I only knew him (come on...it has to be, right? Histamine) as an immune molecule, an allergy mediator, a chemotactic agent of chaos! Given my interest & previous work in mental...
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Are We Missing A Different Kind of ‘Hyper’ Child?
Stop press. No, seriously.  This new research warrants the attention of every practitioner working with children & teenagers. In the largest paediatric study of its kind to date, which included 2,480 children aged 10-18yrs diagnosed with hyperthyroidism (Grave's...
No. 1 If You Are a Parent, Get Yourself a Team
Hear Hear...on all levels, right. But this is actually the first recommendation of an easy to read patient resource for families dealing with adolescent depression, that you and your patients can access here. As lovely as the picture above makes parenting look, the...
Are you Listening for the Good News?
Want to start 2017 with some good news? Sometimes working with patients challenged by mental health I get scared.  A well-known colleague of mine introduced me to the notion of the 'clinician in crisis'. The practitioner who, in the face of their patient's...
Carbohydrate Intolerance…by any other name
Language is such a powerful thing and the art of 'reframing', to express a concept differently in order to facilitate a fresh perspective, can be the difference between engagement and disengagement. I see the power of this in my clinic and with each year of practice I...
Mental Health Assessment for the Integrative Practitioner
I became interested in working in mental health not entirely of my own free will.  I guess you could say, it had made it's way into my world via family members and friends as well as my own problems when I was younger. So when I was at uni and I came across any...
Are We Setting Patients Up to Fail?
Fresh faced students, new graduates and seasoned practitioners alike, are forever reminding me of the challenge we experience as practitioners when it comes to instigating real change in our patients health related behaviours ... the change we KNOW will make a...