Could psychedelics be used to treat mental health disorders?
Over the last year, Awakn – the UK’s first private clinic offering psychedelic treatment in combination with psychotherapy for addiction, anxiety, depression, PTSD, eating disorders and other…
Should you warn about serious mental health issues in a Tube ad?
Stewart Dolin, the 57-year-old lawyer in whose memory MISSD was set up, took his own life in Chicago in 2010 – six days after starting an SSRI…
The pursuit of success killed my dad – here’s how to stop the same from happening to you
His hypothesis is a simple one, but strangely hard to put into action; having a happier outlook on life can make you live longer and protect you…
Anxiety robbed me of my sleep – and by 32, my life was a car crash
The door swings open and a cold beam of artificial light fills my room. Someone with a clipboard says good morning, but it’s impersonal: full of tiredness…
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, review: a bumpy road trip to nowhere in particular
Anyone coming to the movie will surely be aware that Wilson is the genius who wrote the dazzlingly harmonic hits that made the Beach Boys the most…
How magic mushrooms changed my life
The sunlight glittered on the sea and the coconut palms waved beguilingly as the facilitator gave each of us a handful of brown capsules. They looked like…
Bryony Gordon on depression: ‘I woke up with an elephant on my chest this morning’
When lockdowns were first announced, many were relieved that they no longer had to commute to work, that they got to spend more time at home. I…
Nicole Kidman: I put rocks in my own pockets when filming Virginia Woolf drowning scene
Ms Kidman, who is from an Australian family but was born in Hawaii, was married to fellow actor Tom Cruise between 1990 and 2001. In an interview…
Why women are being given boxing gloves and ballet shoes instead of antidepressants
The “social” element of social prescribing is also key. Hermione Ireland, 51, is MD of a wine publishing company, who has just started taking group boxing classes….
The inconvenient truth about antidepressants
After the loss of her 16-year-old daughter Jenny to suicide, 60-year-old Jenetta Bary went onto antidepressants for a couple of months. “It left me feeling deadened and…