Lockdown with a stressful job gave me suicidal thoughts – here’s how I turned it around
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Why you should never “want” OCD – not now, not ever
For this year's Mental Health Awareness Week, Mental Health Today is focusing…
I fell from the dizzying heights of hypomania down to soul crushing depression and back up again, over and over again
Ann-Marie lives with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. From racing thoughts of…
I’m an Expert by Experience – here’s how to challenge tokenism in patient participation
All too often, patient participation in the mental health field looks more…
A&E support following self harm must not become another Coronavirus casualty
Access to medical care during the Covid-19 crisis remains essential for people…
When being ‘out of touch with reality’ is your reality
Writer Erica Crompton has experienced psychosis for much of her life, at…
Phagophobia: ‘I have a phobia of eating in case I choke on my food and die’
Rita Mahal illuminates the difficulties that come with being scared of eating…
A psychiatric unit can aid my recovery, but only if my needs as an autistic person are accommodated
Emily Burke uses her experience of being admitted to psychiatric wards to…
I was part of a gang who understood what it meant to be different
Rita Mahal writes for Mental Health Today about how she 'found her…
I may be overweight but I still have anorexia
Maddi Crease is both overweight and anorexic, something which she says many people…