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Trigger warning: This blog discusses personal experiences of self-harm. Disclaimer: While this blog shares personal accounts of...

“Anna has openly shared in a variety of settings her mental health difficulties. This has led me at times to be concerned about her...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted fundamental truths about infectious disease in humans. First, the makeup of our societies helps...

It’s a sunny day and I’m sitting in the living room with my eldest daughter reading her end of year school report. She’s worried about...

Content Warning: This blog is about mental health, OCD and intrusive thoughts of a violent and sexually harmful nature that some may find...

This new study says there’s a difficult but effective way. In moments of heightened anxiety and stress, my intrusive thoughts take over....

After returning to work from my third maternity leave, one thought still plagues my mind. Is my child going to be okay? I am an incoming...

Virtual reality (VR) has been finding more exciting applications for healthcare: VR tools help ease chronic pain, change body...

An Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development Workshop in Arts, Health and Humanities at King’s College London Today, our Inspire the Mind...

I can’t get the fog to lift: Deterioration progresses differently in people with different levels of memory problems Dementia research,...

The relational dimension of care has been core to our profession since its inception. Highlighted by Jaspers over a hundred years ago was...

A blog written by Amina, Subeyda and Maryam (Assistant Editors of InSPIre the Mind) — — — Ramadan is a special time for Muslims all...

Promoting student mental health at university necessitates changes in students’ educational and residential environments: A conversation...

As a Ukrainian researcher doing a rotation at the SPI lab, the home of Inspire the Mind, I can’t help but wonder what the impact of war...

Solitude is a widely misunderstood concept, often classified as loneliness, and a depressed state of being; however, it is proven that...

In the last 5 years, hospital admissions for eating disorders have risen by 84%, with over 9,000 admissions for anorexia nervosa between...

I have recently written an academic piece on the putative debate on whether depression is a medical disorder or a psychosocial condition,...

Here's How I Improve My Body Image Trigger warning: The following blog contains discussions about body dysmorphia and explicit...

It’s late 2018 and I’m clutching the box of antidepressants (that belong to a group of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake...

A recent article in The Guardian highlighted the urgent need for research into sex-related differences in asthma mortality, claiming that...

On the 24th of February 2022, my life was split into “before” and “after”. Guess which country I am from? Ukraine. Living through the war...

Disclaimer :  I am not a scientist nor a psychologist with a deep understanding about this topic, but merely a psychology student...

Trigger Warning: The following blog discusses graphic content shown in various horror films which some readers may find distressing. — —...