Halcyon Identifies

 

Mental health professionals find it difficult to diagnose depression in minorities, many of whom are reluctant to seek psychiatric care.

A long-term tracking study suggests that people vastly underreport the amount of mental illness they’ve suffered.

Responses - 08/02/08

• Depression/Self-Esteem - it is argued that the best way to try and overcome being depressed, when comparing ourselves with other people, is by simply changing our reference points.

Problems - 01/09/2007

• Depression/Health/Therapy - as much as 14% of global disease and 23% of global disability are attributable to mental illness.

Responses - 24/05/07

• Depression - how people are trying to overcome the "black dog" of depression.
• Future - easily understood approaches that can help people think strategically about their personal future.

Responses - 17/05/07

• Depression - if country walks can help reduce depression and raise self-esteem, should "ecotherapy" be a recognised treatment for mental health problems?
• Education - is self-education is going to become tomorrow’s norm?
• Ethics - investors are increasingly forcing ethics onto corporate agendas.
• Future - how trends in many key areas of life will affect us in the future.
• Happiness - "The Happiness Project" devotes itself to what some consider humans' most elusive secret: what to do to be sustainably happy.
• Health - how to embed "healthy" thinking at all levels of an organisation.
• Sustainability - how some companies invest in the economic, environmental, and ethical factors key to the future valuation of businesses.