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Alcohol – pleasure or poison

8th May 20218th May 20212 Comments on Alcohol – pleasure or poison

I think a lot about alcohol. This is inevitable, given that I work on an in-patient unit in a psychiatric hospital, treating people who have become alcohol dependent, but my views are less clear than you might think. When I talk about mental illness, I do so from the perspective of both psychiatrist and patient,…

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From 2 metres behind the frontline

24th March 202024th March 20202 Comments on From 2 metres behind the frontline

The last couple of weeks have been trying for all of us, wherever we live. Fear of covid-19, fear of illness, fear for loved ones, fear for livelihood, fear of isolation. All of these are massive stressors in their own right, so thrown all together their impact is grim. But it is the usual lot…

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