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  • Teenage anxiety: Tailored treatment needed

    Source: BBC News

    A one-size-fits-all approach to treating teenagers with anxiety problems may be putting their futures at risk, a study suggests.

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  • How Stress Is Making You Lose Your Mind

    Stress is affecting your brain much more than you think. Sure, you've experienced the distraction, forgetfulness, negativity or anxiety that comes from stressful situations, but did you know it's also shrinking your brain?

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  • An insight into youth mental health services

    Source: The Guardian

    The health select committee has found 'serious and deeply engrained problems' in mental health services for young people

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  • How one in five have given up smoking

    Source: New Scientist

    Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. Willpower, it turns out, counts for very little.

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  • Hypnosis - does it really work?

    Source: Daily Mail

    At last, it's official. Hypnotism really does work - and it has an impact on the brain which can be measured scientifically, according to one of America's leading psychiatrists.

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  • Can Hypnotherapy beat IBS?

    Source: Chrysalis

    Research has suggested that hypnotherapy appears to be an effective treatment, long-term, for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The research claimed that sufferers were feeling the benefits for at least five years.

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