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Many people are scared to speak up about their mental illness. Perhaps it’s because they haven’t processed the fact that they have a...

The Hype on “Beyond the Hype”: an Interview with Fiona Fox, the Head of the Science Media Centre We are celebrating the 20 year...

Art & Mental Health in Conversation: An interview with Ukrainian Artist Margo Sarkisova The Art Unit x Inspire the Mind This interview...

Postpartum (or puerperal) psychosis is a rare — occurring in just 1–2 women per 1000 deliveries in the general population — but extremely...

I can’t remember when I first started worrying about the idea of ‘going mad’, but by my late teens it had become such a deep-rooted fear...

The opportunities and dangers of predicting mental health using social media: should one status reveal the other? It’s time to have a...

Bans Off Our Bodies: A Californian’s perspective on abortion rights Trigger warning: The following blog contains discussions about...

The COVID-19 outbreak hit us in March 2020, in the second year of my undergraduate Psychology degree. I experienced the national lockdown...

Those of you who have read my previous two blogs for Inspire the Mind, first on “Glass Delusion” and then on the physician Francis...

“It doesn’t matter, we all know what we’re getting at”, I see strangers say online as they discuss the difference between mental health...

Endless SOS cries on Twitter pleading for oxygen, essential medicines and hospital beds are deafening. These aren’t calls just from...

I am a big “smiler”. I smile at strangers in the street. I smile when entering a shop. I smile every time I make eye contact, no matter...

I was diagnosed with postnatal depression six months after having a baby. It took this long because I didn’t open up about it until this...

COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the nature in which we have been interacting with our friends and reaching out for support. As the...

My mental health issues started when I was young. When I was four years old, I experienced seeing things that were not there, and hearing...

When I first started writing about my experience with mental illness, the world of mental health in media felt quiet. Of course, there...

I was first introduced to musical theatre when I was about 8 by my Papa — he had the Les Misérables soundtrack and after finding myself...

I was working as an assistant teacher in English in my hometown Qingdao, in China’s eastern Shandong province, during the summer before...

In two weeks, my baby goes to daycare for the first time. He’s already one, and in his little life so far he has only met one other...

Before I had my child, I was a different person. Not just in the sense that well, I didn’t have a child, but in the sense that since, my...

Can early-life stress be the cause of the coexistent development of psychological, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders? The EarlyCause...

Sharing a part of yourself is never easy. Raising awareness for matters that are not widely discussed, especially amongst young women,...

Intrusive thoughts are a normal part of life. Unfortunately, everyone has them. Maybe you’ve been standing on a train platform and had a...

Let’s talk about the MINDEP study, my PhD journey and life after it. As a clinical scientist, it’s sometimes difficult to understand...