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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...

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...

Midwifery, Mental Health and Maternal Journal — an interview with Laura Godfrey-Isaacs Given the success of the Maternal Journal project...

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...

A personal perspective on neurodivergence How would you react if I said you’re neurodiverse? Collectively, you as readers are! As a...

It starts with a casual aside; a set of syllables that should dissolve into the ether like wisps of breath on a mid-winter morning. Yet...

A Tale of Two Countries: An interview with a Russian young mother on the war in Ukraine At Inspire the Mind, we have previously published...

Mania is not your punchline Mania is a misunderstood symptom of bipolar disorder that comes with its unique challenges and, as I’ve...

How do you maintain recovery from an eating disorder, even when it gets boring? When we talk about recovery from an eating disorder, we...

All my life, I have been told I was just a picky eater. Even as a toddler, I struggled to eat and drink without gagging. Doctors told my...

Losing a Loved One Losing a parent is a grief-filled traumatic experience. We as humans understand that losing loved ones is inevitable....

International Day of Women & Girls in Science: My Journey and the Women Who Inspired It Author’s Note: This article is part of a...

How History Helped Us Grow into the Future I was astounded by the depth of my autistic son’s knowledge about naval history on a recent...

Nostalgia as a Sentimental Tool: Are you ready to look back for looking ahead? My name is Dhanishta and I am a writer who has recently...

Gender-gap in training for Assertiveness: Does it have a place in Psychiatry and in clinical practice? As a female British psychiatrist...

The Power of Fake Fires: How Journey Dancing Helped A Grieving Mother Process Her Anger A Grieving Mother’s Retreat All my life I dreamt...

Does lived experience really inform our duty of care in mental health? It is very hard to describe and express mental ill-health to...

Expressing the Mind: reflecting on my experience of writing a blog Some time ago, during an email exchange, I received a suggestion from...

Dealing with Mental Illness on the Road (How the Beats Inspired Me to Live a Life of Purpose and Fulfillment) For me, Jack Kerouac was a...

Any parent can experience mental health difficulties in the perinatal period (from conception to one year following birth), regardless of gender or biological connection to the child. This is common in men with around 1 in 10 fathers experiencing depression and anxiety in the perinatal period. Awareness is growing in relation to the effects that traumatic birth experiences have on fathers, too. But which fathers does this evidence refer to? I am a Reader at the University of

I’m Michael and I’m married to Wes. We met by complete chance in June 2012 at Birmingham Pride no less, both single and not looking for a relationship, and pretty much from our first meeting I knew I’d met someone that was going to take my life in a direction that I’d been waiting for. Four months later we were engaged and in August 2014 we married in front of all our friends and family. We’re Dads to our two children; Talulah is 5, and Duke is 2. Wes also has a 17-year-old d

The Importance of Physical Activity on Your Mental Health: An interview with Michael Watson, MBE In my life, I have battled a gambling addiction and a brain tumour — and alongside these I experienced depression. Exercising through those tough times has helped me focus and keeps me moving forward. The British ex-boxer Michael Watson, who uses exercise as a tool to manage his mental health, was a hero of mine as a youngster. Seeing how he has dealt with adversity encouraged me

Learning to live with trauma Photo taken by Jamie Cowen, in his Mother-in-Law’s garden where he and his wife stayed for a while after the loss of their son Hi. I’m Jamie. At the time of writing this, I’m 43 years old, living in north London with Kath, my wife, and our two kids Jacob, nearly 12, and Ella, 8. I work in book publishing, enjoy reading, playing music, a good game of footie and a natter down the pub. So far, so unremarkable. Another unremarkable thing, given that i

Becoming a Father during lock-down and Postnatal Depression Photo by Juan Pablo on Pexels Ever since around 17-years of age I’ve suffered from some form of mental health issue at various stages of becoming a man, mainly anxiety, which I am certain was linked to quite a troubled upbringing in the North East of England. An aggressive, adulterating father, who worked away most of the time, resulted in my parents divorcing when I was 7. My brother and I were then brought up singl