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In today’s article, writer Sunita Thind opens up about her journey with #infertility following treatment for ovarian #cancer, reflecting on how cultural beliefs and #stigma surrounding #reproductivehealth can make this experience even more challenging.
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Chup Kar, Be Quiet: Infertility as a South Asian Woman
For Indian women, many expectations are placed upon us. Her hair, vaal, must be long and lustrous. She must have fair skin. Most importantly, she must bear children.The Omnipresent Evil EyeInfertility...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In today’s article, writer Sunita Thind opens up about her journey with #infertility following treatment for ovarian #cancer, reflecting on how cultural beliefs and #stigma surrounding #reproductivehealth can make this experience even more challenging.
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🧪In today's article, @kingsioppn.bsky.social Research Associate Anna Verey discusses the #sexualfunction as unexpected #casualty among #armedforces personnel, highlighting the impact of physical injuries and #mentahealth.
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Sexual function, the unexpected casualty
Some things in life you never expect to lose. Your orgasm is one of them.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🧪In today's article, @kingsioppn.bsky.social Research Associate Anna Verey discusses the #sexualfunction as unexpected #casualty among #armedforces personnel, highlighting the impact of physical injuries and #mentahealth.
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In today’s article, writer Jessica Dean shares how the #newscycle affected her #mentalhealth during the pandemic, highlighting an experience shared by many, and discussing how to find a balanced way to stay informed.
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The Bliss of Not Knowing: How Escaping the News Cycle Made Me Happier
It turns out ignorance really can feel like bliss, though I'm still deciding whether that makes me carefree or careless.
I’m Jessy, and five years ago I left my job and moved from London to Amster...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
In today’s article, writer Jessica Dean shares how the #newscycle affected her #mentalhealth during the pandemic, highlighting an experience shared by many, and discussing how to find a balanced way to stay informed.
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In today’s article, freelance journalist Aysha Imtiaz opens up about the struggles #internationalstudents face when studying abroad with their family, reflecting on her own #livedexperience.
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In Limbo: The Cost of Studying Abroad with Family
There are two types of winter coats. One is light on the pocket but good for a fast-fashion spin. Then there’s the down-filled workhorse, puffed with promise and designed to last year after year. Stan...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
In today’s article, freelance journalist Aysha Imtiaz opens up about the struggles #internationalstudents face when studying abroad with their family, reflecting on her own #livedexperience.
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🧪Does #alcoholconsumption become more #harmful the older we get? In today's article, @utaustin.bsky.social Research Fellow Alexis Campanile answers this question, highlighting what happens when #alcohol and #ageing collide.
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Does Alcohol Become More Harmful As We Age?
When we think about individuals who are likely to consume alcohol in large quantities, we often think about college-aged students or middle-aged adults. However, one important age group is often overl...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🧪Does #alcoholconsumption become more #harmful the older we get? In today's article, @utaustin.bsky.social Research Fellow Alexis Campanile answers this question, highlighting what happens when #alcohol and #ageing collide.
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🧪 In today’s article, @kingsioppn.bsky.social PhD student Riddhi Laijawala discusses how #federatedlearning can advance #mentalhealthresearch, drawing on her experience using this approach in the HappyMums study.
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Federated Learning Analysis: Revolutionising global research data
I am a mental health researcher working on the HappyMums project, a European consortium that focuses on understanding depression in pregnancy. At King’s College London, we are leading a clinical study...
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December 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🧪 In today’s article, @kingsioppn.bsky.social PhD student Riddhi Laijawala discusses how #federatedlearning can advance #mentalhealthresearch, drawing on her experience using this approach in the HappyMums study.
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In today’s piece, Psychology and Neuroscience graduate Caroline Lackner explores the feeling of #nostalgia and what it reveals about the #mindbodyconnection, reflecting on her own experience while unpacking the #science behind it.
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Nostalgia: Aching for the Ordinary
How nostalgia makes us yearn for our own memories.
Time moves forward whether we follow it or not. Nostalgia, however, waits.It lingers in old songs, in familiar streets, in the scent of a season ...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In today’s piece, Psychology and Neuroscience graduate Caroline Lackner explores the feeling of #nostalgia and what it reveals about the #mindbodyconnection, reflecting on her own experience while unpacking the #science behind it.
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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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September 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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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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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October 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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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October 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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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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October 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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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September 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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A new opportunity for free-lance writers with lived experience of #mentalhealth problems
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September 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A new opportunity for free-lance writers with lived experience of #mentalhealth problems
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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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September 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
To conclude our series for #SexualHealthWeek, Hannah Shewan Stevens shares her experience of reclaiming #sexuality after #trauma.
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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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September 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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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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September 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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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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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September 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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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Please read this very courageous piece by our @inspirethemind.bsky.social writer Samrina Sangha
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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September 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Please read this very courageous piece by our @inspirethemind.bsky.social writer Samrina Sangha
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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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September 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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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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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September 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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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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.
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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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September 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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.
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“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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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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September 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“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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An excerpt from today’s article, where Ashleigh Tompkins discusses how #autistic perspectives can help us challenge #cringeculture.
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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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September 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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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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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August 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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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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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August 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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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