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Trigger warning: This blog discusses personal experiences of self-harm. Disclaimer: While this blog shares personal accounts of...

“Anna has openly shared in a variety of settings her mental health difficulties. This has led me at times to be concerned about her...

Content Warning: This blog is about mental health, OCD and intrusive thoughts of a violent and sexually harmful nature that some may find...

Here's How I Improve My Body Image Trigger warning: The following blog contains discussions about body dysmorphia and explicit...

It’s late 2018 and I’m clutching the box of antidepressants (that belong to a group of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake...

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...