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COVID-19 how healthcare professionals cope PTSD

Medical professionals are not just trying to fight the coronavirus, many will have their own personal fears and difficulties to grapple with too. This includes a fear of infection and getting sick, not being able to save patients and hearing of co-workers and friends dying. Professor Ben Green shares with us some tips as to how medical personnel can better deal with these emotional traumas they face and what support and treatment are available.

COVID-19 healthcare professionals frontline risk PTSD

Experts have suggested that doctors and nurses who are enduring long working hours and witnessing large scale infections and deaths, might require PTSD therapy or other mental health treatment following the coronavirus pandemic. Professor Ben Green, a psychiatrist from Liverpool, explores similar events through history to help us understand whether this is, in fact, an issue that many might already be experiencing.

Is it easy to become addicted to opioid painkillers when living with chronic pain?

Pain is a common symptom that some people may have to live with every day. But medicating chronic pain in conditions such as arthritis, migraines and fibromyalgia, could be a slippery slope for some who may rely on these pain relievers, such as opioids, too much. Here, one of our top psychiatrist Dr Oscar D'Agnone explains how it's so easy to become addicted to painkillers.

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