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Feeling sad, apathetic, deflated, or irritable is not uncommon after a holiday period, especially Christmas. And of course, there are...

Trigger Warning: This blog discusses sexual violence, rape and self-harm, which some readers may find distressing. My name is Lindsay and...

As scientists, we stand on the shoulders of giants, so I think it’s the least we can do to acknowledge them. Many of those who impacted...

Between 2020 to 2021, a total of 79.4 million antidepressant drug items were prescribed to 7.87 million identified patients.

Another new year, another new New Year’s resolution. With every January comes a fresh new start, a new beginning, an opportunity to...

When I was growing up, “Merry Christmas” (or “Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia” in Polish, where I am from), was the traditional way of...

Christmas is fast approaching, with just a couple of days to go until many of us are sat around tables with mismatched chairs from...

Don’t worry, there are no spoilers. I haven’t stepped into a theatre since December 2019. I decided to change that by having a solo...

My experiences in the mental health service, and my experiences as an artist, have led me to develop new ways to engage people in...

What do you think of when you think about food? How does it taste, and what does it smell like? Does it look appealing, and will it...

You call it soccer, we call it football….but the true conversation we should be having is about migrant labourers and LGBTQ+ people. On a...

My name is Cole Sommeling, and I am a placement student working at King’s College and currently getting my BSc in psychology. I’ve been...

What are the costs? We are a group of researchers from different parts of the world. We focus on mental health in the perinatal period,...

Can poetry help our mental health? While I’m convinced of this, so much so that I’ve written a new book on the links between verse and our emotional wellbeing, I wanted to know if there was any research which attests to poetry’s power to heal our minds. I had my own personal reasons to see whether there was any scientific data on the subject, because it’s not an exaggeration to say that poetry saved my life. In my thirties, I fell so ill with severe depression that I went to

I’m an English instructor, so of course I’ve had the opportunity to teach horror writer Shirley Jackson’s legendary short story “The...

The benefits of platform trials This is the second article of a brand-new series inspired by EU-PEARL (EUropean-Patient-cEntric clinicAl...

It seems nowadays both employees and employers alike now prefer making their decisions quietly and discreetly. At least when it comes to...

As temperatures exceeded a scorching 40°C degrees in parts of the UK this summer, global news channels shared climate crisis stories...

And why platform trials are the only way to move it forward This is the first article of a brand-new series inspired by EU-PEARL...

Me and my phobia I wasn’t always scared of spiders. I remember being very little and happily letting tiny red spiders run over my hands...

Words are powerful. They seek to inspire, elicit emotions, and can emerge into making a positive change. All around the world there are...

You’ve probably seen the expression ‘quiet quitting’ gathering momentum on social media and news outlets. What appeared to start as a...

As I sat on the grass soaking all the dewy fresh green around me in the early morning, I thought to myself, is green the colour of...