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Picturing mental health
| Lalita KaplishSolomon Szekir-Papasavva
Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?
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My illness made me an activist, but now I’m exhausted
| Emily BashforthStephanie Wynne
Emily Bashforth’s illness made her an advocate but now she’s battling burnout. She argues why we all need to be mental health activists, not just those with lived experience.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
| Douglas SmallBenjamin Gilbert
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Winter blues and the story of SAD
| Linda Geddes
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).