Quiet Firing: The Employer's Answer to Quiet Quitting
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Eco-anxiety is escalating with relentless climate change
As temperatures exceeded a scorching 40°C degrees in parts of the UK this summer, global news channels shared climate crisis stories...
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The status of psychiatric research
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Elizabeth Taylor
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How to Cure Arachnophobia: A Personal Account
Me and my phobia I wasn’t always scared of spiders. I remember being very little and happily letting tiny red spiders run over my hands...
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Justice for Journalism
Words are powerful. They seek to inspire, elicit emotions, and can emerge into making a positive change. All around the world there are...
Caitlin Pentland
- Nov 23
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Quiet Quitting - a controversial trend or valid boundary setting?
You’ve probably seen the expression ‘quiet quitting’ gathering momentum on social media and news outlets. What appeared to start as a...
Swati Singh
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Colourful Minds - Feeling blue or grey?
As I sat on the grass soaking all the dewy fresh green around me in the early morning, I thought to myself, is green the colour of...
Emily Rose Burley
- Nov 16
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Anxiety: Stopping a lapse from becoming a relapse
In my early twenties, I suffered with agoraphobia. Agoraphobia is a fear of crowded places, open spaces, or being in places where it is...
Hritika Shrestha
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The Emoji Phenomenon Taking Over The Workplace
It is no secret that texting has become an integral form of communication in our everyday lives, yet nothing has quite taken the world by...
Subeyda Ahmed
- Nov 10
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Social Media as a positive tool to promote wellbeing in adolescents
The term “mental health” is defined as a state of mental wellbeing which allows an individual to help cope with the stressors of life and...
Jodi Pawluski
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After the Storm: Supporting Maternal Mental Health
This is the last blog of our Maternal Mental Health series. For the last six weeks, dear reader, we have discussed the often...
Carmine Pariante
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#BeReal Carmine, you are old!
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Colin Martin
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Reflections on postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder: from theory to clinical practice
This is the fifth week of our Maternal Mental Health series, which is dedicated to postnatal post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We...
Becky Fisher
- Nov 2
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Surrounded by love, feeling alone: postnatal PTSD
This is the fifth week of our Maternal Mental Health series, which is dedicated to postnatal post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We...
Courtney Worrell
- Nov 1
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"Keep it down, I've got a social hangover" said the introvert
I don’t know about you, but for me, 2022 has flown by. As unprepared as we may feel, November means the holiday period will be with us...
Rachel Jenkins
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Is Suicide Rare in Africa?
How common are suicidal ideation and attempts in Kenya, and what influences them? Trigger warning: The following blog describes research...
Carolina Estevao
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Empowering Parents and Children to Strengthen Their Connection
Welcome to the fourth week of our Maternal Mental Health series. This week I wanted to bring you the perspective of professionals in the...
Carolina Estevao
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Occupational therapy for mothers struggling with their mental health
Learning what the Mother and Baby Unit is like and how do occupational therapists work with mothers and their babies Welcome to the...
Kevin Singer
- Oct 24
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When it comes to mental health, America's schools must do more
By Kevin Singer and Sam Ludlow-Broback Fresh off of a long-drawn pandemic, young Americans are struggling with mental health at startling...
Livia Dyring
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The Surprisingly Comforting Science Behind Grief
Everyone experiences loss at some point. Sooner or later, we all learn what bereavement, an unpleasant but unavoidable part of living,...
Alessandra Biaggi
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Understanding postpartum psychosis: what do we currently know?
Co-written by Katie Hazelgrove. This is the third week of our Maternal Mental Health series, and it is dedicated to Postpartum...
Eve Canavan
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Emerging from the Darkness - Postpartum Psychosis and Me
This is the third week of our Maternal Mental Health series, which is dedicated to Postpartum Psychosis —a rare but extremely severe...
Lilla Porffy
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Time to Reassess Cognitive Testing: Using Simulated Environments to Assess Real-world Function
Intellectual ability, such as thinking, reasoning, and remembering, is tricky to measure. This may be the reason why no major advancement...
Yuri Milaneschi
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Is this Long-COVID?
I am a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry of Amsterdam UMC in...