Amelia Talbot reviews a recent study that explores factors contributing to fatal overdose in healthcare professionals, both ...

Mostaured Khan is a public health and epidemiology researcher undertaking his PhD at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, ...

This twin study of nearly 14,000 UK adolescents found that body dissatisfaction at age 16 was linked to eating disorder ...

Inpatient mental health services are meant to provide safe places for people experiencing mental health difficulties to receive support and recover, but for many, the reality is far from this ideal.

Stigma towards individuals with mental health conditions such as depression is well documented (Wood et al., 2014) and highly common (see Pattie’s Mental Elf blog on the prevalence of self-stigma in ...

Brexit in 2016 hit the UK with crucial implications on people’s mental health, especially those who belong to ethnic minority backgrounds. But was there an earlier event in the UK that could have ...

Exercise-based interventions, potentially serving as either alternative treatments for depression or alongside medication and/or therapy, are recommended by the UK National Institute for Health and ...

Tharindi is a researcher whose work focuses on health, community, and everyday life in rural Sri Lanka. With a background in sociology and anthropology, her studies explore how everyday experiences of ...

The woodland has several blogs in relation to ‘treatment resistant depression’ looking at a range of topics from the patient experience to the cost effectiveness of interventions such as long term ...

Aggressive challenging behaviour includes verbal aggression, physical violence, sexual aggression, self-injurious behaviour and property damage. These behaviours in people with intellectual disability ...

Loneliness is an aversive emotion occurring when a person feels their social relationships are deficient in some way. As a loneliness researcher and someone who, like many, has felt lonely at periods ...

Mental health difficulties in children and young people (CYP) are rising, with one in five CYP reporting a probable mental health condition (Newlove-Delgado et al., 2022). Despite this, many CYP ...