Seventy cheers for NHS staff

This isn’t about grand gestures, life-saving surgeries or miracle treatments – it’s about the little things that happen every day in GP surgeries, A&E departments and wards all over the UK, every day.

Mental Health Awareness Day 2017

With awareness and rising numbers of people asking for help with their mental health comes the need for services and treatment that is available and affordable – and that is desperately lacking and showing no signs of improving. 

The Five Best and Worst Things about #WorldMentalHealthDay

I, and many people I have communicated with through social media, have very mixed feelings towards this day and other similar ‘Awareness Days’. So I thought I’d list a few things, because… well, balance.

We need to talk about functioning eating disorders

Most people with eating disorders sit between the extremes and have to live and survive in a society which itself has an unhealthy obsession with weight and image…

Anorexia is a lot of things. Narcissistic isn’t one of those things.

Anorexia has the highest mortality rate amongst mental illnesses. It is a slow suicide, and ending up in a coffin really isn’t a good look.

Can we stop genderising mental health please?

Boys don’t cry… but loads of women are sad, scared and suicidal too.

Here’s why Jamie Oliver and his Sugar Tax can do one…

I don’t think we need a food revolution and I don’t think that the definition of bravery is for the Tories to ask for more money from a country that already uses foodbanks.

Dear Stranger…

A little project I helped on a while back Out 02 July 2015 ‘Dear Stranger is an inspiration’ Stylist Dear Stranger is a collection of inspirational, honest and heartfelt letters from authors, bloggers and Mind ambassadors to an imagined stranger. …

From Marathons to Mountains…

It’s May! That means it’s my birthday, but I’m not that bothered about that this year because I really hate odd numbers (a completely irrational hatred, NOT “a bit OCD”, because y’know, that’s not how it works, at all). What’s …

‘Diet Pill Deaths’ won’t end any time soon…

The truth is that in some, if not many cases, there is a calculated risk involved when it comes to taking diet pills or supplements purchased over the internet. We shouldn’t be worrying so much about the name of the chemical, but addressing what it is that drives people to become desperate enough to take pills without even knowing what’s in them.

Why I’m (still) fundraising for Mind…

Everybody deserves to have a voice and everybody deserves to be listened to.