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Mental health / Views

My parents don’t want me to go on ADHD medication. What now?

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I self-diagnosed CDS, an attention disorder I’d never heard of

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A backdoor abortion was my only choice. We must decriminalise abortion now

Mental health

I thought I wanted to harm my baby: why we must talk about postnatal anxiety and OCD

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I spent a year as a self-diagnosed autistic. Here’s what I learnt

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Learning to breastfeed for fun, not food

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Gout isn’t just for men who drink too much — women get it, too

No-one told me about the link between the pill, gut health, and SIBO

Why people ghost their therapists

I’m non-binary. Here’s my journey with the mini pill

We need to start treating anorexia as a chronic disease

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Mental health

What is social prescribing?

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Learning to adjust my sex life with lupus

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I can’t ‘adult’ due to chronic illness, but I won’t be ashamed

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Queer and PoC-specific therapy is lifesaving, and it taught me to accept myself

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Accepting inverted nipples in a world obsessed with body symmetry

I had an abortion because of the Home Office — and I’m not alone

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Why women may be more prone to health anxiety

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Inside the mental health crisis of Chinese university students in the UK

Here’s how I’m learning to reframe contraception as a queer experience

Why I sometimes like my chronic pain

No-one warned me about antidepressant withdrawal syndrome

My heart condition was dismissed as me being fat and anxious

Grieving the loss of an unwanted pregnancy

It took two thirds of my life to diagnose me with endometriosis

Being transmasculine in spaces where women fear men

I experience sudden sadness and disconnect after sex

What happened after I got an ‘abnormal’ smear test result

My hypersexuality isn’t ‘sex addiction’, it’s a response to abuse

My UTI nearly killed me

Gynaecology’s obsession with ‘virginity’ fails queer Muslims

Focus on me, not my male partner, when treating my vaginismus

I am a South Asian girl. It’s culture, not religion, that doesn’t value me

Depression and brain fog: when basic tasks seem impossible

Can stress disrupt hormone function?

It’s harder for BME women to access mental health care. Here’s why

We spoke to women about dealing with miscarriage

The mental health care crisis in prison is killing women

We need to talk about eating disorders in older women

We need to talk about how PTSD affects women too

The crisis of transgender women in prison

Why is mental health such a taboo in BME communities?

We need to talk about how ovarian cancer affects mental health

How does MS affect mental health?

How coming out can affect mental health

Why austerity is devastating for maternal mental health