Tag: Depression
Japan’s Crown Princess set to take a new role as the...
A new era is about to dawn in Japan. Suffering from ill health, the elderly Emperor Akihito will abdicate the Chrysanthemum Throne in favour...
The Glorification of XXXTentacion
I know you're somewhere, somewhere/I've been trapped in my mind, girl, just holdin' on". When I first came across Jocelyn Flores I was on...
Our Smartphone Addiction
Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives, for better or for worse. We are connected to friends and family around the world...
Do You Believe in Magic (Mushrooms)?
ALDOUS Huxley famously wrote "take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."
Sounds...
Mental Health and Social Media: do we spend too much time...
The panic around social media use today is like the panic around Grand Theft Auto in the noughties, video-nasties in the eighties and the...
Google’s PHQ-9 Tests – combating increasing rates of mental health problems
As part of an initiative which sees the tech giant partnered with the USA’s National Alliance on Mental Illness, Google mobile searches for the...
The Pill: Sexual Liberator or Limitator?
When the birth control pill was introduced in the 1960s, it sparked a revolution: women could take charge of their own sexual freedom. Now,...
Disorientation, depression and danger: retirement in sport
“I’m 35 and I still don’t know who I am. I don’t know who I am as a person.” Such candid remarks are likely...
Words Matter: Talking about mental health
“W ith the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at the forefront of the Heads Together campaign and the recent popularity of the Netflix show...
The Reality Behind the Instagram
We all know the drill. Edit the photo within an inch of its life, ace the caption (not too deep, satire welcome, lay off...
