It is a group for men specifically.

And it’s designed to help those with anxiety and depression learn to control their mood.

The Oshawa Community Health Centre is offering a Mind over Mood group, which uses Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to teach participants how to gain control over their thoughts in order to change their moods. 

Mind over Mood is offered to men who experience symptoms of anxiety and depression and who have difficulty managing stress. this eight-week group is offered on Wednesday nights starting at 5:30 p.m. The two-hour sessions start on September 21 at the centre which is located 115 Grassmere Ave.

Those interested in the group can call 905-723-0036 ext. 215 for more information and to register, as advanced registration is required.  

For more information regarding the Oshawa Community Health Centre, visit ochc.ca

THE biggest-ever study of treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome has found more people recover if helped to try to do more than they think they can – rather than adapting to a life of limited activity.

The findings of the study, published in the Lancet, attracted immediate criticism from patient groups, some of whom believe there is a conspiracy by the psychiatric establishment to brand chronic fatigue as being ”all in the mind”. they insist it is a physical disease, probably with a viral cause.

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Doctors involved in the new trial say they are looking only at treating the symptoms, not the cause. in a quarter of cases, sufferers are unable to leave the house. The symptoms include exhaustion, poor concentration, memory problems, disturbed sleep, and joint and muscle pains.

The trial, funded by the UK Medical Research Council together with the Department of Health, followed 641 patients for a year.

It found that patients showed more improvement – and a small minority recovered completely – after cognitive behaviour therapy, one of the so-called psychological ”talking therapies”, or graded exercise therapy, where the patient is encouraged gradually to become more active.

Although the numbers who recovered were small, Trudie Chalder, professor of cognitive behavioural psychotherapy at King’s College, London, said that ”twice as many people on graded exercise therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy got back to normal” compared with those in the other two treatment groups.