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The ‘not so clinical psychologists’ offer fresh perspective on mental health difficulties

TikTok/Instagram accounts offer a different way to look at emotions, therapy and mental health difficulties We have long felt a certain discomfort with our titles...

Part 2: Notes on being labelled ‘paranoid schizophrenic’

The most dangerous night of my life I had been smoking weed, I had been hearing my friends trying to scare me and threaten...

Faith healing in India: An ancient way of tending to madness

A small village in one of India’s southern states woke up to a tragic fire 23 years ago. Little did it know that this...

Notes on being labelled ‘paranoid schizophrenic’

On hearing voices, dissociation & being labelled  - ugh! - ‘paranoid schizophrenic’. I may go about my life, like most other people, maintaining my place...

“Disordered eating is a symptom showing us that a person is experiencing distress”

In my opinion, in the area of mental health, we talk too much about disorders and not enough about recovery and freedom. In 1952,...