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My name is Milad and I was born in Kabul in 1996. The same year that the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in a bitterly fought civil...

The days of lockdowns ending were always going to be tricky. Is it too soon? Will there be another one (spoiler: probably)? Can we stop...

Over recent weeks there has understandably been a huge amount of media coverage of the situation in Afghanistan. This has focused on the...

Nearly 42 years of violent conflict is driving a growing mental health crisis in Afghanistan. I am an Afghan doctor currently working as...

...but everything has changed this week An interview with Zarghona Rassa, the Chair of the British Afghan Women Society In the middle of...

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...