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Study links threatening or obscene messages with increased risk of mental illness

A University of London study has highlighted the extensiveness, and emotional impact,…

Ed Brown

Is doomscrolling the problem? Or is it the state of the world?

Doomscrolling epitomised 2020 and has continued to suit 2021 pretty well. The…

Ed Brown

As the crisis in Afghanistan escalates, UK veterans seek mental health support

As news reports and social media are filled with distressing images of…

Bryony Porteous-Sebouhian

Creative workshops for wellbeing by Performing Medicine to start in October

Performing Medicine is a leading provider of arts-based wellbeing training for the…

Bryony Porteous-Sebouhian

Safeguarding yourself and others from traumatic media

After a year full of traumatic events, it becomes increasingly easy to…

Bryony Porteous-Sebouhian

Psilocybin found to ‘repair’ neural connections in mammalian brain

Continuing our reporting on how research into psychedelic treatment of psychiatric disorders…

Bryony Porteous-Sebouhian

Fighting stigma: what is psychosis?

In this first part in a series of blogs on stigma we…

Bryony Porteous-Sebouhian

Long-term physical and mental conditions found to be linked to increased unlocking anxiety

As part of their ongoing longitudinal study, the Mental Health Foundation have…

Bryony Porteous-Sebouhian

Survey finds that more needs to be done to get men to talk about their mental health

An online survey has found a mixed picture of men's mental health.…

Ed Brown

Lived experience advisors should become a standard for TV and film

Representation matters. But not only this, getting that representation right is also…

Bryony Porteous-Sebouhian