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The first tuning: mother-infant bonding and unseen strains
Nature is full of heart-melting examples of mother-baby relationships, especially, in birds and mammals. However, a parent’s tenderness...

Gina Hernández
Jul 17, 20244 min read


Empowering people through boxing and everyday practices
A conversation with Edson Williams ‘I Am Enough. I am everything I need to succeed.’ This is the message on a circular red piece of paper...

Gargi Mandal
Jul 16, 20245 min read


My Personal Experiences as an Intellectual Disability Psych Star
Psychiatry has been a highlight of my medical school experience. Every psychiatrist I’ve met, every talk and lecture I’ve attended, and...

Megs Grainger
Jul 11, 20245 min read


Becoming A Mother, While Loving an Addict
A story of Self-Empowerment and the Undeniable Love Between Mother and Child

Katie Sanger
Jul 10, 20244 min read


Summer Recipe for Good Mood Foods
We live in uncertain times. The UK has just witnessed an election, wars are being fought, and many of us feel anxious about the state of the world. What better moment than to turn to comfort food? Rather than feel like you must stop comfort eating, the nutritionist Alice Mackintosh, with whom I co-wrote The Happy Kitchen: Good Mood Food, taught me to redefine what comfort food is; by adding in healthy substitutions in place of less healthy ones. Our book more broadly summaris

Rachel Kelly
Jul 9, 20243 min read


An Insight into the Pressures on Young Athletes
An interview with netball player, Holly Jones. As many of us immerse ourselves in an exciting summer of sport (Euros24, Tour de France,...

Seb Woods
Jul 4, 20245 min read


Can we predict psychosis by studying cognition?
The PRECOGNITION Project In this piece, we are excited to introduce a new project which we have been working on, called PRECOGNITION. We...

Barbora Rehák Bučková
Jul 3, 20245 min read


The Whole Picture: Integrating Mental and Physical Health
Our new MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface offered by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at...

Giulia Lombardo
Jul 2, 20244 min read


Caro — A Short Story
Author’s Note: We are told repeatedly by mental health care professionals and Facebook inspirational posts across the board that our past...

Emily Zarevich
Jun 28, 202415 min read


“Gay” was never a bad word - it’s part of who I am
When I started high school in 1997, the world was a very different place. The internet had only just begun entering people’s homes,...

Sam Thomas
Jun 27, 20245 min read


How my one line a day journal gives me perspective amidst change
I’m lucky to have a partner who is an incredible gift giver. Throughout the year, she’ll take note of the things I want but don’t feel...

Aleenah Ansari
Jun 26, 20244 min read


Appearing on TV changed my life for the better
Between 1 to 2% of the world’s population has vitiligo. I’m one of those people. I developed vitiligo, an autoimmune condition where the...

Natalie Ambersley
Jun 25, 20245 min read


It’s Taylor Swift’s ‘Era’ and we’re just living in it
Taylor Swift’s world-famous Eras Tour arrives at the Wembley Stadium in London tonight. While I am a ‘Swiftie’ (A Taylor Swift fan), I...

Riddhi Laijawala
Jun 21, 20244 min read


Queer in Nigeria: Mental health struggles
Trigger warning: this article contains mentions of violence. Being an LGBTQ+ Nigerian, one of the most discriminated identities in the...

Obinna Tony-Francis Ochem
Jun 20, 20244 min read


Song in the City: Taking Classical Music out of its comfort zone
I have been a trustee of 'Song in the City' for nearly 10 years now. I was initially drawn to their series of lunchtime concerts in the...

Meli Hatzihrysidis
Jun 19, 20244 min read


How I’ve overcome queer shame by helping others
Growing up LGBTQ+, I always felt different, like I didn’t belong. Constantly feeling like I didn't fit in, a lack of representation and...

Tilly Robinson
Jun 18, 20245 min read


Understanding mental health in LGBTQ+ people
Research on biological and psychosocial factors in mental health disparities offers clues to reducing the mental health burden among...

Dr Qazi Rahman
Jun 14, 20244 min read


Has the $1.8 trillion Wellness Industry commodified mental wellbeing?
Commodified = to treat or consider something as a commodity (= a product can that be bought or sold) - Cambridge Dictionary More than...

Courtney Worrell
Jun 13, 20245 min read


American Fiction vs Non-Fiction
Exploring the conflicts portrayed within the award-winning film and what it reveals about America’s fraught relationship with race and...

Seyi Osobamiro
Jun 12, 20245 min read


A deep dive into the concept of influencing
Like many people in their 20s, I have a TikTok account (you can learn more about this social media platform in this article). While I...

Riddhi Laijawala
Jun 11, 20244 min read


Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry: A PsychStar perspective
Perusing the Royal College of Psychiatrists website, I stumbled upon the faculty page for 'Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry'. I had...

Lauren Pereira-Greene
Jun 6, 20244 min read


How to keep moving if you are feeling down or depressed
How can someone who is depressed, and at the bottom of their bed, become more active?

Rachel Kelly
Jun 5, 20245 min read


Birth Trauma and Mental Health - the 'Postcode Lottery'
As a researcher in perinatal psychiatry (working with women who are pregnant or have recently had a baby), unfortunately I was not...

Kristi Priestley
Jun 4, 20245 min read


Dimmi Qualcosa
Nota dell’editore: Siamo onorati che Simonetta Agnello Hornby abbia scelto Inspire the Mind per pubblicare questo testo teatrale inedito...

Simonetta Agnello Hornby
May 31, 202431 min read
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