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17Jun

Negotiating Your Cultural Identity

Semeyra Sarwar

culture, depression, identity, self, society, student, university

Therapists

Therapist Semeyra Sarwar opens up about negotiating her own cultural identity and the difficulties therein; confusion, anxiety, isolation.
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09Jun

Stress, IBS and the Gut-Brain Axis

Benjamin Brown

anxiety, cbt, depression, gut, microbiome, nutrition, stress, therapy, wellbeing

Body

What's the connection between our bowels and our brain? Benjamin Brown explains how to improve IBS symptoms by managing stress.
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01Jun

How EMDR Therapy can Resolve Trauma

Linda Newbold

anxiety, counselling, depression, emdr, self, therapy, trauma

Therapists

EMDR therapist Linda Newbold explains how this lesser-known therapy can be effective in identifying and resolving past trauma.
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29May

The Impact of City Life on Mental Health

Evija Melberga

anxiety, culture, depression, loneliness, self, society, therapy

Therapists

Therapist Evija Melberga reflects on the impact of city life on our mental health: how enjoying positives like independence and excitement doesn't always mean you are free from feeling lonely and overwhelmed
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12May

My Therapist was My Secret Weapon

Emma Dally

counselling, depression, experienceoftherapy, family, self, therapy

Mind

Emma Dally reflects on her long-term relationship with her therapist; a relationship that helped her heal childhood wounds and family rifts and live a more fulfilled life.
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08May

Using Mindfulness to Avoid Adrenal Fatigue

Charlotte Watts

anxiety, depression, mindfulness, self, stress, wellbeing

Body

What is adrenal fatigue? Learn how you can avoid 'burnout' by embracing mindfulness.
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07May

Valuing our State of Mind

Louise Chunn

anxiety, depression, psychology, self, society

Mind

Welldoing attended the Our State of Mind event to hear from Mind CEO Paul Farmer, Action for Happiness director Mark Williamson and co-authors of Thrive, Richard Layard and David Clark about the state of mental health in the UK.
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11Apr

Wellcome Book Prize 2015: All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

Camilla Nicholls

books, culture, depression, family, suicide

Soul

The desperate, loving tussle between two sisters draws the reader into a debate about a person’s right to die and the case for assisted suicide. All my Puny Sorrows is by Canadian author Miriam Toews, whose own father committed suicide. It is shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015.
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27Mar

Why The Andreas Lubitz Case Shouldn’t Stigmatise Depression

Louise Chunn

depression, society, stress, suicide

Mind

​We are all shocked and saddened by the death of 150 people in the Germanwings crash in the French Alps earlier this week. But as reports arise that link the deaths with co-pilot Andreas Lubitz's history of depression, many have faulted the way the media is reporting this tragic story. Headlines such as Killer Pilot Suffered from Depression (Mirror), Madman in Cockpit (Sun) and Why Was He Allowed to Fly (Mail) have, according to a joint press release from the mental health charities Mind, Time to Change and Rethink Mental Illness, been overly simplistic.
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23Mar

Perinatal and Postnatal Depression

Emma Haynes

counselling, depression, family, PND, postnataldepression, therapy, women

Mind

Perinatal and postnatal depression - why it is so important that new mothers feel able to talk about this problem.
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