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Senior psychiatrist calls on the Government for urgent investment in cash-strapped frontline services

Writing exclusively for Mental Health Today Dr Kate Lovett, Dean and chief academic…

Dr Kate Lovett

Using emotional safety to understand my internal world

A personal story about how the author has made strident progress in…

Maddi Crease

Children’s Commissioner publishes major report on the impact of lockdown on children

With children back at school, now is the opportunity of "building back…

Ed Brown

‘Bingeing’ through lockdown

Lockdown facilitated an "already-unhealthy drinking culture" worldwide, argues psychotherapist Noel McDermott. He offers…

Noel McDermott

Three million more are ‘high-risk drinking’ during Covid pandemic

Over 8.4 million people are now drinking at higher-risk – up from…

LeeMC2022

What does sustainable mental health support from friends look like?

Often in times of crisis, it is friends who we turn to…

LeeMC2022

My psychiatric condition helped me discover my genderfluidity

Ibtissam Benaibout has had a preoccupation with daydreaming since she was a…

LeeMC2022

Maladaptive Daydreaming: the underrepresented condition

Ibtissam Benaibout lives with a condition known as Maladaptive Daydreaming which has…

Ibtissam Benaibout

How to confound barriers to mental illness support experienced in the Muslim community

Mohammed Khan, who has lived with mental illness for over a decade,…

Mohammed Khan

Scotland’s MHA review: “I don’t think trauma-informed care will stop all the suffering we go through”

Graham Morgan has been living under a compulsory community treatment order for…

Graham Morgan