“Have You Tried Being Happy?”

April 18, 20181 Comment

By Adya Choudhary

“At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distinction.” – Michelle Obama

I came across this quote the other day as I was scrolling through my Facebook feed. It’s an interesting idea, to liken a mental illness to a physical one. Depression and anxiety seem far removed from a broken arm or leg – but, at their core, are they really that different? Continue reading →

Borderline personality disorder and back-foot medicine

September 25, 2017Leave a comment

By Keyur Doolabh

It’s becoming generally accepted that mental illnesses are not under our control – they’re not something we can just snap out of. But even among many mental health workers, there’s a condition where we seem slow to realise this: borderline personality disorder.

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Do Better: On the pursuit of perfection

September 20, 2017September 20, 2017Leave a comment

By Mary Crabtree

Do better. Be better. Think better. We are relentlessly slammed with this pressure to do and be and think better. It comes from inside our own heads, and from an illusion that medical students should be able to ‘handle it’. We are inflated by those fleeting moments of praise from a consultant or an inspiring patient encounter, but this feeling is too often swiftly replaced by an overwhelming sense of inadequacy.

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