Mind over matter - a personal reflection on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
A huge issue facing us following the outbreak of COVID-19 is the number of people suffering from ongoing symptoms or long-COVID. Over...
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Nik Monastere
- Jun 10, 2021
- 4 min
Minimalism and Adventure
Giving away everything in search of something more I tossed my backpack into the back and climbed into the passenger seat. It was a...
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Chloe Faulkner
- Jun 9, 2021
- 6 min
How lockdown changed my life for the better
And several important lessons it taught me. 2020 was one of the most challenging years we’ve ever faced not only here in the UK, but...
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Anita Slater
- Jun 2, 2021
- 4 min
How poetry has eased my Pure OCD
This article is a double debut, both in discussing my OCD as a journalist, and writing about the disorder in relation to my poetry....
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Lowri Llewelyn
- May 26, 2021
- 5 min
Why I deprive myself of medication for my mental health
Trigger warning: this blog discusses mental health struggles and suicidal thoughts. Even though I’m a journalist by trade, until now, I...
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- May 20, 2021
- 5 min
What I've learnt about 'madness'
I can’t remember when I first started worrying about the idea of ‘going mad’, but by my late teens it had become such a deep-rooted fear...
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Caitlyn Fulton
- Apr 30, 2021
- 3 min
Singing Out: Music and Mental Health
I was first introduced to musical theatre when I was about 8 by my Papa — he had the Les Misérables soundtrack and after finding myself...
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Ivy Zhu
- Apr 28, 2021
- 4 min
It Is Not What You Thought — Stigma around Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
I was working as an assistant teacher in English in my hometown Qingdao, in China’s eastern Shandong province, during the summer before...
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Christina Patsourakou
- Apr 21, 2021
- 6 min
It is all in your head
Sharing a part of yourself is never easy. Raising awareness for matters that are not widely discussed, especially amongst young women,...
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Francesco Catania
- Apr 14, 2021
- 5 min
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,...
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Paige Mckinlay
- Apr 9, 2021
- 4 min
Self-expression and how I found an outlet in musical theatre
From a young age, I always wanted to perform. As a toddler, my mum put me in all of the ‘little girl’ classes — ballet, gym-bunnies, the...
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Aisha Ali
- Mar 31, 2021
- 6 min
How My Modelling Career Ended Before It Even Began
Modelling is exciting until you experience it yourself. There are many hidden agendas that made me question the industry itself. I...
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Angela Merriott
- Mar 24, 2021
- 7 min
When Two Poles Collide: A Personal Account of a Mixed Affective State
Bipolar disorder is a serious mental health condition that severely affects a person’s mood. It is a relapsing-remitting condition. It...
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- Mar 5, 2021
- 6 min
Letting Go of My Eating Disorder Feels Like Mourning the Loss of a Loved One
I was 12 years old when I started starving myself. By the time I was 13, I had a full eating disorder. My eating disorder has lasted...
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- Feb 24, 2021
- 4 min
Sleep to remember (and forget)
Sleeping constitutes around one-third of our lifetime. To put this statistic into perspective, if you live until 70 years old, around 27...
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- Feb 10, 2021
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Mental Health and Wellbeing for Young People in a Pandemic: Advice from a mother and a youth worker
As we make our way through lockdown 3 there is good reason to be feeling all manner of emotions. The upheaval we have all felt has come...
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Anonymous
- Feb 3, 2021
- 5 min
Why I’m Zooming out of virtual counselling
“Hello? Can you hear me?” was not something I thought I would be saying in the middle of my counselling session. Yet here I was, in my...
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- Jan 15, 2021
- 6 min
Finding Tranquillity in the Raging Sea of Suicide
Drowning — Swimming through the Crushing Weight of Suicide What is the Problem? — a Mountain to Overcome but a Mountain Nonetheless...
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Angela Merriott
- Jan 8, 2021
- 6 min
Living in the Shadow of Bipolar: My Experience of Diagnostic Overshadowing
I am 60 years old. I have lived with bipolar disorder since I was 21. It has been a difficult and bumpy ride. Looking back, it seems...
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Caitlin Pentland
- Dec 18, 2020
- 6 min
Recognising good mental health — more than just a tool for recovery
If you could go back in time, what do you wish you had learnt to increase your confidence in navigating your mental health? Being in my...
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- Dec 4, 2020
- 7 min
How to Manage an Eating Disorder in Times of Crisis
Eating disorders thrive in times of crisis. They pounce on any disruption to everyday life and turn your recovery on its head, and I know...
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Courtney Worrell
- Nov 25, 2020
- 8 min
Why Perfectionism May Be Damaging for our Mental Health
Before we start to really dive in, I have a bit of a confession to make: I think I’m a perfectionist. Ok, well maybe it wasn’t the...
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Fanni-Laura Mäntylä
- Nov 20, 2020
- 5 min
Major Depressive Disorder - A Patient Perspective to Recovery
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a common but serious mental illness that causes symptoms affecting emotions, thoughts, and daily...
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- Nov 11, 2020
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How words can heal: my journey through depression with the help of poetry
As we adjust to a second lockdown, one musical voice keeps playing in my head: that of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet and...
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