Tag: Mental Health
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University of Limerick take home the Spike Milligan 2018 Prize!
Spike goes to Limerick! Univeristy of Limerick win Annual Public Spike Milligan Public Speaking Competition for Medical Students, 28.11.2018 After a fantastic night in the Button Factory in Dublin, Ashlyn Fong and Orla Power, medical students from UL took home the top prize at the Annual Spike Milligan Public Speaking Competition hosted by the College.…
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Cannabis is now the main drug driving referral to adolescent addiction services
PRESS STATEMENT: 30th November 2018 Cannabis is now the main drug driving referral to adolescent addiction services say concerned psychiatrists amid coverage of cannabis use in the last week. Cannabis is now the leading cause of new presentations to Ireland’s adolescent addiction services. The trends in cannabis use and cannabis related harms which are evident…
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Learn from me: speak out, seek help, get treatment
This article was written by Dr Steve Robinson, published online MJA Insight on 22/10/2018. I discovered CrazySocks4Docs Day held annually on 1 June, only this year. The day aims to ‘encourage conversations about mental health and help reduce the stigma for doctors experiencing mental illness’. When I discovered the day thanks to my burgeoning Twitter obsession, I…
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Please stop using my mental illness as an adjective
“God, the weather is so bipolar today.” Hollie Smith asks, please stop using my mental illness as an adjective, in World Mental Health day article. Cover photo by Matthew Brodeur on Unsplash October 10th is World Mental Health Day. “Yeah, I’m so OCD—I keep everything clean.” “Ugh, she’s a total schizo!” It’s easy to slip up and use these phrases if you don’t fully understand the…
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‘We talk about depression but when it comes to life-long debilitating mental illnesses, we still have a long way to go’
Today is World Mental Health day. Shamim Malekmian talks to a young man who fights a daily battle with a complex ailment. This article appeared in The Irish Examiner on 10.10.2018. For almost two decades, Gregg Kelly nursed a dark suspicion that everyone in his hometown of Ballincollig, Co Cork, deeply resented him. “When I was…
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Dr John Hillery discusses the states failure to meet staffing targets in the mental health sector on Clare FM.
President of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, Dr John Hillery, speaks with Gavin Grace of Clare FM, about the states failure to meet staffing targets and how this has affected service provision in the mental health sector. Dr Hillery highlighted the need to increase the mental health budget which currently rests at just 6%…
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Schizophrenia: Causes, treatments and outcomes
Prof Brendan Kelly presents a clinical overview of schizophrenia, including the multifactorial causes, diagnosis, and the options for treatment and management. This article appeared in the medicalindependent.ie on 23/08/18. Schizophrenia is a common mental illness that has significant effects, not only on patients and families, but also on the mental health system in general. In addition, schizophrenia…
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Medical Students & Interns gain insight into career in psychiatry at Summer School
Last Friday Medical students and Interns from across the country were welcomed by the College to the Psychiatry Summer School, at the Maldron Hotel on Pearse Street, for an insight into the varied career opportunities that lie within the many psychiatric specialties and subspecialties – areas of interest which are often not covered in Undergraduate teaching. Organised by the…
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‘I spent many years wondering what the hell happened’
They had been close at school and kept in touch afterwards, but it was when successful musician and writer Kevin Nolan opened up about his mental health struggle to journalist Philip Ryan, that a conversation led to a whole new understanding and awareness. This opinion piece with writer and musician Kevin Nolan appeared in the Independent.ie,…
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Shining a light on personality disorder
This article, written by Prof Patricia Casey, appeared in the Independent.ie 21/08/18. The Irish public is now well versed in aspects of various mental illnesses. Gone are the taboos that surrounded psychiatric illness in the past, when it was spoken of in whispered tones and seen as a weakness instead of being viewed with compassion and…