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How to write about your mental health without traumatising yourself

Mar 16, 20214 min read

How to write about your mental health without traumatising yourself

I’ve been a mental health writer for nearly eight years now. It’s something I enjoy writing about, and it’s something I know how to write...

Covid-19 has made leaving the house impossible - but I am trying

Hattie Gladewell

Mar 12, 20214 min read

The Hattie Gladwell Column

Covid-19 has made leaving the house impossible - but I am trying

I’ve always been someone who loves going out. To events with friends, for sleepovers, out shopping, clubbing, you name it. I was...

Celeste Miller

Mar 12, 20214 min read

Society & World News

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...

What I learned by taking a three-month break from social media

Hattie Gladewell

Mar 7, 20213 min read

The Hattie Gladwell Column

What I learned by taking a three-month break from social media

I open up my Twitter app, take a look through my timeline for the last time, and click ‘Deactivate Twitter’. My relationship with the...

Letting Go of My Eating Disorder Feels Like Mourning the Loss of a Loved One

Emily Bashforth

Mar 5, 20216 min read

Lived Experience

Letting Go of My Eating Disorder Feels Like Mourning the Loss of a Loved One

I was 12 years old when I started starving myself. By the time I was 13, I had a full eating disorder. My eating disorder has lasted...

Third time’s not such a charm — Has lockdown 3.0 been the hardest?

Courtney Worrell

Mar 3, 20217 min read

Society & World News

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...

Yes, I enjoy walks - but I take medication to help me live with mental illness

Hattie Gladewell

Mar 2, 20213 min read

The Hattie Gladwell Column

Yes, I enjoy walks - but I take medication to help me live with mental illness

I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was 20. Ever since, I have heard plenty of generic comments about what to do about it. I’ve...

What is this pain all about? Mental illness, philosophy and the search for meaning

Arianna Sforzini

Feb 26, 20219 min read

Science & Research

What is this pain all about? Mental illness, philosophy and the search for meaning

My first encounter with mental illness was in books. I have been a researcher and a teacher in philosophy for about ten years and I...

Anna Bogdanova

Feb 24, 20214 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

Sleep to remember (and forget)

Sleeping constitutes around one-third of our lifetime. To put this statistic into perspective, if you live until 70 years old, around 27...

Why I decided to become a writer - and continued to do so after becoming a mum

Hattie Gladewell

Feb 22, 20214 min read

The Hattie Gladwell Column

Why I decided to become a writer - and continued to do so after becoming a mum

I was 14 years old when I decided I wanted to become a writer. I took media studies as one of my subjects for GCSE, and I remember my...

Owen Jones

Feb 19, 20216 min read

Science & Research

Complex Trauma: A Spectre in Psychiatry

I graduated from my BSc in Psychology in 2020. At the time I was so focused on my research project which focused on trauma and...

Julia Jamka

Feb 17, 20217 min read

Society & World News

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...

Ahmed Ashraf

Feb 12, 20217 min read

Science & Research

When the Healer Cries (Part 2 of 2)

Addressing doctors’ suicide and mental health in the world of medicine. The path of becoming and being a doctor is challenging. We may...

Mental Health and Wellbeing for Young People in a Pandemic: Advice from a mother and a youth worker

Jenni Osborn

Feb 10, 20215 min read

Lived Experience

Mental Health and Wellbeing for Young People in a Pandemic: Advice from a mother and a youth worker

As we make our way through lockdown 3 there is good reason to be feeling all manner of emotions. The upheaval we have all felt has come...

Being a working mother made me feel like a failure - now I realise it was postnatal depression

Hattie Gladewell

Feb 8, 20213 min read

The Hattie Gladwell Column

Being a working mother made me feel like a failure - now I realise it was postnatal depression

When I was pregnant with my son, I turned to online baby groups and motherhood websites for support and to learn what I was in for when...

The Science of Stress: How Does Stress Affect Young Minds?

Dr. Mia Eisenstadt

Feb 5, 20219 min read

Science & Research

The Science of Stress: How Does Stress Affect Young Minds?

This week (1st-7th Feb, 2021) is Children’s Mental Health Week. This year, the event has special significance because it falls in the...

Why I’m Zooming out of virtual counselling

Anonymous

Feb 3, 20215 min read

Science & Research

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...

Elizabeth Taylor

Feb 1, 20215 min read

Arts & Culture

Brain Waves

The online arts movement helping brain injury survivors to tell their stories through music During the pandemic, we have adapted to new...

Ahmed Ashraf

Jan 29, 20215 min read

Science & Research

When the Healer Cries (Part 1 of 2)

Addressing doctors’ suicide and mental health in the world of medicine. Suicide is not a subject that is talked about as openly or easily...

Can pregnancy-related factors increase the risk of ADHD in children?

Aisha Ali

Jan 27, 20215 min read

Science & Research

Can pregnancy-related factors increase the risk of ADHD in children?

Attention-deficit and hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is a common mental disorder typically detected in childhood and is characterised by a...

Andrea Du Preez

Jan 22, 20215 min read

Science & Research

Are all stressors of equal measure?

Depression is a serious condition that interferes with your ability to work, sleep, to interact with friends and family. In fact, it...

Finding Tranquillity in the Raging Sea of Suicide

neurominded

Jan 15, 20216 min read

Lived Experience

Finding Tranquillity in the Raging Sea of Suicide

Drowning — Swimming through the Crushing Weight of Suicide What is the Problem? — a Mountain to Overcome but a Mountain Nonetheless...

Ayahuasca, magic mushrooms and psychiatry: an interview with Dr. Simon Ruffell

Carolina Estevao

Jan 13, 20216 min read

Science & Research

Ayahuasca, magic mushrooms and psychiatry: an interview with Dr. Simon Ruffell

Psychedelics, plant medicine and ceremonies in the Amazon jungle — could this be the future of psychiatry? Ayahuasca, a brew of plants...

Living in the Shadow of Bipolar: My Experience of Diagnostic Overshadowing

Angela Merriott

Jan 8, 20216 min read

Lived Experience

Living in the Shadow of Bipolar: My Experience of Diagnostic Overshadowing

I am 60 years old. I have lived with bipolar disorder since I was 21. It has been a difficult and bumpy ride. Looking back, it seems...

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