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Sorcha Alford
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Join date: May 5, 2023
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My name is Sorcha (pronounced sur-u-kha) and I am one of the managing editors at ITM!
I am a Neuroscience graduate with an MSc in Psychiatric Research and I am currently in the final year of my PhD focussing on perinatal mental health.
Whilst I love research, I am also really passionate about ensuring mental health research reaches the public to help empower people to feel educated and capable of promoting their own mental health.
I really enjoy writing about mental health, particularly focussing on how society can influence mental health. You can find my latest articles below:
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Sorcha
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Alford
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Oct 21, 2026 ∙ 6 min
Beyond Postnatal Depression
Maternal mental health is often framed through a single question: does postnatal depression affect the baby? And intuitively, this makes sense. It seems obvious that experiencing poor mental health while caring for a newborn could have negative impacts on the baby. But emerging evidence suggests this framing is too narrow. It may not simply be the presence of symptoms after birth that matters, but when they occur - and what they reflect about longer-term vulnerability.
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Sep 9, 2026 ∙ 6 min
Postpartum Psychosis Is More Complex Than the Lindsay Clancy Trial
I have been watching the Lindsay Clancy trial unfold over the past few weeks, with growing unease. Now, after weeks of testimony and intense public scrutiny, the proceedings have ended in a mistrial. Before I started my PhD, I knew very little about postpartum psychosis (PPP). I had briefly studied it during my Neuroscience and Psychiatric research bachelor’s and master’s degrees. But it wasn’t until I co-led the PRAM-P cohort study.
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Sep 7, 2026 ∙ 6 min
Sexual Health is Mental Health: Developing ACCESS-MH
We need to talk about sex in mental health settings. In recent years, it has become widely recognised that people living with psychiatric disorders experience a disproportionate burden of preventable physical illness. Research suggests that people with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) die 15-20 years earlier than the general population, with physical health conditions contributing substantially to this mortality gap. Growing recognition of this inequality has driven efforts to improve the prev
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