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Why writing a to-do list is a brilliant form of self-care
Yesterday, I shared a tweet talking about how I add things to my to-do list having already done them, just for the satisfaction of being...

Hattie Gladewell
Apr 6, 20213 min read


How My Modelling Career Ended Before It Even Began
Modelling is exciting until you experience it yourself. There are many hidden agendas that made me question the industry itself. I...

Aisha Ali
Mar 31, 20216 min read


Why I'm finally opening up about my binge eating disorder
I was very unwell with bulimia nervosa as a teenager. I felt insignificant next to my friends. I received comments on the size of my legs...

Hattie Gladewell
Mar 29, 20214 min read


The Role of Psychoneuroendocrinology in Health and Disease
If you have no idea what “psychoneuroendocrinology” means, no worries. It is not all that complicated and really just three words merged...

Lotte van Dammen
Mar 26, 20215 min read


When Two Poles Collide: A Personal Account of a Mixed Affective State
Bipolar disorder is a serious mental health condition that severely affects a person’s mood. It is a relapsing-remitting condition. It...

Angela Merriott
Mar 24, 20217 min read


Why suicidal ideation needs to be taken seriously
I remember sitting on my sofa in front of the television gazing past the screen. I wasn’t myself. I’d been feeling very low, and had been...

Hattie Gladewell
Mar 22, 20215 min read


Sarah Everard was just walking home
A conversation on women’s safety and the potential to make change At 9pm on the 3rd of March 2021, Sarah Everard left a friend’s house in...

Courtney Worrell
Mar 19, 202110 min read


Where words fail, Music speaks: Dementia and the Power of Music
I am a junior doctor keen to explore the meaningful connection between my two personal passions, the arts and health. Can the arts be...

Annabel Amber Pilecka
Mar 17, 20215 min read


How to write about your mental health without traumatising yourself
I’ve been a mental health writer for nearly eight years now. It’s something I enjoy writing about, and it’s something I know how to write...

Hattie Gladewell
Mar 16, 20214 min read


Covid-19 has made leaving the house impossible - but I am trying
I’ve always been someone who loves going out. To events with friends, for sleepovers, out shopping, clubbing, you name it. I was...

Hattie Gladewell
Mar 12, 20214 min read


Warm up your soul with a hot cup of tea
It goes without saying, this pandemic has been hard on us all. Not being able to be with the people you love is tough and it’s not...

Celeste Miller
Mar 12, 20214 min read


What I learned by taking a three-month break from social media
I open up my Twitter app, take a look through my timeline for the last time, and click ‘Deactivate Twitter’. My relationship with the...

Hattie Gladewell
Mar 7, 20213 min read


Letting Go of My Eating Disorder Feels Like Mourning the Loss of a Loved One
I was 12 years old when I started starving myself. By the time I was 13, I had a full eating disorder. My eating disorder has lasted...

Emily Bashforth
Mar 5, 20216 min read


Third time’s not such a charm — Has lockdown 3.0 been the hardest?
I am from the UK, and this means that in just a few short weeks it will be exactly one year since our restrictions began with the first...

Courtney Worrell
Mar 3, 20217 min read


Yes, I enjoy walks - but I take medication to help me live with mental illness
I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was 20. Ever since, I have heard plenty of generic comments about what to do about it. I’ve...

Hattie Gladewell
Mar 2, 20213 min read


What is this pain all about? Mental illness, philosophy and the search for meaning
My first encounter with mental illness was in books. I have been a researcher and a teacher in philosophy for about ten years and I...

Arianna Sforzini
Feb 26, 20219 min read


Sleep to remember (and forget)
Sleeping constitutes around one-third of our lifetime. To put this statistic into perspective, if you live until 70 years old, around 27...

Anna Bogdanova
Feb 24, 20214 min read


Why I decided to become a writer - and continued to do so after becoming a mum
I was 14 years old when I decided I wanted to become a writer. I took media studies as one of my subjects for GCSE, and I remember my...

Hattie Gladewell
Feb 22, 20214 min read


Complex Trauma: A Spectre in Psychiatry
I graduated from my BSc in Psychology in 2020. At the time I was so focused on my research project which focused on trauma and...

Owen Jones
Feb 19, 20216 min read


COVID-19 and the TikTok craze
Like many others during the early days of March’s first instalment of COVID lockdowns, I too joined the social media craze, TikTok. At...

Julia Jamka
Feb 17, 20217 min read


When the Healer Cries (Part 2 of 2)
Addressing doctors’ suicide and mental health in the world of medicine. The path of becoming and being a doctor is challenging. We may...

Ahmed Ashraf
Feb 12, 20217 min read


Mental Health and Wellbeing for Young People in a Pandemic: Advice from a mother and a youth worker
As we make our way through lockdown 3 there is good reason to be feeling all manner of emotions. The upheaval we have all felt has come...

Jenni Osborn
Feb 10, 20215 min read


Being a working mother made me feel like a failure - now I realise it was postnatal depression
When I was pregnant with my son, I turned to online baby groups and motherhood websites for support and to learn what I was in for when...

Hattie Gladewell
Feb 8, 20213 min read


The Science of Stress: How Does Stress Affect Young Minds?
This week (1st-7th Feb, 2021) is Children’s Mental Health Week. This year, the event has special significance because it falls in the...

Dr. Mia Eisenstadt
Feb 5, 20219 min read
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