There has been a growing awareness and concern about young people who self-harm or injure over the past ten years. While self-injury used to be considered to be pathognomonic of Borderline Personality Disorder, it is so common these days that it is more useful to think of it as way individuals have come to deal […]
Issues in Student Mental Health
There as been great concern over the past ten years about the growing need for student mental health support in universities. The underlying reasons for the increase in distress in university students has not been well elucidated. Some people like to attribute the increased need to an increased number of students with emotional difficulties getting […]
Depression in Adolescents and Young Adults
Diagnosing and treating depression in the late adolescent/early adult period can be complicated and confusing. Research models provide some important data, but the research has to be interpreted through proper clinical acumen. The DSM system has given us guidelines to diagnosis, but in this age group, as in others, many patients don’t fit cleanly […]