Calling for schizophrenia research
For the 24 million people who live with the schizophrenia worldwide, a change in attitudes and approach is essential.
Health
Mental Health Awareness Week: Processing anxiety
With increased pressure in everyday life, anxiety can become a big problem, preventing you from carrying out basic tasks. Understanding anxiety and reaching out for support can help.
International Women’s Day: The truth about disability and menopause
This International Women’s Day, Dr Samantha Wild, clinical lead for women’s health at Bupa Health Clinics, shines a light on the physical and emotional challenges disabled people may face when they reach menopausal age – and what support is available.
Mental health: Caring for your mind
As winter continues, looking after your mental health, seeking support and acknowledging how you are feeling is essential.
Highlighting menopause: Carly Tait on the fight for a diagnosis
British wheelchair athlete Carly Tait is ready to share her battle for a menopause diagnosis and raise awareness of what is medically known as premature ovarian insufficiency.
National Schizophrenia Awareness Day: reducing stigma
About one in every 300 people in the world live with schizophrenia, but stigma and misconceptions have led to a need for change to improve quality of life and outcomes for people with the condition.
Bowel cancer: spotting the signs and seeking support
As the family of Dame Deborah James mark her passing, her legacy lives on helping to raise awareness of the symptoms of bowel cancer.
MS Awareness Week: my MS story
Affecting an estimated 110,000 people in the UK, MS can impact everyone in a unique way. Here, two people share their experiences.
In the kitchen with Healthy Living James
Food blogger James Wythe shares a recipe, discusses his journey with ME, how cooking helped his recovery and his new cookbook.
HEALTH: Understanding sleep and pain
Sleep is an essential function, allowing our minds and bodies to recharge, develop and heal from illness. Despite its importance, as many as 16 million adults in the UK experience sleepless nights with nearly a quarter having no more than five hours of sleep each night.
Children’s mental health: growing together
It’s time to take action around young people’s mental wellbeing and growth.
Menopause awareness: the M word and you
A passage in life that happens to all women and people with a cervix, despite half the population going through the menopause it is still continually misdiagnosed and misunderstood.
FIRST HAND: a Mencap campaign assistant shares their experience of getting the COVID-19 vaccine
As people across the UK continue to get the first and second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Vijay, a campaign assistant at Mencap who has a learning disability himself, shares his experience .
Brain scans powered by artificial intelligence could diagnose dementia in a day
Pre-clinical trials run by the University of Cambridge show that artificial intelligence may soon allow doctors to diagnose dementia in a single day.
Processing social anxiety as the UK reopens post-pandemic
The course of the coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly caused stress and anxiety for millions of people, but as restrictions ease, a new wave of social anxiety is preventing some from returning to normal life.