A six year Dutch study of 860 over 65′s found that those who exhibited the highest levels of the stress hormone cortisol had a fives times higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease. Cortisol is a hormone produced in order to aid the body’s recovery from stress. However, recent developments have found that high levels read more »

Welsh International Rugby Union referee Nigel Owens is fronting a Samaritans campaign which hopes to reduce the 4,000 male suicides a year in the UK and also aims to cut suicides on the railway, a move which has won the support of National Rail. Owens suffered from bulimia and depression after realising he was gay read more »

After establishing that it could take up until Christmas to rescue the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground, concerns have been raised for their mental health and Nasa have been called upon to offer advice on how to best care for the miners in their isolated and confined state. Despite finding comfort in the fact they read more »

Mental health charity Mind is continuing to work alongside the BBC’s Eastenders to ensure the story focussing on Stacey Slaters bipolar remains accurate and helpful. The episodes which took place last week saw Stacey being persuaded to stop taking the medication which she was prescribed to help manage her bipolar disorder. Though Stacey feels uncomfortable read more »

Recent research has found that teenagers who frequently deprive themselves of sleep by using the internet into the early hours stand a higher risk of developing a mental illness later in life, reports the Daily Mail. The age of social networking sites and the internet is upon us and with so much to do on read more »

New research has suggested that there are a number of children out there, bright, polite and academically sound who outright refuse to go to school and no it is not a clever play on truancy it is a very real and genuine phobia of the classroom. School Phobia is a condition which is currently estimated read more »

Misuse of alcohol by adolescents currently costs the NHS around £2.7bn a year and with the crackdown on underage drinking not really cutting the mustard what else can be done to curb this problem? Charities believe the best way to treat addiction is to attack the problem before it emerges, therefor educating adolescents about the read more »