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24Sep

Why Bodyguard’s David Budd Needed Counselling

Louise Chunn

cbt, emdr, PTSD, trauma, TV

Mind

A hugely popular BBC thriller, Bodyguard, showed the effects of PTSD on a former soldier. How should PTSD be treated?
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05Jul

Growing up in the Rajneesh Cult: My Life in Orange by Tim Guest

Louise Chunn

books, therapy, TV

Soul

Tim Guest was only five when his mother took him into the Bhagwan Rajneesh cult. With the popularity of Netflix's Wild Wild Country, his book My Life in Orange is re-published
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14Nov

Inspiring Winners of the Mind Media Awards 2017

Louise Chunn

campaign, films, society, TV

Mind

Louise Chunn was a judge at this year's Mind Media Awards. Here she reports on the strong entries in radio, TV, press, and the star-studded awards evening
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26Apr

Does '13 Reasons Why' Romanticise Teen Suicide?

Welldoing

culture, suicide, teenager, TV, youth

Mind

Media reports about the Netflix TV series 13 Reasons Why focus on our fear of suicide among teens. But watching it also give parents a good opportunity to talk about a difficult subject
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15Nov

Mind Media Awards 2016 Winners

Mind

campaign, charity, culture, film, TV

Mind

Last night mental health charity Mind announced the winners of their 2016 Media Awards - see the full list here
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14Oct

Fleabag: an Anti-Heroine for Our Times

Jacqueline Palmer

men, relationships, sex, TV, women

Therapists

Refreshing, foul-mouthed, explicit, Fleabag is a six-part TV black comedy that exposes more about its main character than most. Therapist Jacqueline Lucas Palmer analyses its appeal
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26Sep

TV's Cold Feet Tackles Mid-Life Male Depression

Welldoing

depression, men, midlife, TV

Mind

Cold Feet author Mike Bullen used his own experience of mid-life depression to write a storyline about Pete Gifford's crumbling mental health in the new TV series
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14Jul

How Meditation Cured Dan Harris's Panic Attacks

Louise Chunn

anxiety, meditation, mindfulness, TV

Mind

US journalist Dan Harris’s on-screen meltdown radically altered his life. Before his nationally broadcast panic attack on ABC news, Harris was your average over-worked, professionally anxious reporter. He’d joined the network at the extremely young age of 21, and was  thrown into the deep end when he was sent to Afghanistan to cover the Taliban. After a long stint dodging bullets in Afghanistan and then Pakistan, he returned home to a studio-bound job  with a severe case of undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. He dealt with this by dosing himself up on...
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11Jul

I'm a Female TV Sports Addict

Anne Wilson

TV

Soul

Do you realise the pressure I’ve been under this summer? Not because of my job, or an unusual number of family celebrations. Instead, it’s the pressure of watching every World Cup game, the tennis, the Tour de France and keeping an eye on the Premiership transfer market, whilst still maintaining a semblance of normal family life. I love watching sport; I was brought up on it. It was a family thing - tennis and athletics for mum, footie for dad. I remember the delicious ritual of closing the curtains to keep out the summer sun while we watched the Olympics,...
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26Jun

The Draper Complex: When a Man Turns Against His Defences

Aaron Balick

emotions, therapy, TV

Therapists

Mad Men's Don Draper is not Tony Soprano.  The weird world of psychoanalysing fictional figures  had a field day with the latter – from labelling him with narcissistic or anti-social personality disorder to settling on a severe Oedipus Complex.Whatever the conclusion, the Mafia boss was clearly symptomatic. However little you’d expect a man like Tony to seek psychotherapy, he had to. You cannot run the North Jersey crime syndicate while suffering panic attacks. People don’t turn against their defences when they are perceived to be working in their...
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