Remembering Nick Wilkes

Remembering Nick Wilkes

John and Susan Wilkes, long term supporters of MQ Mental Health Research, remember their son Nick Wilkes who died by suicide ten years ago in 2014. John and Susan’s support helps fund vital research to prevent others losing their lives to suicide in the future. Here...
Can Eating Disorders Change?

Can Eating Disorders Change?

Some people might think a mental illness gets diagnosed and then remains one condition for a person’s life. However mental illnesses can shift and change throughout life. This is just one reason why language around mental health is so important, for example calling...
What Happens The Day Someone Is Sectioned For Anorexia?

What Happens The Day Someone Is Sectioned For Anorexia?

This Eating Disorders Awareness Week, MQ’s copywriter Juliette Burton who also works as a writer, comedian, and mental health activist, shares her experience of what happened the day she was sectioned under the mental health act for anorexia.   When I was 17 it...