Health Mastery Community Curiosity Health The meaning of health is “wholeness, a being whole, sound or well” Again we return to the concept to being ‘one’. When we are healthy there is so much enjoyment from life and as we all know, even with injury or pain we can still have a healthy life. Not everything is how we think that it will be. We aim to care for our own health, lead by example, continue to tweak our own areas of weakness and experiment with treatments, supplements and herbs to understand what they do and how they can help. In clinic, each of you may have a different idea […]
Depression
Depression is a common problem that is disabling, costly and often under treated (Candy, Jones, Williams, Tookman, & King, 2009). As the largest source of non-fatal disease burden in the world, it accounts for 12% of years lived with disability and is associated with marked personal, social and economic morbidity, loss of functioning and productivity (Churchill et al., 2012, NICE 2009 in MacKinnon, 2013). Clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of depression recommend antidepressants, cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) as potentially effective interventions (APA 2000; NICE 2004; RANZCP 2004 in MacKinnon, 2013). However, there is a large gap between recommended best practice and what people with depression actually […]