Can I even be ill if my life is this fulfilled? – challenging misconceptions of millennial mental illness
Lisa, a mental health blogger in her mid-twenties, discusses why attitudes towards millennial mental illness need to shift. Drawing on her own experience, she exposes the problems surrounding the idealised…
‘Transdiagnostic psychiatry’: should we prescribe to treat specific emotions, rather than specific disorders?
Patients and psychiatrists might arriving at effective medication faster through following a narrower structure that's based on 'symptom rather than syndrome', argues Adrian Pecotic. Could the same logic apply to reaching a talking therapy…
Conquering anxiety: pathological fear and its manifold causes
What causes anxiety? Abi Crossland-Otter explores what we know.
Innovative technology reduces hospital discharge delays
Grainne Eloi, Interim Head of Mental Health Services at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, discusses how new technology reduces unnecessarily long hospital stays.
Why we talk about our childhood in therapy
Describing our caregivers helps us recognize the pieces of our identity created by others. While some of these parts may serve us well, we can learn to release the ones…
Rewriting eating disorders
Fiction allows readers to see themselves, or versions they could be, says author Samuel Pollen. He leant on his own experience of anorexia when writing his new novel.
Bullying, family break-up and psychosis: piecing the jigsaw together, 40 years on
As a teenager I was not only the subject of intense bullying and torment at school, but also lacked any help in securing assistance in the wake of psychosis and…
Personal budgets for mental health issues: a blessing or a burden?
Over a million people will spend public funds on their own behalf through a personal budget, according to a new report from the public services think tank Reform. Reform has…
When is a consultation not a consultation? Lessons in mental health education policymaking
With mental health education plans promoted unconventionally this week, Mental Health Today exposes the cynical tactics government departments sometimes deploy to evade scrutiny.
1 in 5 patients detained under the Mental Health Act have no input in their care plans
Throughout 2017/18, CQC (Care Quality Commission) carried out visits to mental health wards to meet patients, review their care, and speak to staff on the frontline to inform its annual report to…