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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,...

Christina Patsourakou
Apr 20, 20216 min read


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,...

Francesco Catania
Apr 13, 20215 min read


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...

Paige Mckinlay
Apr 8, 20214 min read


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...

Aisha Ali
Mar 30, 20216 min read


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...

Angela Merriott
Mar 24, 20217 min read


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...

Emily Bashforth
Mar 5, 20216 min read


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...

Anna Bogdanova
Feb 24, 20214 min read


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...

Jenni Osborn
Feb 10, 20215 min read


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...

Anonymous
Feb 3, 20215 min read


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...

neurominded
Jan 15, 20216 min read


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...

Angela Merriott
Jan 8, 20216 min read


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...

Caitlin Pentland
Dec 18, 20206 min read


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...

Emily Bashforth
Dec 4, 20207 min read


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...

Courtney Worrell
Nov 25, 20208 min read


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...

Fanni-Laura Mäntylä
Nov 20, 20205 min read


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...

Rachel Kelly
Nov 11, 20204 min read


Culture S.H.O.C.K: Salut Hålla Olá Ciao Kumusta
Salut, Hålla, Olá, Ciao, Kumusta: these are all ways to say ‘hello’ in various languages. The first letters also happen to spell out the...

Sofia Cussotto
Sep 22, 20206 min read


Lack of symmetry — my mental health mapped out in 180 days
Mothers Who Make is an international initiative providing mothers and makers peer support. It has been a saving grace for me during the...

Rebecca J Burman
Aug 5, 20209 min read


Lockdown awakening: Embracing the complexities
The Lockdown experience from a neurodivergent perspective: Pre-lockdown a perpetual rhythm of Go! Push, rest, repeat across different...

Natasha Trotman
Jul 9, 20205 min read


Mental Health and my vision for the future
My name is Grace Gatera. I am 27 years old. In those years, I have attempted suicide twice, and have had countless episodes of panic...

Grace Gatera
Jul 2, 20204 min read


Abecedary of a Pandemic
A is for apocalypse — an uncovering. As we create alternative approaches to actions it is as if we are planting an acorn amidst...

Felice Salmon
Jun 11, 20204 min read


A Teenager's Experience of the Coronavirus Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on many lives, causing disruption globally. As an 18-year-old student, I would like...

Kiran Kuri
May 28, 20204 min read


Poetry for a new fulfilment in the Coronavirus
In a famous episode reported in the book If this is a man, Italian writer Primo Levi recalls himself speaking with another prisoner in...

Anna Maria di Brina
May 7, 20204 min read


Hope through unsealed blinds
“We live in unprecedented times”. It’s been said so much, the phrase has lost its meaning. Lockdown brings its challenges, but it has...

Elizabeth Appiah-Kusi
Apr 30, 20204 min read
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