Behavioural Wealth is able to offer a unique and discrete Advanced Mental Health Assessment. The service we offer is more than just your average mental or physical health assessment - we go above and beyond the standard way of assessing an individual’s physical and mental health.

Behavioural Wealth is able to offer a unique and discrete Advanced Mental Health Assessment. The service we offer is more than just your average mental or physical health assessment - we go above and beyond the standard way of assessing an individual’s physical and mental health.

It is estimated that the total spend for online gambling on the Chinese mainland is 145 billion dollars a year, which is a sizeable chunk of the total global spend and doesn’t even take into account other forms such as card games[2]. This happens despite the fact that most forms of gambling, excluding low-stakes games between friends and a state sponsored lottery[3], are illegal on the Chinese mainland.

Are you based in London, or travelling here a lot for work? Sometimes work and life pressures can get on top of us all and instead of trying to deal with everything alone, it is better to seek the help and advice from an expert. Behavioural Wealth in Central London can give you access to world class, cutting edge psychiatrists who are able to attend to any mental health or behavioural issue.

We all know that physical health is important, however, mental health is something which can dramatically affect the life of an individual and because it’s not visible like a broken bone, or an unhealthy BMI, it can often be overlooked by patients and doctors alike, especially when the patient is physically healthy and takes great care to maintain an optimum physical health.

Functional Medicine uses biology to assess, evaluate and then treat the root cause of a disease. It believes that each symptom and diagnosis that the patient has been given over their lifetime, may not be the final answer, but instead be one of many contributing factors to their illness.

If you are in a relationship with a narcissist, you are going to know that the standard response from most is to leave. Sometimes however it’s not as easy as just leaving.

It is more common than you might think to be disillusioned when a loved one stops drinking. On the one hand, of course you are thrilled that they no longer get drunk every day. However, do you feel that instead of their sobriety enhancing your relationship, it has now inexplicably become worse than before?

Body image struggles aren’t limited to women. Admittedly there is an enormous amount of pressure put on young girls to realise an idealised size, weight or body shape, however it would be fair to say that there is also less stigma attached to women having body issues, therefore it is talked about more and there is much more awareness and help available for women.

We're delighted to welcome Dr Philippe Wuyts as a guest contributor to our blog. Dr Philippe Wuyts worked as a consultant psychiatrist at the Clinique de la Costière in Nice, France (2013) and the Société Parisienne d'aide à la Santé Mentale (SPASM) in Paris, France (2014) before establishing his private practice.

Gathering at the Cavalry & Guards Club in London, James Brown & Sam Hall of Hall Brown Solicitors and Clarion Solicitors picked up the first ever Behavioural Wealth Awards.

The opioid crisis that started in America in the mid-1990s is spreading and the UK  is not immune. Between 2001 and 2013 the use of prescription opioids has doubled worldwide. In 2017 alone the BBC reported that, in England, GPs prescribed 23.8 million opioid-based painkillers - a rise of 10 million prescriptions since 2007. While prescriptions to treat depression and anxiety disorders have increased from 36 million to 70.9 million in the last ten years.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has conducted extensive research into mental health disorders and has found that they can be affected by a combination of psychological, biological, environmental and also genetic factors. Today more and more research is being done around genetics in mental health and they are discovering that there are certain genes and variations of genes which are associated with mental health disorders.

Addcounsel, Britain’s leading provider of individualised care programmes for those with behavioural health issues, is launching the Behavioural Wealth Awards on Monday 13th May 2019. These awards will recognise mental health initiatives in both the public and private sectors.

It was over a 1am cigarette and whisky sour with an old friend in the courtyard of 5 Hertford Street that breaking point was reached. He abruptly told me I needed to do something about my lifestyle, which was rich, I thought, as we were both two bottles deep. I was surprised by this so-called intervention, but also relieved: a part of me had felt for a while as if I had lost my way.

Instead of using yet another drug to combat a disease that is already a slave to substances, Functional Medicine aims to discover the root cause of the behaviour. Doctors practicing Functional Medicine attempt to ascertain what triggers the destructive behaviours, seeking to find the root cause and pin point the biological systems that have been disrupted. Once these have been found, interventions can then be put into place to aid the system’s recovery from addictions.

Whilst anxiety can be a paralysing state for some, for others with “functional anxiety” it is something quite different. Functional anxiety can be described as the state you need to be in in order to be a high achiever, necessary to give you that edge. It can often be found in people who work with unrelenting deadlines or making important, knife-edge deals as they believe they need the energy that low level anxiety provides. It’s what allows them to work on the weekend or get up before dawn and only leave the office when everyone else is long gone. Until it becomes too much. That’s when the pills come in.

Some find success with outpatient support, others have kicked their habit with 12 step support groups and others have needed to be removed from the community altogether for a period of time to get themselves in a better physical and mental state. Whatever research you may have done and conclusions you might have drawn for your own needs, you might still be confused about one common (perhaps controversial to some) term: medically assisted detox.