Take Your Pills is a Netflix documentary (87 minutes, March 2018), directed by Alison Klayman: A review on Rotten Tomatoes says: “The pressure to achieve more, do more, and be more is part of being human – and in the age of…
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#Emerging Proud is a grassroots social movement aimed at re-framing ‘madness’ as a catalyst for positive transformation. The people involved with #Emerging Proud say that it’s: “… ultimately a campaign about providing hope; that breaking down does not mean we…
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NEON (Narrative Experiences Online) is a large-scale research study running from 2017-2022. It looks at whether having online access to people’s stories of personal recovery from mental ill-health can help people experiencing psychosis and other mental health challenges with their…
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The New Psychology of Health was published in May 2018 and is co-authored by Catherine Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Tegan Cruwys, Genevieve Dingle and Alex Haslam. The publishers say: “Why do people who are more socially connected live longer and have better health than those…
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Damian Scarf experienced the debilitating effects of anxiety first hand when, shortly after entering university, he was pushed to cut off his social groups to achieve higher grades. Now it’s the topic of his research, and Damian shows us first…
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The BBC says (May 30th, 2018): “Dr Chris van Tulleken is on a mission to understand why we’re giving over three times more medicine to our kids today than we did 40 years ago. He looks into one of the…
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The BBC says (May 23rd, 2018): “Two years ago, Dr Chris van Tulleken discovered we are taking more prescription drugs than ever before – a billion prescriptions a year in the UK. He worked with a GP (General Practice) surgery…
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Written by Mary O’Hagan (2014), the publishers say: “After her journey through madness Mary O’Hagan realized the mental health system and society did more harm than good. ‘Madness Made Me’ is a myth-busting account of madness and our customary responses…
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From a blog post by Dr. Charlie Heriot-Maitland on the Compassionate Mental Health website: “Our brains are naturally very good at adapting and responding to our environments. That is, after all, how we’ve survived (in an evolutionary sense), but these built-in adaptive processes…
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The publishers of this 2018 book (written by Joachim P. Sturmberg) say: “This forward-looking volume challenges professionals and interested lay readers to reconsider our ways of looking at health and wellness, illness and disease, and the goals of health/healthcare systems. Reframing…
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