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Why I'm boycotting Love Island this year - and every year after
I used to love Love Island. I remember discovering it at season two, and binge-watched the whole of series one just so that I was caught up on all of the gossip and the drama. I understand why people love the show — it’s a distraction from real life. Beautiful people lining up opposite other beautiful people to pick and choose who they fancy the most. We sit and stare at our screens as the drama unfolds each night at 9pm, an escape from the realities we are living. Especially

Hattie Gladewell
Jul 12, 20213 min read


How Writing Fiction Can Help Your Mental Health
Consider processing and strengthening your mental health by letting your creativity flourish Once upon a time in a land far away — also...

Holly Garcia
Jun 4, 20215 min read


Art & Mental Health in Conversation: An interview with Ukrainian Artist Margo Sarkisova
Art & Mental Health in Conversation: An interview with Ukrainian Artist Margo Sarkisova The Art Unit x Inspire the Mind This interview...

Maria Kashchenko
May 23, 20216 min read


The Well-Documented Mental Health Crisis of Ann Walker and Anne Lister
Those of you who have read my previous two blogs for Inspire the Mind, first on “Glass Delusion” and then on the physician Francis...

Emily Zarevich
May 18, 20216 min read


My personal therapeutic photography as a response to adversity: how portrait and self-portrait could
Aristotele once said that “the aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inner significance; for this,...

Francesco Catania
Apr 14, 20215 min read


Where words fail, Music speaks: Dementia and the Power of Music
I am a junior doctor keen to explore the meaningful connection between my two personal passions, the arts and health. Can the arts be...

Annabel Amber Pilecka
Mar 17, 20215 min read


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

Elizabeth Taylor
Feb 1, 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


Culture S.H.O.C.K: Salut Hålla Olá Ciao Kumusta
Salut, Hålla, Olá, Ciao, Kumusta: these are all ways to say ‘hello’ in various languages. The first letters also happen to spell out the...

Sofia Cussotto
Sep 23, 20206 min read


Beautiful, healthy minds? Mathematics and mental health beyond the stereotypes
“A beautiful mind” is the title of the critically acclaimed, unauthorised biography of the mathematician John Nash, who famously made...

Karim Lekadir
Aug 19, 20204 min read


Lack of symmetry — my mental health mapped out in 180 days
Mothers Who Make is an international initiative providing mothers and makers peer support. It has been a saving grace for me during the...

Rebecca J Burman
Aug 5, 20209 min read


Lockdown awakening: Embracing the complexities
The Lockdown experience from a neurodivergent perspective: Pre-lockdown a perpetual rhythm of Go! Push, rest, repeat across different...

Natasha Trotman
Jul 10, 20205 min read


Inspiring Women: Baroness Deborah Bull and how the arts can support science
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life” said the painter Pablo Picasso. In the last few months, this quote came to my...

Etta Nettis
Jul 1, 20208 min read


ON NICK DRAKE, TRACEY EMIN, AND WHY ART IS SO GOOD FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH…
I have wanted to work in Clinical Psychology for as long as I can remember. Being able to connect with people and offer emotional support...

Ellen Lambert
Nov 13, 20197 min read


LET’S KICK OFF YHE WORLD’S LARGEST STUDY INTO ARTS AND HEALTH!
Singing and dancing is not something you routinely associate with our Parliamentarians — unless you think this expression applies to the...

Inspire the Mind
Oct 19, 20196 min read


Diet and Exercise for Melancholy: Throwback to The 18th Century
Many may have viewed nutritional psychiatry as a new interest in the field of medicine, but it was actually an age-old remedy along with...

Jane Chang
May 1, 20195 min read
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