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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠
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The digital magazine bringing together everything you've always wanted to know about the worlds of #MentalHealth, #Science, and #Society. 🔗 https://www.inspirethemind.org @kingsioppn.bsky.social
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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 22h
In today’s article, journalist Amy Kraft opens up about life after a #traumaticbraininjury and how her passion for #improv supported her #recovery, becoming a source of healing, confidence and connection.

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Yes, And: How Improv Helped Me Rewire My Brain After A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
From an early age I was obsessed with making people laugh. Inspired by Lucille Ball, I took every performance opportunity I could find. My elementary and middle school yearbooks are peppered with comm...
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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 5d
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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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 7d
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 · 9d
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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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 10d
Are you interested writing about how #societalconflicts and crises impact your #mentalhealth?

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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 12d
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 · 13d
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.

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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 · 14d
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 · 20d
"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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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 21d
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
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 · 23d
In the third article of our #sexuahealthweek series, writer Megan Hunt opens up about how living with #OCD affected her #sexualhealth - breaking the silence on an often-overlooked topic, to support and empower others navigating a similar journey.

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OCD, Avoidance and Reproductive Healthcare
I’m sure nobody looks forward to their gynecology appointment, but for most, it’s a necessary–if not a bit uncomfortable–fact of life. However, for myself and I’m sure many others, mental illness has ...
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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · 28d
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 · 29d
“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 · 29d
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

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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.

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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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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Sep 5
Why is alcohol tempting for #teenagers? In today’s article, writer Rachel Kelly breaks down the science and shares ways to foster a healthier #drinking culture among #youth.

#alcoholeducation #youthhealth #drinkresponsibly

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Drinking Culture Among Young People
Good news! Young people in general are drinking less than older generations did and still do: around one-quarter of 16 to 24-year-olds don’t drink at all, compared with just over one-fifth of the broa...
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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Sep 3
“While this sounds completely selfless, I see it as a wholly symbiotic process, whereby I get just as much in return.”

An excerpt from today’s article, where writer Jennifer Sizeland shares how #FosteringCats supported her #MentalHealth during tough times.

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Fostering cats is so rewarding, it's like free therapy
Trigger Warning: This post contains mention of suicide and mental health struggles, which may be distressing for some readers. Please take care of yourself and consider skipping this content if it may...
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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Sep 2
In today's article, researcher Kosma Sakrajda uncovers #lithium as a treatment for #bipolardisorder, highlighting how psychiatrist John Cade's work in the 1940s led to immense advancements in #psychiatry.

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Lithium and bipolar disorder: from the 1940s to treatment today
From lithium's (re)discovery to a gold standard in treatment: how an Australian psychiatrist's bold experiment reshaped psychiatryDuring the last few years, my studies focused on the lithium mechanism...
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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Aug 28
Today's collaborative article, led by Prof @sianoram.bsky.social highlights how #art, #reflection, and #solidarity can be weaved into healing, reflecting on a workshop facilitated by the @vamhn.bsky.social.

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Weaving Art, Reflection, and Solidarity into Healing
Creating space for survivors of abuse: in a one-day workshop on coercive control, we explored what it means to reflect, create, and reclaim space – together.In January 2024, the Violence, Abuse and Me...
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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Aug 27
In today’s article, writer Tassia O’Callaghan shares her #journey trying to conceive after #pregnancyloss, and the steps she’s taking to support her #mentalhealth along the way.

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Balancing Grief and Hope: My Trying to Conceive Journey After Loss
Trying to conceive (TTC) after a loss is its own kind of heartbreak. Not just because of what you’ve been through, but because of what you’re still hoping for. Every month becomes a question mark. Eve...
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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Aug 21
In today's article, #Psychotherapist Emily Randall shares her experience of her time on a Psychiatric #InpatientWard in the USA, reflecting on how her experience influences #Empathy in her career.

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Finding Grace in Building F
Disclaimer: All names used in this piece do not reflect the real names of the individuals involved.                               The pillow was almost as flat as I was. Almost as hollow and thin. I h...
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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Aug 20
Why can’t we stop hitting “next episode”?

In today’s article, PhD student @melisakose.bsky.social‬ unpacks the #Science behind #BingeWatching, and how changes in streaming culture can affect our #Brain and #MentalHealth. @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social

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Binge-Watching: How Our TV Habits Shape Our Brains and Mental Health
Streaming services have dominated the television and film distribution space over the last decade. With its rise, streaming powerhouses like Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+ brought with them a novel...
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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Aug 14
In today's article, @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social PhD student Jason Grant-Knowles highlights his journey into the world of #Patient&PublicInolvement, discussing the depth that #LivedExperience can add to theoretical #Knowledge.

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From Patient to Partner
The path through mental illness can be isolating, disorienting, and equally profoundly transformative. For those of us who have navigated the complexities of psychosis, crisis care, and prolonged inte...
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Inspire the Mind ✍️🧠 @inspirethemind.bsky.social · Aug 13
In today’s article, Melina Belén shares her powerful #HealingJourney — navigating family difficulties, abuse, and unhealthy coping mechanisms — and how returning to her homeland helped her reconnect with her #Roots and find #Peace.

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Finding Your Roots: It’s Okay to Start Over
I lost myself some time ago.  I searched in vain until I found her in my bedroom mirror. Nineteen years later.
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