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Lynch reiterates commitment to mental health services
Minister of State with responsibility for mental health Kathleen Lynch has said she has a guarantee that the additional €15 million dropped from investment in mental health services in 2014 will be...
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Letter to Examiner: Mental health paying price for underfunding of health...
How can Minister Lynch claim she is committed to mental health when mental health services are closing and budgets are being reduced? Also, over the past number of years an annual sum of €35m was set...
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Why talking is key to a healthy sexual relationship
Communication is the essence of sex, where the basic function is to communicate genetic information from one person to another to create a new individual. A little talk goes a long way to ensure a...
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Junior doctor who took own life worked immoral hours, mum tells inquest
Dr Jessica Murphy (26) was found unconscious in her apartment at Exchange Hall in Tallaght, Dublin 24, on December 1 last year. She was later pronounced dead at Tallaght Hospital, where she was a...
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Call for annual health screen for those with mental illness
Everybody with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia or manic depressive illness, should have an annual health screen with an emphasis on risk factors for heart disease, according to Prof...
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Paul Gilligan: A new story for mental health
Recent research by the Royal College of Surgeons found that, by the age of 13, a third of young people in Ireland are likely to have experienced some type of mental disorder. Creating a safe, loving...
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Over 2,500 children on waiting lists for mental health services
More than 2,500 children and adolescents were on waiting lists for mental health services at the end of September last year, an increase of 24 per cent. The figure is published in the 5th annual report...
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“We are very aggressive about physical illness, but we are very bad about...
Teenage boys who are showing symptoms of depression could be identified by a test for the stress hormone cortisol, according to new research from the University of Cambridge published today. The...
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Government needs to see mental health as an economic issue
For the majority of people, anti-depressants will reduce depression. For the majority of people, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) will reduce depression. Research tells us that self-help books,...
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Prof Jim Lucey’s new book
His new book In My Room – the Recovery Journey as Encountered by a Psychiatrist , is based on composite real-life experiences of depression, alcohol dependence, obsessive compulsive disorder and...
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