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When Anxiety Gets Physical I’m Alice. I’m a freelance writer and editor with anxiety and depression, fibromyalgia and functional...

Recognising empathy as a cornerstone for making a meaningful impact in a post-COVID world: The Shepley Parkin Empathy Award Emerging from...

Addiction: The depths and the recovery with professional boxer Charlie Duffield In my twenties, I suffered from a gambling addiction that...

I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroscientist working with the Stress, Psychiatry, and Immunology Laboratory (the team that...

So many of our greatest successes start from a dark place Watching a TV program about 1995, I realized that year held some of the darkest...

I am a researcher at the Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology (SPI) Lab at Kings College London, a Nutritionist and part of the team that...

Let me preempt this piece by saying that I hate the coronavirus pandemic. As a professional magician and freelance writer, the...

My name is Aida and I’m a second-year student at King’s College London, currently studying Global Health and Social Medicine BSc. I’d...

I’ve cried on ashen floors of working men’s clubs. 96, 98, 2000, 2002, 2004. Oh my god, will it end? Oh my god! Oh my god!...

I’m often asked if the effects of motherhood on the brain will last forever. Short answer — yes! And this looks like a good thing. I’m a...

There have long been calls to reform or change the way we look and talk about education in the UK, but never has it been talked about so...

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...

The role of psychiatric symptoms and parenting stress Postpartum psychosis: which are the symptoms and which women are more at risk...

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

What Can We Learn from Blood & the Brain? Since their introduction to medicine in the 1950s, antipsychotics have been the first line of...

...and that Challenges Me a lot Most Days The good news is challenges are meant to be overcome Writing is my lifeline. Ever since I was a...

My interest in mental health grew considerably when I started medical school. I remember being spellbound by a lecture in the first term...

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

Why does Burnout Matter at this Stage of the Pandemic? If you are reading this blog and you are not feeling tired then you may be one of...

*Trigger warning: this blog discusses mental health struggles and suicidal thoughts. I’m crouched beneath the desk of my university dorm...

A step-by-step guide on how to break free and make a fresh start *Trigger warning: this blog discusses domestic abuse. My name is Rosy,...