women’s health
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Thousands of UK women have undiagnosed PTSD after childbirth each year, study finds
Thousands of UK women develop undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after childbirth…
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alcohol, Anxiety, Health, Health & wellbeing, Life and style, menopause, Mental health, Psychology, sleep, women’s healthAnnie thought perimenopause symptoms were keeping her awake. Alcohol was playing a role too | Diane Young
When Annie* started pacing around her house at 3am and struggling to…
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acute pain, catastrophising, Editor Dafni Katsampa, endometriosis, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Menstruation, Mental health, new zealand, pain, pain behaviour, prospective study, psychological wellbeing, psychotherapy, quality of life, self-compassion, women’s health, women’s mental healthEndometriosis and self-compassion: breaking the pain catastrophising cycle
You don’t want a baby yet, though, do you? A seemingly simple…
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Adoption, Children, Counselling and therapy, Mental health, Parents and parenting, pregnancy, Society, UK news, women’s healthFor survivors of forced adoption, the trauma can last a lifetime | Letters
I gave up my child for adoption in the late 1960s. I…
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abuse, advocacy, BMC Public Health, community outreach, domestic abuse, domestic violence, Editor Laura Hemming, intimate partner violence, meta-analysis, meta-analytic review, perpetration, psychotherapy, sexual abuse, sexual violence, systematic review, trauma, violence, violence perpetration, vulnerable people, women’s health, women’s mental healthWhat works in domestic abuse and sexual violence services? Encouraging signals, fragmented evidence, and an urgent measurement problem
Domestic abuse and sexual violence are highly prevalent and have profound consequences…
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Illness narratives are broken – and they’re failing women like me | Emma Hardy
There was a moment, deep in the throes of my illness, when…
