The car stopped at the traffic lights and the girl in the passenger seat looked over. I caught her glance as I pushed my bike with its broken chain slowly up the steep hill in the pouring rain towards the train station, dressed only in shorts and a T-shirt, soaked to the skin. And rather […]
At one of my lowest points with my eating disorder, just thinking about food was enough to induce a panic attack. I was 21 and had spent years feeling ashamed of myself for being overweight. Now I was avoiding eating until it hurt, suffering painful stomach cramps from hunger and feeling like a failure for […]
DR ELLIE CANNON: I’m going to stick my neck on the line…I don’t think there will be a second wave It feels like we are a nation divided – over whether or not we plan to go for a pint next Saturday. There are those who, come July 4, will be treating themselves to a […]
Back in 2009, I went on a 10-day vacation to Barcelona with my best girlfriends from school. I was 19, and being in this vibrant city with my girls, the trip was filled with drinking and partying. Right after I got back home to the UK, I started having symptoms of what I thought was […]
In 2010, I was a 22-year-old college student when I suddenly started having the constant urge to pee. During the day, I had to go to the restroom 15 or more times, and at night I went another three or more times (which is not normal for someone drinking a typical amount of water every […]
In these challenging times of fear and isolation it is difficult to comprehend the sheer scale of the mental health crisis we face. People are detached from friends, family, work and the world outside their homes. As a music therapist I have also had to adapt to make sure those who are in need are […]
As a survivor of sexual assault, being “weird” about sex is far from unusual: Why wouldn’t we fear the act that was used as a weapon against us? Or, as Sarah Melancon, Ph.D. and Clinical Sexologist, asked over the phone: “If you survived an airplane crash, nobody would be shocked if you had a phobia […]
Why I have decided to leave my brain to science: BBC star Rory Cellan-Jones hopes his donation will help scientists beat the Parkinson’s he suffers from Parkinson’s disease is a neurological condition affecting 145,000 Britons A year after his diagnosis, Rory’s symptoms are confined to a mild shake Medication provides some relief for sufferers but […]
Coronavirus hit me the same day it did the Prime Minister. Unlike Boris Johnson though, it took me well over a week to get a diagnosis of Covid-19 infection – although still unconfirmed by a test – with a bonus case of pneumonia. During the last 12 days of illness I have escaped into a […]
One Sunday evening, I got a text from a friend: She’d read that the NewYork-Presbyterian health care system was going to ban spouses and partners from the delivery room due to efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by novel coronavirus. At that point, it was the day before I was scheduled […]
