Lianna Tosetti examines the damaging stereotypes directed towards certain mental illnesses What are your first thoughts when someone mentions mental health? Does it make you cringe with discomfort? Or is it something you can relate to and openly talk about? Either way, awareness of mental health has been on the rise in modern society, with […]
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I sense you
Walking into a darkened room you feel them standing behind you, just out of sight, breathing down your neck. You jump around, no-ones there. What you’ve just experienced is called feeling of a presence (FoP), and you’re not the only one. Legends of ghosts, spirits and other such ethereal presences have been found in almost […]
Is cannabis a healthy high?
Last week, bored and looking for something to distract us from the tedium of dissertation research, my housemate and I watched a movie. It’s a black and white movie that was made in 1936, famously called: Reefer Madness (formerly known as Tell Your Children). The film has gained notoriety in recent years for its hyperbolic, […]
The Government’s Nutts
The past week has been a big one in terms of breakthroughs in drug science. Perhaps the most well-known case is the recent revelation that LSD could be, in small doses, a viable treatment for anxiety and depression. Pharmacological science has never been more exciting, so why is it still so hard to get our […]
Myths of the mind
In a society where mental health is stigmatised, the average person (having not experienced or learnt about any mental illnesses themselves) is likely to be unaware of the true facts about mental illness (and ironically this increases stigma). So here is your first lesson about a couple of mental illnesses: What is Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is […]