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  • The Bliss of Not Knowing: How Escaping the News Cycle Made Me Happier

    With a little distance, I finally had space to breathe and noticed just how saturated my mind had been When lockdown hit, our hectic nights in the newsroom became solitary nights at the kitchen table. News, by nature, is alarming, and we're hardwired to focus on danger.

  • The eBRAIN Study: My Thoughts and Experiences

    Having known people struggling with mental health issues at the time due to lockdown and stress, my instant In my opinion, the best way to encourage other young people like me to take part in studies of this nature and to help them understand what they are a part of as well as nurturing their growth as they become mature

  • The Mind of Others: A documentary on mental health

    Between 2019 - 2020, Luke was at his lowest, partly due to the lockdowns but in January of 2021, during the third and most harrowing lockdown, Luke decided to give it all one more go, and he had our full

  • Hope through unsealed blinds

    Lockdown brings its challenges, but it has also brought various blessings. In our house, we are coming from a unique position in the lockdown parenting journey. In our area, it is not clear that lockdown is happening. It is a hive of activity. The monotony of lockdown is broken up by waving at police officers, running to see mounted police, the

  • Does Alcohol Become More Harmful As We Age?

    recent years, a growing body of literature has begun to uncover how alcohol can turn on our body’s natural As a result, we tend to experience chronic, low-grade inflammation that naturally increases as we age alcohol into the mix can further exacerbate the dysregulated immune function that is already occurring naturally

  • Craft and Connection this Christmas

    Winter worry-land As a natural over-thinker, worry and uncertainty caused by the pandemic has at times I am not however a naturally ‘creative’ person and I haven’t really progressed much since the kitchen I don’t know about you, but I reached my Zoom-quiz capacity during the first lockdown, so this sounds

  • Little Things: Savouring the Glimmers

    It was a nature trail, a symphony of trees. I am a nature devotee and a writer with Inspire the Mind and other magazines. Feeling sunshine on a cold day, basking in nature, petting your dog, rocking your body, humming your rainbow, a cotton-candy sky, a stranger dog greeting you with a wagging tail, a beautiful flower on your nature

  • A Unique Time, Full of Opportunity: Demystifying the Teenage Brain

    limbic system, widely thought to be important for emotion and motivation, for example, have already matured be in the midst of the slow myelination process, and the discrepancy between regions that have not matured Negative emotions can be challenging without matured frontal lobes to help regulate them. Health Organisation report showed adolescents reported more mental health concerns during the Covid-19 lockdowns The brain retains information more effectively as it matures, meaning that teenagers are allowed temporary

  • What Prison Taught Me About Mental Health

    And then, on the 26th of March 2020, the first COVID lockdown began. And so, after months of prison lockdown, I realised I’d stopped being irritated.

  • “What is Your MBTI?”- Inside Personality Testing in South Korea

    While their initial goal was to simplify the complexities of the human psyche, the binary nature of the Sharing a four-letter code often feels far simpler than grappling with the complex and fluid nature of focus often stays on positive traits, glossing over more complex or less flattering aspects of human nature

  • The Default Mode Network and Its Relationship with Consciousness

    Deeply interested in this topic, I began to wonder about the origin and nature of consciousness and questioned explaining the origin of consciousness, the DMN posits a great basis for speculation regarding the nature

  • Birds Of A Feather: Why Friendships Matter

    These friendships carry a profound emotional weight that reflects the collectivist nature of the region's The camaraderie shared by individuals is so meaningful that it is second nature for us to give family thick and thin Since our ties find their way into our circle of family and close relatives, it is only natural

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