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Recognizing & Healing the Inner-Child The world of adults believes that they’ve grown up and left the silly child they once were behind....

Under Attack: Associations between childhood trauma and inflammation in adulthood Trigger warning: This blog discusses topics of...

How do you maintain recovery from an eating disorder, even when it gets boring? When we talk about recovery from an eating disorder, we...

All my life, I have been told I was just a picky eater. Even as a toddler, I struggled to eat and drink without gagging. Doctors told my...

Eating Disorders in University Students: A snapshot of the prevalence, recognition and ways to seek help Do you have any food rules, such...

Escape from Ukraine: Mental health in displaced populations. Since my days as head of Wellcome’s History of Medicine programme...

Do eating disorders impact the brain? Eating disorders affect the lives of so many… Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating...

This is Going to Hurt — But Shouldn’t Have to: An interview with Dr Ally Jaffee Trigger warning: This blog contains discussions of mental...

LGBTQ+ Mental Health: Revisiting the past to understand the present Recalling and naming the collective oppressed history of LGBTQ+...

Clozapine: Knowing its flaws to optimize its potential When people find out what my job is, it is frequent that I hear jokes about me...

Losing a Loved One Losing a parent is a grief-filled traumatic experience. We as humans understand that losing loved ones is inevitable....

Anxiety in families: Exploring the causes As a Research Associate at King’s College London, my work is focused on trying to understand...

An under-appreciated harm arising from burning fossil fuels is the mental health effects of pollution. This is one of the issues explored...

LGBTQI+ mental health during the pandemic My name is Paul Gorczynski. I am a psychologist who conducts research relating to various...

Looking through a therapeutic lens As time progresses since the pandemic struck, we have found ourselves plunged into a new world that...

When the name does matter The importance of definitions in treatment-resistant depression and a new published guideline for clinical...

Author’s Note: This article is part of a collaboration between my colleague Clare Liedstrand and I, both researchers working in...

International Day of Women & Girls in Science: My Journey and the Women Who Inspired It Author’s Note: This article is part of a...

‘Growing Together’ is the theme of this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week, which is taking place between the 7th and 13th of February...

How History Helped Us Grow into the Future I was astounded by the depth of my autistic son’s knowledge about naval history on a recent...

“Stop being so difficult” — Why we need to rethink puberty Many mental health issues, like depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia...

“The Iron Forest” — building the walls to scar the nature If I could bring one thing from my hometown, it would be the fresh air of the...

How our genes can help us to treat depression and an exciting new development Most of us know what depression is, but how many of us know...

The Comfort Book by Matt Haig: A hug in 260 pages When I picked up The Comfort Book this summer, at an unremarkable Waterstones in...