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Rainbow Capitalism
The Commodification of Pride & its Impact on LGBTQ+ Mental Health
Melisa Kose
Jul 1, 20218 min read

Walter Mitty's Case For Fiction
In A World Apt For Escapism, Why Stay? The world is brimming with content. Video games, books, movies, articles, social media...
Nicolas Allard
Jun 29, 20215 min read


Starting a Mental Health Employee Network Group at Work
Six months after graduating from University and starting my career at BMW UK, my world was torn apart when I found out a close friend...
Evie Johnson
Jun 22, 20214 min read

Black Minds Matter
Why we need to talk about black mental health As a young, black researcher at the beginning of a career in mental health research,...
Celeste Miller
Jun 11, 20215 min read


How lockdown changed my life for the better
And several important lessons it taught me. 2020 was one of the most challenging years we’ve ever faced not only here in the UK, but...
Chloe Faulkner
Jun 9, 20216 min read

The COVID-19 outbreak and mental health
On the road to reframing the narrative on mental health following the COVID-19 outbreak When I started writing this, it was mental health...
Giouliana Kadra-Scalzo
Jun 8, 20214 min read


I was born a few months after the Columbine shooting.
I was born a few months after the Columbine shooting. I always lived in a world where school shootings were normal Disclaimer: This blog...
Clare Liedstrand
May 30, 20213 min read


The opportunities and dangers of predicting mental health using social media
The opportunities and dangers of predicting mental health using social media: should one status reveal the other? It’s time to have a...
Madeleine Finlay
May 19, 20215 min read


Bans Off Our Bodies: A Californian's perspective on abortion rights
Bans Off Our Bodies: A Californian’s perspective on abortion rights Trigger warning: The following blog contains discussions about...
Clare Liedstrand
May 19, 20216 min read


INDIA NOW: COVID II WAVE; NEXT UP: MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
Endless SOS cries on Twitter pleading for oxygen, essential medicines and hospital beds are deafening. These aren’t calls just from...
Swati Singh
May 14, 20215 min read


What strategies are needed to survive the emotions that may follow the roadmap out of lockdown?
In the UK, COVID-19 restrictions have begun to ease from March 8th, 2021 after a punishing 3rd lockdown during the British winter. The...
Dr. Mia Eisenstadt
Apr 7, 20219 min read


Sarah Everard was just walking home
A conversation on women’s safety and the potential to make change At 9pm on the 3rd of March 2021, Sarah Everard left a friend’s house in...
Courtney Worrell
Mar 19, 202110 min read

Warm up your soul with a hot cup of tea
It goes without saying, this pandemic has been hard on us all. Not being able to be with the people you love is tough and it’s not...
Celeste Miller
Mar 12, 20214 min read


Third time’s not such a charm — Has lockdown 3.0 been the hardest?
I am from the UK, and this means that in just a few short weeks it will be exactly one year since our restrictions began with the first...
Courtney Worrell
Mar 3, 20217 min read

COVID-19 and the TikTok craze
Like many others during the early days of March’s first instalment of COVID lockdowns, I too joined the social media craze, TikTok. At...
Julia Jamka
Feb 17, 20217 min read

Why I’m Zooming out of virtual counselling
“Hello? Can you hear me?” was not something I thought I would be saying in the middle of my counselling session. Yet here I was, in my...
Anonymous
Feb 3, 20215 min read


Live, online, in person, from an armchair, or under the rain:
100 different ways to deliver culture and create human connection in the time of COVID-19 At the beginning of the year, we knew 2020 was...
Helen Bagnall
Dec 28, 20204 min read


Craft and Connection this Christmas
It goes without saying that this year has been unlike any other in our lifetime. Due to the pandemic, many of our usual Christmas...
Emily Hayes
Dec 21, 20205 min read


Christmas and pandemics: Times for love and anger
Now that government has decided how the festival season is to be celebrated are we any clearer? In some area’s pubs may open but cannot...
Dinesh Bhugra CBE
Dec 21, 20203 min read


The *ND Rough Guide to Thriving During the Holiday season
*A Neurodivergent lens Due to Covid-19 there maybe even more pressure to enjoy the festive season this year and the social expectations...
Natasha Trotman
Dec 21, 20203 min read

How is Climate Change Affecting our Mental Health?
The festive period is a time of high spirits and gift-giving, or at least as much of that as is possible in the midst of a global...
Celeste Miller
Dec 16, 20205 min read

Social distancing is the greatest act of solidarity in pandemic
I am working as a psychiatrist in a large hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. I will never forget the night between 11th and 12th of April...
Daniela Enache
Dec 11, 20205 min read


How can we improve the public narrative on the early years, and support parents?
Insight from the #5BigInsights “Parenthood isn’t a prerequisite to understand the importance of the early years” — HRH THE DUCHESS OF...
Carmine Pariante
Dec 2, 20205 min read


Working from home during the Coronavirus — good or bad for our mental health?
For years, many people have advocated that the majority of office work can be done from the comfort of one’s own home. If you are going...
Frances Weston
Nov 27, 20205 min read
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