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BEING HAPPY NOT PERFECT
I have spent much of the morning trying to find the right sentence with which to start an article. I am playing with the phrase ‘it is a...

Rachel Kelly
Jun 5, 20193 min read


ESCAPING YOUR COMFORT ZONE
A coldish evening and I am back from a class on how to give a presentation, cradling a mug of celebratory hot chocolate. Even the thought...

Rachel Kelly
May 22, 20194 min read


RELAXING PHYSICALLY
A tense body means a tense mind. Equally, if you are physically relaxed, it is impossible to be anything other than mentally relaxed....

Rachel Kelly
May 15, 20194 min read


Mental Health Through the Lens of Cinema, Episode 3: The ‘Mad Scientist’ Trope
Murderous, unstable, and practising medicine; how do the ways that films present psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience affect both...

Melisa Kose
Apr 24, 20195 min read


BREAKING NEWS: Mental Health Patients Are NOT Criminals
Even if you aren’t picking up a physical paper and flicking through its pages, chances are that on occasion you have been scrolling down...

Courtney Worrell
Apr 10, 20195 min read


Does Food Addiction exist?
The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), a handbook used by healthcare professionals to diagnose mental...

Ellen Lambert
Mar 27, 20196 min read


SEX DIFFERENCES IN MENTAL HEALTH: A REFLECTION
Only a little more than a month ago, on the morning of the 15th of February, I had my usual Italian breakfast in an unusual Airbnb in...

Giulia Lombardo
Mar 20, 20193 min read


Mental Health Through the Lens of Cinema, Episode 2: Merging Genres for a Stronger Story
How is it that Daniel Radcliffe playing an undead amnesiac with superhuman abilities for 97 minutes in Swiss Army Man (2016) is somehow a...

Melisa Kose
Mar 13, 20195 min read


Mental Health Through the Lens of Cinema, Episode 1: The Divide Between Genres
Archaic portrayals of mental illness still bleed into the mainstream media of today. As exemplified by the uninspired notion of “crazy...

Melisa Kose
Mar 1, 20194 min read


Why Mental Health Starts Before We Are Born
Why Mental Health Starts Before We Are Born: The Importance of Mental Wellbeing in Pregnancy Mental health is a growing topic in the...

Kristi Priestley
Mar 1, 20194 min read


Food for thought — recipes for a happy year
You want to be happier in 2019, and new year’s resolutions will not help, so why don’t you try some ‘food for thought’ recipes? I have...

Carmine Pariante
Feb 23, 20183 min read


An Adolescent Boy’s View of Why Adolescent Boys Should Learn How to Express Their Emotions
Everybody is talking about adolescent boys and the fact that they do not express their emotions. In a recent interview, Prince Harry says...

Ashvin Kuri
Aug 24, 20164 min read
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