On Love & Loss of Our Flora & Fauna
From despair to action Spring is coming. A strong sun warms my back and burns away the morning’s frost. One of the many things I love...
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Swati Singh
- Feb 23
- 5 min
The Rollercoaster of Self-Esteem
We all have struggled with self-esteem issues at some point in our lives. Our perception of our own competence gets skewed. We start...
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Zuzanna Zajkowska
- Jan 12
- 4 min
Post-holiday blues - the psychology of endings and new beginnings
Feeling sad, apathetic, deflated, or irritable is not uncommon after a holiday period, especially Christmas. And of course, there are...
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Natali Simmonds
- Jan 4
- 5 min
New Years Resolutions That Won't Affect Your Mental Health
Another new year, another new New Year’s resolution. With every January comes a fresh new start, a new beginning, an opportunity to...
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Catherine Shuttleworth
- Dec 23, 2022
- 5 min
How to Navigate Food and Your Body This Holiday Season
Christmas is fast approaching, with just a couple of days to go until many of us are sat around tables with mismatched chairs from...
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Cole Sommeling
- Dec 14, 2022
- 5 min
Relationship OCD: It's Not What You Think
My name is Cole Sommeling, and I am a placement student working at King’s College and currently getting my BSc in psychology. I’ve been...
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Cole Sommeling
- Dec 1, 2022
- 4 min
Quiet Firing: The Employer's Answer to Quiet Quitting
It seems nowadays both employees and employers alike now prefer making their decisions quietly and discreetly. At least when it comes to...
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Caitlin Pentland
- Nov 23, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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Hritika Shrestha
- Nov 15, 2022
- 5 min
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...
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Subeyda Ahmed
- Nov 10, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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Carmine Pariante
- Nov 8, 2022
- 5 min
#BeReal Carmine, you are old!
Is the new social media platform BeReal good for mental health? Not for mine. It’s my fourth day of online activity on the ‘BeReal’...
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Courtney Worrell
- Nov 1, 2022
- 5 min
"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...
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Kevin Singer
- Oct 25, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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Rose Jeppesen
- Sep 21, 2022
- 4 min
How much screen-time is too much for the youngest?
Thoughts on guidelines from a mother and researcher As a mother of two small children, the subject of screen time is something that often...
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Yuliya Kovalchuk
- Aug 11, 2022
- 4 min
How are Ukrainian mental health workers responding to a collective crisis?
Better me: smartphone wellbeing support The stats are overwhelming: back in 2017, 84.6 % of Ukrainians from the general population...
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Eric Shattuck
- Jul 28, 2022
- 5 min
Social and Cultural Influences on Immunity: Sketching Social Immunology
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted fundamental truths about infectious disease in humans. First, the makeup of our societies helps...
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Natali Simmonds
- Jul 27, 2022
- 5 min
Why the Superwoman Archetype is Damaging for Women
It’s a sunny day and I’m sitting in the living room with my eldest daughter reading her end of year school report. She’s worried about...
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Gargi Mandal
- Jul 5, 2022
- 5 min
Promoting student mental health at university
Promoting student mental health at university necessitates changes in students’ educational and residential environments: A conversation...
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Swati Singh
- Jun 29, 2022
- 5 min
Recharging with Solitude
Solitude is a widely misunderstood concept, often classified as loneliness, and a depressed state of being; however, it is proven that...
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Subeyda Ahmed
- Jun 15, 2022
- 3 min
The Importance of Self-Worth & How to Increase it
Disclaimer : I am not a scientist nor a psychologist with a deep understanding about this topic, but merely a psychology student...
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Emily Waters
- Jun 1, 2022
- 4 min
Mastering The Art of Hygge
Hygge (pronounced “hoo-gah”) is a concept that originated in Danish culture that focuses on living with a sense of comfort, coziness, and...
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Catherine Shuttleworth
- May 11, 2022
- 5 min
I Find Comfort in Striving for Perfection - Even Though It Does Me More Harm Than Good
One of the few constants in my life has been the constant need and desire to be perfect, or at least to be perceived as perfect. But what...
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Timothy Matthews
- May 10, 2022
- 5 min
The long shadow of loneliness in adolescence
The long shadow of loneliness in adolescence Loneliness can be understood as a painful emotion that arises when the quality or quantity...
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Rubbia Ali
- May 5, 2022
- 4 min
The Experiences of Black Families amidst a Double Pandemic
The Experiences of Black Families amidst a Double Pandemic I am a research worker on the BeFINE research study, and I feel very...
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