From Adversity to Inspiration
You have probably had to deal with quite a few challenges over the years. Most of us have. Sure, some people seem to have been dealt a...
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Catherine Shuttleworth
- Feb 1
- 5 min
How my Friends and Family Supported Me During Eating Disorder Recovery
Trigger warning: This blog talks about eating disorders and disordered eating. Eating disorders have long been a rather taboo topic, and...
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Clara Stein
- Jan 31
- 4 min
Finding the PhD-life-balance
A personal account I’ve been studying Psychology for over five years, first as an undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh, then...
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Ricky Carroll
- Jan 18
- 4 min
Losing My Dad
My Dad was such an interesting character. I remember as a kid, he had this incredibly soft side, where he would bounce me on his knee and...
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Lindsay Hall
- Jan 11
- 3 min
I found freedom from my mind…
Trigger Warning: This blog discusses sexual violence, rape and self-harm, which some readers may find distressing. My name is Lindsay and...
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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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Ana-Maria Amato
- Dec 21, 2022
- 3 min
Curating Art in a Mental Health Setting
My experiences in the mental health service, and my experiences as an artist, have led me to develop new ways to engage people in...
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Rachel Kelly
- Dec 8, 2022
- 4 min
The Therapeutic Power of Poetry: My Personal Reflections
Can poetry help our mental health? While I’m convinced of this, so much so that I’ve written a new book on the links between verse and...
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Emily Zarevich
- Dec 7, 2022
- 5 min
How Shirley Jackson's Agoraphobia Affected Her Writing
I’m an English instructor, so of course I’ve had the opportunity to teach horror writer Shirley Jackson’s legendary short story “The...
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Elizabeth Taylor
- Nov 24, 2022
- 5 min
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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Emily Rose Burley
- Nov 16, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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Caitlin Pentland
- Sep 7, 2022
- 6 min
The Cost of 'Calories-on-Menus' for Eating Disorders
Trigger warning: This blog talks about eating disorders and disordered eating. Due to the context of this blog post, I will refrain from...
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Maryam Matter
- Sep 5, 2022
- 4 min
Imposter Syndrome and How We Can Overcome It - Part 2
Am I a Fraud? — Imposter Syndrome and How We Can Overcome It (Part 2 of 2) This is part 2 of a 2-part series, where we will explore the...
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Maryam Matter
- Aug 17, 2022
- 6 min
Imposter Syndrome and How We Can Overcome It - Part 1
Am I a Fraud? - Imposter Syndrome and How We Can Overcome It (Part 1 of 2) Have you ever thought ‘am I truly deserving of my position?’,...
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Julia Tannenbaum
- Aug 10, 2022
- 6 min
Recovering from Anorexia Empowered Me to Reject the Norm and Live My Truth
Trigger warning: This blog discusses personal experiences of anorexia. I am an author and mental health advocate who has lived with an...
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Lowri Llewelyn
- Aug 3, 2022
- 5 min
Self-harm is so much more complex than attention seeking
Trigger warning: This blog discusses personal experiences of self-harm. Disclaimer: While this blog shares personal accounts of...
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Anna Sri
- Aug 2, 2022
- 5 min
The NHS and Training Programmes are inflexible for doctors who are different: This must change now.
“Anna has openly shared in a variety of settings her mental health difficulties. This has led me at times to be concerned about her...
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Ria Fay
- Jul 22, 2022
- 5 min
Many Years in the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive
Content Warning: This blog is about mental health, OCD and intrusive thoughts of a violent and sexually harmful nature that some may find...
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Catherine Shuttleworth
- Jun 23, 2022
- 5 min
I Have Body Dysmorphia
Here's How I Improve My Body Image Trigger warning: The following blog contains discussions about body dysmorphia and explicit...
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Gemma Harris
- Jun 22, 2022
- 4 min
Resisting mental health medication for fear of being seen as weak
It’s late 2018 and I’m clutching the box of antidepressants (that belong to a group of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake...
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Emily Bashforth
- Jun 8, 2022
- 4 min
We Need to Stop Romanticising Eating Disorders
I have lived with an eating disorder since around the age of 12 and it has slowly destroyed my life up until my age now of 22. My illness...
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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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Kristi Sawyer
- May 4, 2022
- 6 min
Midwifery, Mental Health and Maternal Journal - an interview with Laura Godfrey-Isaacs
Midwifery, Mental Health and Maternal Journal — an interview with Laura Godfrey-Isaacs Given the success of the Maternal Journal project...
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Jodi Pawluski
- Apr 21, 2022
- 4 min
Grandma Brain
I often think of my Grandma, my dad’s mom. I grew up in the same town as my grandparents in the Okanagan Valley of Western Canada, spent...
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