Self-harming is often a way for a person to try and cope with particularly difficult or distressing emotions and thoughts that they are experiencing.

Priory Wellbeing Centre in Dubai will be running a CME accredited evening lecture on “21st Century Psychiatry”, presented by Dr Walid Abdul-Hamid, Medical Director, MBChb,MRCPsych, PhD, EMDR Europe Consultant, Supervisor and Trainer in trai…

Binge eating disorder (BED) is one of the newest eating disorders to be recognised in the DSM-5. It is a severe, although treatable, illness that is characterised by “recurrent episodes of eating large quantities of food (often very quickly…

Dr Walid Abdul-Hamid, Medical Director at Priory Wellbeing Centre Dubai, has recently collaborated with the charity Trauma Aid UK to provide Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) training to volunteer Jordanian psychologists.…

Mental health can feel like a taboo subject for men living in Dubai. It can be something that people pretend doesn’t exist, but something that worsens over time until it becomes intolerable. It is important for men to understand that there …

A panic attack is an intense and unexpected wave of fear. They often strike out of the blue, without any warning and sometimes with no clear cause. However, they can happen repeatedly, where they are triggered by something that previously l…