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Ever noticed how a bad back can make even the sunniest of days feel cloudy? Ever wondered why your favourite footballer is out for longer for the same injury that someone else had? If you’ve answered yes, tread forward into Continue reading Into the Mindfield: Treading Across Mental Health in Physical Healthcare
<999 words, 5-minute read> Unlike how psychotic disorders are depicted in the media, there is not just hearing voices and paranoia. The stories patients tell are often fundamentally different. To treat this complex disorder, we need to listen to their Continue reading Taking the ‘Psycho’ out of Psychosis – Towards a Better Understanding of Co-occurring Hallucinations and Delusions
Picture this: one moment, you’re cruising through life; the next, you’re face-to-face with a spinal cord injury (SCI). It’s sudden. It’s unexpected. It’s like life threw you a curveball without warning. But fear not, because there is a secret to Continue reading Mind Over Matter: The Power of Appraisals in Spinal Cord Injury Recovery
“[Physical activity] is a real support to me whilst I am contending with depression and trying to emerge from it.” Have you ever gone on a walk and felt like all your problems have disappeared? There is some science to Continue reading Physical Activity – A New Form of Treatment for Mental Health Conditions?
It is no news that we’ve all probably joked about ‘new year, new me’ and never fully followed through with our plans. It is not hard to recognize that those goals we set for ourselves are probably good for us, Continue reading Understanding the contributing factors to help-seeking behavior: the bigger picture
There is no doubt that having ways to cope with depression and anxiety is important for recovery, but does having good (or bad) ways of coping (i.e. coping mechanisms) at the beginning of therapy help patients improve? Based on my Continue reading Your coping mechanisms are unlikely to matter before your low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
What is mental health competence? Do you know what is mental health competence (MHC)? It sounds like the “mental health” we are talking about every day. But MHC is not about emotional burnout, therapy, or Freud… It is a set Continue reading Uncovering mental health competence: the connections with school and mental disorders
Imagine this: you’re back in school, your teacher is pacing the classroom handing back marked exams, and places yours on your desk. In big red letters, you see the word: FAIL. How do you feel? Perhaps you want to hide Continue reading Untangling the link between school achievement and mental health: What part do your genes play?