| Roussos, Tina |
From being dumped by waves to finding shells on the beach: Rediscovering life after a mental health crisis in later life (PDF, 74.5 KB) |
Journal 33 December 2024 |
anxiety, continuum, doubling, intervention, isolation, loneliness, mental health, Moreno, sociometry |
There is a myth in the mental health field that medication is the only intervention option for older patients. The patients themselves often believe this myth. Depressed and anxious older people talk of reduced contact with friends and family, withdrawing into themselves, and being judged for not shaking off the illness. Experiencing significant losses of life partners and long friendships, and trying to cope with their mental illness, they often believe that at this time in their lives they are not going to be able to make new friendships and cannot look forward to positive experiences. I wanted to challenge this myth. |
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2024-12 |
| Baakman, Paul |
Shining a Light on the Blues: the Gift of Psychodrama (PDF, 199.3 KB) |
Journal 30 December 2021 |
addiction, antidepressants, anxiety, creativity, de-institutionalisation, depression, role theory, social atom, therapeutic community, therapeutic relationship |
Introduction Structural restrains, in terms of mental health funding, a biochemical narrative based on shaky evidence and the profit motive in Big Pharma, contribute to a pathologising cultural force which promotes a medical model that has reduced aspects of human suffering to an illness to be cured by drugs. Psychodramatists, psychotherapists and counsellors can make a difference by providing psychodrama as a drug-free approach in working with depression and anxiety. |
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2021-12 |
