Every article on the site, newest first. New mental health research, explained in plain English, with the source always linked.
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Guilty for Being Okay: What Two Studies Reveal About Distant Suffering and Why Caring Is Not the Same as Hurting
Picture a doorbell wired to every house on earth. You live in one small flat, with one hallway, and yet the bell rings whenever…
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World Mental Health Day: One Conversation That Could Change Someone’s Year
Picture the car park outside your GP surgery. You are ten minutes early, engine off, phone in your lap, running through what you are…
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One in Twenty: What a New IPPR Report Reveals About Young People and the Friendships That Went Quiet
A Singular Point of View Picture a path worn through the grass of a park, where nobody planned one. You have crossed it a…
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Walking It Off: What 75 Trials and 8,636 People Reveal About Walking, Anxiety and the Fuel Your Body Cannot Burn Sitting Down
Picture your anxiety as a fuel tank that has been filled all day and never emptied. You are at the kitchen table at ten…
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A Small Dose of Green: What 59 Studies and 8,339 Referrals Reveal About Nature, Anxiety and a Calmer Mind
Picture the window above your kitchen sink as a dimmer switch. You are standing there at ten past seven in the evening, hands in…
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Eight Hours and Still Flat: What the NHS and the WHO Reveal About Being Tired All the Time
Imagine you plug your phone in overnight and wake to 100 per cent. By ten past eleven it is in the red. You have…
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It Peaks and It Passes: What 143,000 Interviews and 72 Trials Reveal About Panic Attacks and What Actually Helps
A Singular Point of View Imagine the fire alarm in your building goes off, and there is no fire. You are in the queue…
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The Quiet That Frightens You: What Research on Relaxation-Induced Anxiety Reveals About Why Calm Can Feel Unsafe
Imagine you are a night watchman, and nobody has ever told you the shift ends. The building has been locked for hours. You still…
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Why Your Body Panics: What the Science of Fight, Flight and Freeze Reveals About the Alarm You Never Chose
Picture a smoke alarm fixed to the ceiling of a house you live in. It is wired into the walls, and you were never…
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Nineteen Sources, No Trial: What a New Review Reveals About the 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique
Picture a kite in a rising wind. You are holding the reel, it is half past eleven on a bad night, and the string…
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Two In, One Long Out: What Stanford Research Reveals About the Physiological Sigh and a Calmer Body in Under a Minute
Imagine a kettle on the hob, just before it boils. You are standing next to it with a letter in your hand, the one…
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I Have Friends, So Why Do I Still Feel Alone? What New Research Reveals About Emotional Loneliness
Picture a lit-up carriage on the last train home. Every seat is taken, the window is full of other people’s reflections, and somebody’s laugh…
