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Linking Medications and Mood: Could Your Prescription be Causing Depression or Mania?
Understanding the relationship between medications and mood disorders is important for anyone taking prescriptions. For some, treatments...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Dec 14, 20245 min read
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DBT - what is it and how can it help?
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, or DBT, is an evidence-based treatment originally developed by Marsha Linehan for people diagnosed with...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Jan 12, 20242 min read
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Let go of negative thoughts to a more positive new year
The way we perceive, think, and feel impacts the way we react and can develop into a pattern of negative thought and behaviour. Often we...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Jan 1, 20242 min read
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Depression
Depression can happen to any of us as we age, regardless of our background or achievements. And the symptoms of depression in older...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20235 min read
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Anxiety
Anxiety is the most common mental health condition in Australia. Up to one-third of women and one-fifth of men will experience anxiety at...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20232 min read
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Loneliness
Let's chat about loneliness. A lack of social inclusion, connections, and a perception of valuelessness can often become internalised...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20232 min read
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Light therapy
Many people around the world suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). SAD typically presents in countries with low light for many...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20231 min read
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Here comes the sun
Eighty percent of our vitamin D comes from sunlight conversion. In my previous post I discussed how a lack of sunlight (and hence)...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20232 min read
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Let's chat about exercise
No, not exercise to lose weight, Exercise that increases, or maintains brain volume, and may help to prevent age-related disease such as...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20233 min read
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Trauma
Let's chat about trauma. Just as we are all individual, different events affect people in different ways. What one person perceives as a...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20232 min read
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