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Stress — it’s a hot topic for discussion. It seems that every day we are confronted with new information on managing it. The body has...

Having a baby is considered a unique and incomparable experience in the life of any woman, and breastfeeding is often described as one of...

Social media platforms are constantly growing and becoming a central part of people’s lives, especially for the younger generations....

Have you ever experienced an emotion so strong it felt as if you were losing touch with your own self? Did you feel like these emotions...

Just last month, I was chatting to a friend, who happens to be a doctor, about my research. She asked me: “So, really? You would classify...

In recent years, more and more attention has been placed on the concept that the psychological development of a child is the result of a...

We all experience stress. Whether garden-variety stressors (the task that was due last week, the pile of laundry that keeps growing, the...

The period following childbirth represents a very delicate phase of settling and redefinition of personal and relational identity for new...

Disclaimer: The intention with this blog is to discuss some of the ways that myself and others have noticed that brands use times like...

You might have seen the recent headlines. The Sun: The Mirror: Millions taking antidepressants ‘must be warned of dangerous side effects’...

‘The Wounded Healer’ — Harnessing the Power of the Performing Arts to Reduce Mental Health Related Stigma in Healthcare Professionals and...

I have spent much of the morning trying to find the right sentence with which to start an article. I am playing with the phrase ‘it is a...

Emma Watson in Conversation with Dr Denis Mukwege, presented by The New York Times and how to: Academy Trigger warning — This blog...

In her TED talk Dr. Sacks explains that, just like adolescence, ‘matrescence’ is a time of feeling “hormonal and moody…skin breaking...

A coldish evening and I am back from a class on how to give a presentation, cradling a mug of celebratory hot chocolate. Even the thought...

Adolescent depression is on stage in London: at the KILN Theatre, in ‘The Son’ by Florian Zeller, and at the Royal Society of Medicine,...

A tense body means a tense mind. Equally, if you are physically relaxed, it is impossible to be anything other than mentally relaxed....

I had never paid much attention to depression, anxiety, eating disorders or sleep deprivation, that is, until I had my second baby. She...

Film has always been a powerful and stirring medium for storytelling, especially around the theme of mental health. Here, we reflect on...

Many may have viewed nutritional psychiatry as a new interest in the field of medicine, but it was actually an age-old remedy along with...

Maternal Mental Health Matters Awareness Week 2019 has just started, and we are going to celebrate it today with the launch of the...

A biological overview of the seasonal changes across mood disorders “The changes of the seasons are especially liable to beget...

Murderous, unstable, and practising medicine; how do the ways that films present psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience affect both...

Identifying women at risk could protect them and their infants. Perhaps not everyone knows that depression during pregnancy is as common...