Mental Health
Not all people who make a suicide attempt have a psychiatric diagnosis
Suicide is preventable and not inevitable. Despite this, more than 720,000 people die by suicide every year, and there are many more people...
Why More Young People Are Being Hospitalized for Mental Health
The rise was highest among girls aged 11 to 15, whose admissions more than doubled, and in cases of eating disorders, skyrocketed by...
How physical exercise can support trauma treatment
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) consists of three main symptom clusters: (1) re-experiencing the trauma in the present moment, (2) avoidance of reminders...
Updated review of experiences of compulsory treatment builds the case for legal reform to be grounded in lived experiences
Following large scale reviews, new legislation for England and Wales will be debated soon in Westminster, while the Scottish Government is yet to...
Opening ward doors doesn’t make staff any more coercive
When I started working on acute mental health wards in the mid-1990s, the ward doors on my unit were never locked, occasionally nursing...
Can Sleep Cure Mental Illness?
This World Sleep Day (15 March 2024), we consider the powerful effects sleep and sleep quality can have on mental health.
World Sleep...
LGBTQ+ wellbeing inequalities in early to middle adolescence
LGBTQ+ adolescents are more likely than their heterosexual and cisgender peers to experience common mental health difficulties (Amos et al., 2020; Rogers &...
MQ joins calls for a public health strategy on trauma. |
MQ has contributed to an All-party parliamentary Group report that is calling on the UK government to ‘unlock the trauma trap’ of Adverse...
How effective are antipsychotics at preventing relapse in the real world...
For people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia (and the related diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder) we know that they are at a high...
How to Get the Support for Bipolar You Need – Bipolar...
Support for bipolar is important, but the support for bipolar that you actually need is even more so. We’re all different, and the...
