Tag Archive: Mental disorder

‘Hooked on happy pills’? How the media demonises mental health medication

By Rachel Whitehead Working in a busy press office for a major mental health charity Rethink Mental Illness, I often get calls from journalists asking if I can put them in touch with someone… Read More

Leaving science

I have started a new MSc course in science media production. I would have written about it earlier but there were tons of issues with the registration as I’m still technically registered on… Read More

Want to be part of a new BBC documentary?

Hi there, my name is Laura and I am a documentary maker working on a film for BBC Three‘s new mental health season. The film will be about young people who have close… Read More

Stigma, Society, and Specialty Choice: What’s Going On? by Sam Huber

If psychiatry offers the flexible and reasonable hours, compensation, and autonomy that students cite as important to their lifestyle as a physician, why do applicants to psychiatry residency programs remain steady? If mental… Read More

Man on the wall

CAUTION THESIS WRITING IN PROGRESS

To be totally honest things are getting rather heavy at the moment. I am trying to hang on as there are only 2 weeks to go now so I’m just keeping my fingers… Read More

New mental health art blog

Hi there everyone. Since I do so much art, too much to fit on my mental health art page here, I have started a separate photoblog for all my mental health artwork and… Read More

Mental health art: The Mindful Exhibition

MINDFUL is an exhibition and arts festival at the Old Vic Tunnels which launched with a gala dinner and auction at Imperial War Museum. The project, initiated & curated by British artist and… Read More

Another mixed episode…

I’m not doing so good. The psychiatrist and Social Worker are worried. I am trying very hard to keep some sense of keeping it together but it’s not working at all. I’m sure… Read More

Reality of mental illness #1 MONEY

University is a time of money worries for most students, but for me it is a source of very real difficulties. I have problems with impulse control and am vulnerable to going on… Read More

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