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Mischief Managed: The PhD is in
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good So finally the PhD is complete and I have handed in 2 rather slick looking bound copies to the examiners. Well I handed them in at the end of June but I haven’t...
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I have Crohn’s disease, which is just dandy
Yeah, great, thanks I have had the wonderful news that I have Crohns disease which to be totally honest was simultaneously a shock and a massive change to my world view. I had believed that my...
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Leaving science
I have started a new MSc course in science media production. I would have written about it earlier but there were tons of issues with the registration as I’m still technically registered on my PhD but...
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Mental health patients are being ‘detained in all but name’
More people are being sectioned under the Mental Health Act and too many of those detained are subjected to unnecessary restrictions and get too little help to recover, the NHS watchdog reports today....
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Hearing voices is just madness
I am totally crazy at the moment. The voices won’t leave me alone and I feel surrounded by madness. I’ve been seeing things too, particularly when I’m trying to get to sleep. I feel like a small...
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Crazy soup for the soul
Crazy Soup for the Soul I hear voices telling me to kill myself. They won’t go away, they tell me that I am worth nothing, that there is no point in me being alive because I’m just a waste of space....
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‘Hooked on happy pills’? How the media demonises mental health medication
By Rachel Whitehead Working in a busy press office for a major mental health charity Rethink Mental Illness, I often get calls from journalists asking if I can put them in touch with someone to...
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Lithium toxicity
Lithium toxicity is a bitch and all I did was take my meds. I didn’t know what was happening at the time but for a few weeks before I was having severe memory problems and was really tired all the...
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‘Am I crazy to want a baby when I’m schizophrenic?’ After a decade-long...
‘Am I crazy to want a baby when I’m schizophrenic?’ After a decade-long struggle, one woman tells of her fears as she contemplates starting a family There are babies everywhere – or at least, it feels...
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