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Migraine, creativity and me

Novelist Lydia Ruffles explores how migraine has made her mind stretch, shrink, widen and change, and how it’s influenced her art.

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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions

Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?

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In search of the ‘nature cure’

Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.

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Happy Joy Smile

Drawn from real-life experiences, this short story depicts a character negotiating the UK’s current mental health system. Discover what happens as they encounter waiting lists, sketchy healthcare and punitive government bureaucracy.

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  • John Tyndall demonstrating a fog-horn to Queen Victoria and her entourage. Wood engraving by T. B. Wirgman, c.1876.
  • People purchasing drinks from a cocoa vendor as others sit resting under a tree in fog. Lithograph by Engelmann after S. Baptiste, 1827.
  • Meteorology: the sun in Baffin Bay disperses thick fog in the shape of a semicircle. Coloured etching by P. Fumagalli, 1827, after B. O'Reilly.
  • The Illustrated London News, volume 10, Jan
  • A man covering his mouth with a handkerchief, walking through a smoggy London street. Coloured aquatint.
  • Cows and sheep by an upland stream with a goat standing in the water. Engraving by J. Cousen after T. S. Cooper.
  • The highwayman Dick Turpin, on horseback, sees a phantom riding next to him. Lithograph by W. Clerk, ca. 1839.
  • Death, as a policeman, approaches a ragged woman and her baby in a London park. Colour wood engraving by M. Morgan, 1867.
  • Gripe, resfrios : Cequigripe Roussel / Laboratorios Roussel Perú S.A.
  • A woman standing in a brown vortex, making a helpless gesture, with purple trees and cloud. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
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