The Pandemic and shopping addiction
As shops reopen, a Priory specialist talks about the changing face of shopping - and why, for some, ‘shopping addiction’…
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Overeating and alcohol in lockdown
Life in lockdown is having a significant impact on our health. Recognising the triggers for over-eating or increased alcohol intake…
Hope Virgo Meets And Inspires Patients at Priory Eating Disorder Clinic
· Mental health campaigner Hope Virgo visited Life Works Hospital in Woking, Surrey · Author of “Stand Tall Little Girl;…
Resisting the Allure of Black Friday
Compulsive Buying Disorder – or shopping addiction - is a damaging behaviour and remains the occasional rather than the norm.…
Festival Season – “Wise up about drugs!”
Ahead of the music festivals season - and with the end of exams looming - the time is rife to…
How To Help Your Addicted Colleague
Alcoholism in the workplace is not a spectator sport. How to help your addicted colleague. Much of my working life,…
Surviving and thriving in the digital age
Dr Richard Graham is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of Good Thinking: The London Digital Mental Well-being Service, who will…
Banning smartphones for children
More than two thirds (67%) of parents with children aged 10-18 think that the Government should introduce legislation setting out…
Opioids are not a class issue
Over the last five years at the Priory’s Hayes Grove Hospital, I have seen a rise in the abuse of,…
The rise of sexual anorexia
Sexual anorexia, which is a set of attitudes and behaviours to sex very much like a food anorexic’s attitudes and…
Alcohol addiction is no respecter of income
As figures show that those in professional jobs are much more likely to be regular alcohol drinkers than those on…
Opioid addiction fuelled by painkillers
Opioid addiction, fuelled by OTC medication and prescription pain killers, has reached epidemic proportions in the US but is becoming…