Whilst psychiatric hospitalisation can be lifesaving (Wang & Colucci, 2017), it is also associated with a wide range of adverse clinical outcomes (Walter et al., 2019) ...
Authored: Jan. 23, 2011
Updated: April 23, 2025
People with a mental illness feel alone.
Depression makes you feel alone. Depression makes you feel like you’re the only person ...
Over the past decade there has been huge interest in the role of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in brain function and mental health (as covered in these previous Mental Elf ...
We’ve known for a long time that diet affects depression, but the science has gotten stronger and stronger over time. Science has moved from diet affects depression, but we’re not sure ...
Preventing depressive relapse is a major goal in the management of bipolar disorder. It has been shown that depression makes up around 72% of overall time spent ill in ...
Research has long established a bidirectional relationship between sleep and mental health, where poor sleep can exacerbate psychiatric symptoms, and conversely, mental ...