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Since the emergence of social media, debates have been consistently sparked about the line drawn between moderate use and disengagement...

Spirituality and science are considered irreconcilable by many. The former is an intensely subjective, first-person experience; the...

Sports. Physical Activity. An unspoken connection. A safe space.

When does a joy become a pain? How does something we love turn into something we dread? Why can something so helpful become risky? These...

In April of 2022, I started taking aerial arts classes, a form of dance originating from circus arts, where you use a hanging apparatus.

My name is Laura, I have never written a blog post in my life and if I had to define myself with a simple description, I would say that I...

The romanticisation of mental illness isn’t a new phenomenon. In fact, it’s something that defined a lot of my teen social media experience

I am 63 years old. I have had bipolar since I was 21. I have experienced one prolonged manic episode, many profound depressive episodes, and

It is no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic changed the world on a global scale. As individuals, we experienced huge changes to our daily...

The historical journey of a retired professor. I was appointed to the Chair of Psychiatry at Newcastle University in 1990. I was involved...

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a behavioural disorder marked by instability in relationships, exaggerated fear of abandonment,...

I was a child morbidly obsessed with anything spooky, landing me with the affectionate nickname ‘ghost girl’ during my primary school years.

I've been captivated by flamenco since I graduated from the Laban Centre London where I trained in contemporary dance and ballet in the '80s

From despair to action Spring is coming. A strong sun warms my back and burns away the morning’s frost. One of the many things I love...

Photo by Sydney Sims on Unsplash It was May 2019 and I’d recently turned forty. I didn’t feel right. In fact, I felt so little like myself I went to see a doctor. ‘I can’t sleep,’ I said to her. ‘Everything overwhelms me. I’m on the verge of tears all day, my mood swings are erratic. I have pins and needles in my hands and feet and sometimes my face goes numb. I get headaches and feel faint. I think I’m perimenopausal or deficient in something.’ She asked me some questions, I

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...

Trigger warning: This blog talks about eating disorders and disordered eating. Eating disorders have long been a rather taboo topic, and...

A personal account I’ve been studying Psychology for over five years, first as an undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh, then...

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...

Trigger Warning: This blog discusses sexual violence, rape and self-harm, which some readers may find distressing. My name is Lindsay and...

Christmas is fast approaching, with just a couple of days to go until many of us are sat around tables with mismatched chairs from...

My experiences in the mental health service, and my experiences as an artist, have led me to develop new ways to engage people in...

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 our emotional wellbeing, I wanted to know if there was any research which attests to poetry’s power to heal our minds. I had my own personal reasons to see whether there was any scientific data on the subject, because it’s not an exaggeration to say that poetry saved my life. In my thirties, I fell so ill with severe depression that I went to

I’m an English instructor, so of course I’ve had the opportunity to teach horror writer Shirley Jackson’s legendary short story “The...