Results for: 'mental health'

Mental Health Diaries: Masters student Haja Marie Kanu logs a day of living with Borderline Personality Disorder, while away from home in Sierra Leone.

FOGO, or fear of going out, is not a clinical term. But it is increasingly being used to describe the post-lockdown, post-Covid anxiety affecting many young people in the UK.

Mental Health Diaries: For Mental Health Awareness Week, Chanté Joseph shows us how she stays productive while living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Mental Health Diaries: Journalist and founder of The OCD Chronicles podcast James McMahon takes us through a day of living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Brunettes or blondes? Who cares! Cognitive behavioural therapy just got much sexier.

Often blamed for causing anxiety, new research is finding that cannabis really could ease those jitters. Simon Doherty, our resident drugs columnist, looks through the smoke.

Last year, Jessica Tremaine started her sustainable shop, plant exchange and community project as a means of bringing nature to the masses. Now, she’s leading a pioneering campaign to highlight the benefits and environmental impact of owning plants.

A record 70 million antidepressants were prescribed in England last year. Arguably an easy remedy for doctors and psychiatrists, are SSRIs still fit for purpose?

Three lockdowns in and pandemic fatigue in the UK has truly set in. But what are the lasting impacts of people staying home and switching off from online communication?

Wanna get zen via blue light? A happier, healthier and more mindful life is, supposedly, one finger tap away.

From the Taliban’s poppy ban to what’s really in your weed vape, Drugs Columnist Simon Doherty shares his, ahem, highs of the past 12 months.