[caption id="attachment_163" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Photo: Idea go"][/caption] This topic seems to be timely. Every now and again some politician, celebrity or sportsman comes ‘clean’ and admits to have a ‘problem’. They say they cannot ‘control themselves’, are ‘addicted’, etc. Today’s article is going to consider the status of out-of-control sexual behaviour ...
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[caption id="attachment_177" align="alignright" width="199" caption="Photo: Katie Lane"][/caption] Let’s rethink another topic; one, that to many appears to be an adult-only problem. What is worrying is that not many abnormal psychology or clinical psychology books mention it. And I certainly have not heard about it at university during my bachelors degree (not to ...
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A bit of introduction. Alcohol dependence is one of the most prevalent disorders, often comorbid with other psychological and physical health problems, such as anxiety and depressive disorders. The disorder poses a great burden upon the individual, their family, occupational and social life (Teesson, Degenhardt & Hall, 2003). Alcoholism, to some seems ...
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Depression. Currently it is everywhere; the awareness of the problem is becoming common knowledge. Simply googling the term brings hundreds of results, bookshops are full self-help books and almost all of us know somebody who experienced some type of depression or experienced it themselves. It is recognised as a ...
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Let me introduce myself. My name is Kamila and I am soon to become a masters student in Developmental Psychopathology at Durham University, I have graduated from Northumbria University this year with first class honours. I'm a bit of nerd, a born again atheist (aka as survivor of christianity and indoctrination) and ...
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