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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...

I am a junior doctor keen to explore the meaningful connection between my two personal passions, the arts and health. Can the arts be...

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 about, because I have been diagnosed with several mental health conditions. But it’s not easy. Writing about mental health means opening up to the world and making yourself vulnerable. It means potentially sharing things that are quite personal to you, and worrying years later about who’s read it. Writing about your mental health means trus

I’ve always been someone who loves going out. To events with friends, for sleepovers, out shopping, clubbing, you name it. I was confident. I had been dealing with mental health issues for a long time, but from the ages of 18–23 I was outgoing. And then the Covid-19 pandemic hit, and it all changed. I had my son last April, and started experiencing postnatal depression and perinatal anxiety symptoms quite quickly. I remember having the baby blues pretty roughly — crying at ab

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...

I open up my Twitter app, take a look through my timeline for the last time, and click ‘Deactivate Twitter’. My relationship with the social media app had long been an issue. I’d been using it every day for the past five years, and had found myself feeling overwhelmed and nervous every time I clicked on the little white bird on the square blue background. I’d been thinking about deactivating for a long time. Loading the app, I always felt this deep feeling of dread in the pit

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...

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...

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 been told to go for a walk, to meditate, to practise mindfulness. And while these are all great things for general wellbeing, for a complex mood disorder like bipolar disorder, it just doesn’t work for me. And so, I deal with the condition by taking medication. I knew I wanted to take medication the moment I was diagnosed because, after exte

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...

Sleeping constitutes around one-third of our lifetime. To put this statistic into perspective, if you live until 70 years old, around 27...

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 media teacher quite sternly telling me that I’d never make it in the media world. I was 19 when I got my first writing job, a freelance commission for The Debrief. I’d always been a blogger, whether that was through Tumblr or Wordpress. I’ve always loved to write. Being a journalist was something I had always wanted — lifestyle writing, in part

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...

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

Addressing doctors’ suicide and mental health in the world of medicine. The path of becoming and being a doctor is challenging. We may...

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...

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 he finally arrived. While some of the experience was positive, and some a little negative, there was always one thread that stuck out to me: Mothers who called themselves failures because they stay at home and look after their children. Traditional gender norms are ingrained in us, if you’re in a straight relationship. The mums stay at home a

This week (1st-7th Feb, 2021) is Children’s Mental Health Week. This year, the event has special significance because it falls in the...

“Hello? Can you hear me?” was not something I thought I would be saying in the middle of my counselling session. Yet here I was, in my...

The online arts movement helping brain injury survivors to tell their stories through music During the pandemic, we have adapted to new...

Addressing doctors’ suicide and mental health in the world of medicine. Suicide is not a subject that is talked about as openly or easily...

Attention-deficit and hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is a common mental disorder typically detected in childhood and is characterised by a...

Depression is a serious condition that interferes with your ability to work, sleep, to interact with friends and family. In fact, it...

Drowning — Swimming through the Crushing Weight of Suicide What is the Problem? — a Mountain to Overcome but a Mountain Nonetheless...