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In 2012, one year after the London riots, I wrote a blog for the Huffington Post UK, and longer academic paper, where I tried to...

How Anxiety Can Stop You Getting an Accurate Health Assessment “I can’t tell if she’s really unwell or if her anxiety is causing it,” I...

Is the pressure of competitive sport flattening athletes’ passion and hindering their mental health? Foolish, Wise, Fearful, or Brave?...

I’m tired of feeling guilty for being a working mother. It’s something I’ve been dealing with for a long time, ever since I got back to my laptop six weeks postpartum. Going back to work wasn’t an easy decision for me , but it was a vital one, because my family needed the money, and we couldn’t make the rent on my maternity pay. We often focus on mothers who stay at home to care for their babies, not working. Which is also a valid decision to make, and one that is not easy. B

Animals to the Rescue — Assisted Therapy & Unconditional Love Over the years, I relocated several times for education and work in India....

The interplay between sex hormones and immune system: an undiscovered path in the affective disorder maze? For generations (until the...

An Insider’s View on Mental Health in the Legal Profession Law is a high-stress profession; there’s almost no doubt about it. Having been...

How everyday activities can allow our brains to be flexible and adaptive across the lifespan Often, people report that their cognitive...

I’ve been writing personal essays ever since I first entered the world of journalism. Personal essays are pieces I enjoy writing, because I lose myself in the words. Throughout my career in journalism, I’ve focused on topics including mental health, sex and relationships, body image, and parenting. I’ve written features and reported on different subjects, but personal essays are something that I focus my work on, because it feels like telling a story. In all honesty, sometime

Psychology in the education system I was 10 years old when my first crush died. In an instant, my carefree innocent life was never the...

How can psychology help us to treat long covid? (Part two of two) You might have caught part one of this blog piece two days ago, where I...

13 Self-care Tips to Help You Achieve Good Mental Health Mental health has been an increasingly pressing problem in recent years....

How can psychology help us to treat long covid? (Part one of two) At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I co-published a blog about...

Trigger warning : The blog contains mentions of suicidal ideation, which some readers may find distressing. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder back in 2016. It didn’t come as a surprise; my mother also has bipolar disorder, and I had long been presenting with symptoms similar to hers. I had experienced episodes of both hypomania and depression — going from being on top of the world, running on no sleep and spending all of my savings — to feeling guilt, shame, exhaustion,

This is a blog about talent. It’s about how a talent, even kept under “seven keys” can be multiplied and bring hope to many people… Nice...

Ever wondered why you suddenly feel so calm whenever you are in nature? Be it at the park when you are having your Sunday picnic, by a waterfall, hiking or even after a camping trip? Well, that’s the healing power of nature. Whether you are consciously aware of it or not, nature has a way of relaxing and dare I say even healing you. Turns out there’s a name for this kind of healing and it’s called Nature therapy or Ecotherapy. The website WebMD describes nature therapy as “th

COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the UK — can we blame vaccine hesitancy? COVID vaccination programmes are underway all over the world. The UK...

I remember vividly the first time I was called fat. I remember the name of the person who said it, where it was and what I was wearing....

The month of June was a momentous milestone in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Regardless of your stance on the conditional...

Psychedelic drugs were not mentioned to me when training as a psychiatrist, as far as I remember. Perhaps they were, in passing, but...

I used to love Love Island. I remember discovering it at season two, and binge-watched the whole of series one just so that I was caught up on all of the gossip and the drama. I understand why people love the show — it’s a distraction from real life. Beautiful people lining up opposite other beautiful people to pick and choose who they fancy the most. We sit and stare at our screens as the drama unfolds each night at 9pm, an escape from the realities we are living. Especially

I first came across the study of depression as a biomedical science student. We discussed mental illness as a consequence or a side...

I was diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease in 2015. Ulcerative colitis, to be precise, which is a form of IBD that causes severe inflammation in your colon and sometimes, rectum. When I was nineteen, my bowel perforated. I had been going to the doctors for a year before this happened; concerned that something was truly wrong. I had been losing an excessive amount of weight, had experienced horrendous stomach cramps, and eventually, chronic constipation, and rectal bleedi

When thinking about maternal mental health and how difficulties with it may influence a developing baby, it is only natural to imagine...