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The beneficial effects of exercise on both mind and body have been public knowledge for years. Some of these benefits can be seen in...

Six months after graduating from University and starting my career at BMW UK, my world was torn apart when I found out a close friend...

How A Humble TV Theme Saved My Life Trigger warning: The following blog contains mention of suicidal thoughts and ideation, which some...

A huge issue facing us following the outbreak of COVID-19 is the number of people suffering from ongoing symptoms or long-COVID. Over...

Giving away everything in search of something more I tossed my backpack into the back and climbed into the passenger seat. It was a...

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...

This article is a double debut, both in discussing my OCD as a journalist, and writing about the disorder in relation to my poetry....

Trigger warning: this blog discusses mental health struggles and suicidal thoughts. Even though I’m a journalist by trade, until now, I...

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...

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...

I was working as an assistant teacher in English in my hometown Qingdao, in China’s eastern Shandong province, during the summer before...

Sharing a part of yourself is never easy. Raising awareness for matters that are not widely discussed, especially amongst young women,...

Aristotele once said that “the aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inner significance; for this,...

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...

Modelling is exciting until you experience it yourself. There are many hidden agendas that made me question the industry itself. I...

Bipolar disorder is a serious mental health condition that severely affects a person’s mood. It is a relapsing-remitting condition. It...

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...

Sleeping constitutes around one-third of our lifetime. To put this statistic into perspective, if you live until 70 years old, around 27...

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...

“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...

Drowning — Swimming through the Crushing Weight of Suicide What is the Problem? — a Mountain to Overcome but a Mountain Nonetheless...

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...

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...

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...