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Carmine Maria Pariante @carminepariante.bsky.social · 3d

On the second #7October anniversary and as university students are preparing to protest, I am reposting my @inspirethemind.bsky.social piece on how life changed for #Israeli and pro- #Palestinian students at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social after the attack.

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Life at a UK University Since the October 7th Attacks

Bringing together the voices of an Israeli and a pro-Palestinian student at King’s College London.As we pass the one-year marking of the October 7th attacks, I have talked to two King’s College London...

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Valeria Mondelli @valeriamondelli.bsky.social · 8d

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Please share the upcoming meeting with your networks 🙏🏻

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 7d

In today’s #shortstory The Quiet Room, writer and #mentalhealth professional Dave Brennan reveals how small moments of #connection can spark a sense of #belonging and #hope in #psychiatriccare.

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The Quiet Room: A Short Story

Author’s Note: My name is Dave Brennan, and I am a writer and mental health professional based in the United States. I live with my own experiences of depression and anxiety, which have shaped both my...

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Carmine Maria Pariante @carminepariante.bsky.social · 8d

@sianysianysiany.bsky.social would you please share this?

Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 11d

Are you interested writing about how #societalconflicts and crises impact your #mentalhealth?

Submit a pitch using the form on our website (link in post) for consideration.

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 8d

In today’s article, @kingsioppn.bsky.social PhD student Andrea Ulrichsen unpicks the #research on the links between #sleep and #bipolardisorder, exploring whether sleep patterns can help predict mood episodes and create opportunities for timely interventions.

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Making Bipolar Disorder More Manageable: Using sleep patterns to predict mood swings

Sleep is incredibly important – for everyone. We all know the impact of a good night’s sleep: it can set us up for a great day or make everything feel more difficult. But, most of us recover quickly f...

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 10d

In today's article, Carla McCannon recounts a traumatic #experience aboard a ferry in #Vietnam, and highlights the #copingmechanisms she and her sister used to get through the event.

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From Dry Land to Death and Back Again—The Ferry from Phu Quoc

The wooden pier stretched ahead in the morning sunlight, its tip a distant dot poking out against the sea. We followed the stream of backpacks single-file like a line of ants, the wind lashing choppy ...

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Carmine Maria Pariante @carminepariante.bsky.social · 10d

A new opportunity for free-lance writers with lived experience of #mentalhealth problems

Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 11d

Are you interested writing about how #societalconflicts and crises impact your #mentalhealth?

Submit a pitch using the form on our website (link in post) for consideration.

(Further details can be found in the attached image).

#JournoRequest

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 11d

Are you interested writing about how #societalconflicts and crises impact your #mentalhealth?

Submit a pitch using the form on our website (link in post) for consideration.

(Further details can be found in the attached image).

#JournoRequest

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 13d

To conclude our series for #SexualHealthWeek, Hannah Shewan Stevens shares her experience of reclaiming #sexuality after #trauma.

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How I Reclaimed My Sexuality After Trauma

Sexual violence invades countless lives each year, all around the world. For me, it crashed into my life numerous times in the form of childhood sexual abuse and repeated sexual assaults in my teen an...

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 15d

Today researcher Amir Eglund in collaboration with Syeda Tahir, Mitul Mehta, and Joseph Barnby discusses the use of #THC to decode the mechanisms underlying #psychosis, highlighting a new #project to uncover this topic.

@wellcometrust.bsky.social

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Inducing Paranoia: Using THC to decode the mechanisms underlying psychosis

The 19th Century French psychiatrist Jacques-Joseph Moreau is often credited as one of the first scientists to systematically study the effects of psychoactive substances on the mind.

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 15d

In today’s article, journalist Ashika George challenges the viral trend of “letting the intrusive thoughts win” on social media, drawing on her own #livedexperience to shed light on its impact on people living with #OCD.

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 22d

In today’s article, @kingsioppn.bsky.social researcher Madeline Benton discusses a health #literacy programme for #pregnant women with limited English in the UK.

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Health Literacy for Pregnant Women with Limited English in the UK

A new health literacy programme in East London aims to improve pregnancy experiences for women who don’t speak English.In the United Kingdom, approximately one-third of births are to mothers who thems...

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 21d

"Our connection fought through intensities of the mind and panic in our hearts and still reached for one another in the end.”

Read more, as writer Samantha Wood pens her thoughts on #anxiety and #relationships from her own experience:

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Carmine Maria Pariante @carminepariante.bsky.social · 22d

Please read this very courageous piece by our @inspirethemind.bsky.social writer Samrina Sangha

Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 22d

In light of recent events in the UK surrounding #antiimmigration protests and a sexual assault on a #Sikh woman, psychology graduate and ITM editor Samrina Sangha pens her thoughts as a young #SouthAsian woman, ending with a message of #solidarity.

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Racism, Violence, and Belonging in Britain

Trigger warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault and violence which some readers may find distressing. On Tuesday 9th September, a South Asian Sikh woman in her twenties was raped by ...

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 22d

In light of recent events in the UK surrounding #antiimmigration protests and a sexual assault on a #Sikh woman, psychology graduate and ITM editor Samrina Sangha pens her thoughts as a young #SouthAsian woman, ending with a message of #solidarity.

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Racism, Violence, and Belonging in Britain

Trigger warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault and violence which some readers may find distressing. On Tuesday 9th September, a South Asian Sikh woman in her twenties was raped by ...

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 29d

In today’s article, Dr Eammon Walsh, programme lead for the MSc Neuroscience at King’s College London @kingsioppn.bsky.social, explores how rethinking academic #feedback can better support #academicsuccess, as well as student and staff #wellbeing.

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Reimagining Feedback for Mental Wellbeing in an Academic Environment

As the Programme Lead for the MSc Neuroscience at King’s College, I often engage with students.When I speak with our MSc Neuroscience students, one theme emerges consistently: feedback shapes not just...

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Sep 10

“Would you rather ignore the eyes of judgemental strangers and be happy, or stuff yourself into a box and appear to fit in?”

An excerpt from today’s article, where Ashleigh Tompkins discusses how #autistic perspectives can help us challenge #cringeculture.

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The Solution to Cringe Culture is Autism

'To cringe' can be defined as ‘having an inward feeling of acute embarrassment or awkwardness.’ This is a perfectly natural human reaction to seeing, hearing or touching something that makes us uncomf...

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Sep 10

In today’s article, writer Rachel LaBella shares her experience on reclaiming #pleasure after a #breastcancer diagnosis, highlighting the small but meaningful steps she took in her journey.

#sexualhealthweek

@brookchairyt.bsky.social

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Reclaiming Pleasure After Medical Trauma: What No One Tells You

How breast cancer treatment changed my relationship with my body—and how I'm learning to reconnect with it. When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, my primary focus was survival. I braced myself for ...

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Sep 8

In the first of a series of articles for #sexualhealthweek, writer Haley Young reflects on how recurrent #UTIs impacted her physical, mental, and #sexualhealth, highlighting the importance of raising #awareness.

@brookcharity.bsky.social

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Chronic Bladder Infections Made Me Feel Dirty, Boring, and Alone…

At 21, I had a series of urinary tract infections that culminated in a bladder surgery. These infections affected me physically—the post-op pelvic floor physical therapy was brutal—but the greatest im...

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Dr K WILDSCHUT @drkwildschut1984.bsky.social · Jun 20

Wonderful 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Carmine Maria Pariante @carminepariante.bsky.social · Jun 20

Three things I have learned from running the London Marathon:

1) If you put your mind to it, you can do anything you want

2) If you want to achieve something difficult, you better study

3) People will carry you – the supporters, the friends, the crowd

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Three things I have learned from running the London Marathon

When telling people that I was training for the London Marathon, most people would reply by telling me that they "could never do it". Even established runners, even people who had run half-marathons, ...

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Jun 24

In today's article, Research Assistant @francescasmancino.bsky.social writes about why #Representation is important for #YoungPeople with #Scoliosis, ending on an #Empowering note.

#ScoliosisAwarenessMonth

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Why is Representation Important for Young People with Scoliosis?

When the toy company Mattel launched the first-ever doll with scoliosis and a removable back brace a couple of years ago, I must admit I was genuinely and positively surprised. I was even more impress...

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Jun 25

In today’s article, journalist and author @wordsbychloe.bsky.social‬, explores the often-overlooked challenges of #Dating for people living with #MentalHealth difficulties or #Neurodiversity— from the fear of opening up to the need for real connections.

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How ‘down bad’ can you be when dating?

If you feel like dating is a Sisyphean task, you’re not alone. As a neurodivergent woman, I’m probably (definitely) considered an ‘oversharer’ by some. This is something I am very conscious of and cur...

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Jun 26

In today's article, Professor Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg uncovers what #Attachment really means in #Adulthood, highlighting the role of the #AdultAttachmentInterview in research.

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What is "Attachment" in Adults?

I am a professor of Developmental Psychology in Portugal and Chile. About thirty years ago, I did my PhD research on the quality of an interview to measure attachment in adults. The Adult Attachment I...

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Jun 27

Today’s #ShortStory by Chloe Smith shares a tender reflection on #Isolation, #MentalHealth and unexpected remembrance—where the task of clearing a woman’s home reveals that, despite appearances, she was never truly forgotten.

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What's Left Behind

Callum sighed as he pulled open another stiff drawer to be greeted by another cloud of dust.‘More personal belongings…’ he muttered to himself, as he carefully sifted through the contents. ‘If you can...

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