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One in seven adolescents worldwide experienced mental health difficulties in 2019, with depression being one of the leading causes of...

This article is a double debut, both in discussing my OCD as a journalist, and writing about the disorder in relation to my poetry....

Understanding Long Covid: The need to challenge stigma at its root I’m a philosopher. For the last few years, I have been working on...

I was born a few months after the Columbine shooting. I always lived in a world where school shootings were normal Disclaimer: This blog...

Trigger warning: this blog discusses mental health struggles and suicidal thoughts. Even though I’m a journalist by trade, until now, I...

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Coach App: Relief comes at your fingertips In early 2020, at age 38, I was diagnosed with Borderline...

When I’m not playing video games, I am a research assistant on the eBRAIN study, researching adolescent brain development and mental...

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 mental health issue — but often it’s because they’re scared of the reaction. I remember years ago, when I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder, experiencing worries about telling people that I had been diagnosed. I was worried that I wouldn’t be believed, and I was worried that people would just tell me to “get over it”. I was also worried

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 and mental ill health, and the way we speak about it on social media. I see people say that discussing mental health terms correctly isn’t an issue, because it’s all one and the same — but it’s not. Language around mental illness matters. It matters because mental health and mental ill health are not the same thing. We all have 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 point; during a chance phone call with my health visitor when everything came spilling out all at once. I had been suffering in silence for every month before that point, feeling low, like a failure of a mother, and scared that if I told anyone, my baby would be taken away from me. A year on from giving birth, and six months on from first op

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 voices. At the time, for reasons unknown; and my teens were filled with mood swings. I was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. I also live with a chronic illness called ulcerative colitis; a form of inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation of the colon and rec

When I first started writing about my experience with mental illness, the world of mental health in media felt quiet. Of course, there were people writing about mental health issues — but there was nothing I could quite relate to. Writing has always been therapeutic for me. I treat it like a diary. In some instances, this is great — it allows me to write authentically and realistically. In other cases, it’s not so great, because it means that I’m vulnerable. Not just to other