Mental Health

As a high schooler and for most of my adult life, I assumed college was simply the next step. So much of my education was focused on preparing…

Sad to hear of Bill Oddie’s death (Report, 27 July). He first grabbed my attention in I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again, a 1960s radio show with…

My first Consultant Psychiatrist post was in Liaison Psychiatry and the overlap between physical and mental health remains close to my heart…

Few things have helped me in my journey to emotional and physical health more than journaling daily. I had to work at this habit, but now it’s…

The federal health department will begin a series of steps intended to curb antidepressant use in the US, Robert F Kennedy Jr announced this…

Adolescence is a key period for the onset of mental health difficulties, particularly anxiety and depression, with 1 in 5 young people…

Food addiction is a real problem in our modern society. Many women especially have a lot of guilt and shame around their weight and not being…

On a threadbare carpet in the living room of a Bernal Heights bungalow, I lay blindfolded on my back. Two middle-aged rescue terriers, one…

“To be means to communicate dialogically.” – Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics (1984, p. 252) Open Dialogue has attracted…