Criminalisation means survivors are vulnerable to blackmail to avoid imprisonment and stigma, but there is hope the colonial-era legislation could soon be repealedIt was when the police knocked on Aatifa Farooqui’s* door and threatened to send her to p…
気候変動の影響で「未来を恐れる」若者が増えている：心理学者が語る異常気象とメンタルヘルスの関係
加速する気候変動について研究者が10カ国の若者に調査したところ、「未来が怖い」「人類の未来は絶望的」といった回答が半数を超えた。重大な自然災害に晒されることで未来に対する恐怖感が生まれるばかりか、失われたものや消えつつあるものを思って喪失感を覚える「エコロジカル・グリーフ」も深刻化している。こうした現状について、今回の調査報告の共同執筆者でもある心理学者のスーザン・クレイトンに訊いた。
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Mental health charity declines donation from Jamie Lynn Spears
Britney Spears’s younger sister has had her offer to give proceeds from her forthcoming book to the non-profit organisation This Is My Brave turned downJamie Lynn Spears’s offer to donate some of the proceeds from her forthcoming memoir to a mental hea…
Family of vulnerable man found dead in Dorset prison demand reforms
Call follows inquest jury conclusion that there was a string of failings in care of Anthony ClacherThe family of a vulnerable prisoner found hanged in his cell have called for improvements in how inmates with mental health issues are cared for after an…
ThoughtFull gets $1.1M seed to make mental health support more accessible in Southeast Asia
Depression and anxiety were taking a serious toll on peoples’ well-being even before COVID-19, and the pandemic prompted more interest (and venture capital) in mental health startups. While many of the highest profile mental health startups, like Calm or Headspace Health, are based in the United States, more attention is also being paid to emotional […]
Louis Wain’s anthropomorphic cats to go on display at Bethlem museum
Eccentric artist was famed for outlandish drawings produced while a patient at ‘Bedlam’ psychiatric hospital“He has made the cat his own,” HG Wells once said of Louis Wain. “English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of the…
Devon teenagers inspire English schools with mental health resources
Spark UK was formed by four children who have developed lesson plans, newsletters and videosThey are busy studying for GCSEs and A-levels but four teenagers from Devon have also found time to develop lesson plans, newsletters and videos on mental healt…
Sindhu Vee and her father go back in time: ‘As a child, I was always copying him’
The comedian and her dad recreate a childhood photo and talk about early days in India, agoraphobia and swapping banking for comedy Born in New Delhi in 1969, Sindhu Vee spent her childhood in India and the Philippines, before throwing herself into aca…
Ready, steady … oh. Can a life coach shake me out of my pandemic-induced ennui?
It started in bed one morning when I realised I hadn’t had an original thought for months. I needed someone to make me wake upFor some reason it takes me two and a half hours to email my life coach. I write “email life coach guy” on my to-do list. I ha…
‘These salt marshes saved my life’: how nature is helping mental health
Green social prescribing, where people are referred to nature projects, on the rise across UK“It sounds dramatic, but this place saved my life,” says Wendy Turner, looking out over the Steart salt marshes in Somerset. “I am really loving the colours of…