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The Mosaic Edges of an Afghanistan in Trauma The sense of time has stopped. The monumental images of Taliban standing where hopes,...

As a humanitarian, I have always wanted to focus on making a change and get talking about topics that are often ignored. This is one of...

When I think about the word optimism, the first word that often comes to my mind is ‘positivity’. I conjure up an idea of someone who...

In 2012, one year after the London riots, I wrote a blog for the Huffington Post UK, and longer academic paper, where I tried to...

Is the pressure of competitive sport flattening athletes’ passion and hindering their mental health? Foolish, Wise, Fearful, or Brave?...

How can psychology help us to treat long covid? (Part two of two) You might have caught part one of this blog piece two days ago, where I...

COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the UK — can we blame vaccine hesitancy? COVID vaccination programmes are underway all over the world. The UK...

Psychedelic drugs were not mentioned to me when training as a psychiatrist, as far as I remember. Perhaps they were, in passing, but...

The Commodification of Pride & its Impact on LGBTQ+ Mental Health

In A World Apt For Escapism, Why Stay? The world is brimming with content. Video games, books, movies, articles, social media...

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...

Why we need to talk about black mental health As a young, black researcher at the beginning of a career in mental health research,...

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...

On the road to reframing the narrative on mental health following the COVID-19 outbreak When I started writing this, it was mental health...

I was born a few months after the Columbine shooting. I always lived in a world where school shootings were normal Disclaimer: This blog...

The opportunities and dangers of predicting mental health using social media: should one status reveal the other? It’s time to have a...

Bans Off Our Bodies: A Californian’s perspective on abortion rights Trigger warning: The following blog contains discussions about...

Endless SOS cries on Twitter pleading for oxygen, essential medicines and hospital beds are deafening. These aren’t calls just from...

In the UK, COVID-19 restrictions have begun to ease from March 8th, 2021 after a punishing 3rd lockdown during the British winter. The...

A conversation on women’s safety and the potential to make change At 9pm on the 3rd of March 2021, Sarah Everard left a friend’s house in...

It goes without saying, this pandemic has been hard on us all. Not being able to be with the people you love is tough and it’s not...

I am from the UK, and this means that in just a few short weeks it will be exactly one year since our restrictions began with the first...

Like many others during the early days of March’s first instalment of COVID lockdowns, I too joined the social media craze, TikTok. At...

“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...