How Stress Can Affect Mental Health
This Stress Awareness month, we’re considering how stress affects people differently and what to look for if you’re stressed. Although stress is not a mental illness, it can be the cause of, and the symptom of one. Some people are more responsive to stressful situations and...
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How Stress Can Affect Mental Health
This Stress Awareness month, we’re considering how stress affects people differently and what to look for if you’re stressed. Although stress is not a mental illness, it can be the cause of, and the symptom of one. Some people are more responsive to stressful situations and...
Open Minds podcast
Top Episodes of the Month
Episode: Dr Max Taquet and Why Some People Develop Brain Fog
The effects of Covid-19 on brain function and mental health, as well as the reasons for flaws in diagnosis of psychiatric illness, are all discussed...
Episode: Professor Kathryn Abel and Improving Children’s and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
In this episode of our MQ Open Mind podcast, Professor Rory O’Connor and Craig Perryman chat with two guests Professor Kathryn Abel and mother Haley...
Episode: Louise Arseneault and Collaboration in Research
Fresh from having a new paper published, Professor Louise Arseneault, Professor of Developmental Psychology at Kings College London, joined the MQ...
Personal stories
How Stress Can Affect Mental Health
This Stress Awareness month, we’re considering how stress affects people differently and what to look for if you’re stressed. Although stress is not a mental illness, it can be the cause of, and the symptom of one. Some people are more responsive to stressful...
Stress The Point: Stress vs Mental Illness
April is Stress Awareness Month so to be aware of stress, honour it and deal with it appropriately, it’s important to be clear in the distinction that stress is not a mental health condition although it can be the cause of and the symptom of one. We perhaps in society...
The Art of Destressing: How Creativity Creates Less Stress
Whether it’s painting, drawing, sculpting, cooking, knitting, sewing, writing, singing, playing music, dancing, the arts play a big role in our overall mental and physical health as well as our communities. For me, I realised in my ongoing journey of mental health...
How Stress Can Affect Mental Health
This Stress Awareness month, we’re considering how stress affects people differently and what to look for if you’re stressed. Although stress is not a mental illness, it can be the cause of, and the symptom of one. Some people are more responsive to stressful...
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