
What do I look for in non-fiction mental health writing?
After much deliberation, I have decided to split this post into two. One about non-fiction, one about fiction. These are ...

It’s been a while
I feel really bad that I started my blog and then stopped so abruptly, but at the time I had ...

School of life – Know Yourself: Cards for self-exploration
I bought these cards from a famous London bookshop that is a place I absolutely have to visit whenever I ...

How do we talk to others about suicide?
Suicide is still considered a taboo subject to discuss, some people think that by not talking openly about it people ...

The power of words – Should we be talking about suicide?
Trigger warning: frank discussion about suicide. Recently some prominent figures have died by suicide and subsequently, the media have been ...

The power of words – Should we be conscious of the words we use when talking about mental health?
“Words: So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they ...

Starting the Mental Health Book Club Podcast
After being diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder in 2012 the first thing I did after getting out of the hospital ...