Immersive VR simulates real-life environments with visual, sensory, and auditory input sent to the user in real time via a head-mounted display (HMD) – otherwise known as ...
People diagnosed with a mental illness tend to die 15 to 20 years earlier than those who do not have a mental illness. Many of these early deaths are from preventable ...
A year into our relationship, my boyfriend confided in me about his desire to wear clothes traditionally associated with women, such as a dress. After trying it out, he ...
Schizophrenia affects around 1 in 300 people globally and is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide (Foley EM, 2023, The Mental Elf). This debilitating condition ...
First thing’s first, what are circadian rhythms? Circadian rhythms are internal 24-hour rhythms that cause physiological and behavioural changes with the aim of aligning us ...
People with psychosis (such as schizophrenia or bipolar with psychotic symptoms) have a significant burden of symptoms. Research has mainly focussed on helping symptoms ...
In this blog, I will discuss a recent systematic review and meta-analysis on eating disorders (EDs) among international immigrants by Siddiqi et al. (2024).
The “healthy ...
If we go back over a century to Bleuler’s four “A’s” of schizophrenia (ambivalence, autism, affective incongruity, and association disturbances) (Bleuler, 1911) it is not ...
‘I’m feeling a bit depressed today.’ While mental health professionals may feel frustrated at a perceived overly-casual use of the word ‘depressed’, it is in fact true that ...
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) features three main symptoms: (1) re-experiencing the trauma, (2) avoidance of trauma reminders, and (3) a persistent sense of threat ...
Rumination, also known as repetitive thought, is prolonged and recurrent negative thinking about feelings and upsetting past experiences (Watkins, 2008). In contrast, worry ...
Exercise-based interventions, potentially serving as either alternative treatments for depression or alongside medication and/or therapy, are recommended by the UK National ...