Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience of self-isolating with her children in Southsea. It’s Day 17 and Maddie is negotiating anxiety, the endless patience required for parenting, and [… read more ]
Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience of self-isolating with her children in Southsea. It’s Day 15, and Maddie finds inspiration in human kindness at the supermarket, as she [… read more ]
Carolyn Barber of Portsmouth’s Good Mental Health Cooperative, and local researcher and social entrepreneur, shares advice and resources on how to manage your mental health in lockdown. If you said that you planned to run [… read more ]
Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience of self-isolating with her children in Southsea. It’s Day 12 and Maddie says a short goodbye to the kids as they visit [… read more ]
By Philip Wilson Insecurity Maturity Are one and the same They play the same game Insecurity gives you the belief everyone is against you True But also weirdly the strength to find an answer To [… read more ]
By Philip Wilson Should I? The time is nigh To pop the question Because being a bastion Of fragility Has to change one day You may Find you like it… Being engulfed in a [… read more ]
Continuing our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voices project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – Sharon Ogundele, a pupil at St Edmund’s School, shares her [… read more ]
An estimated 250,000 people in the UK suffer from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), with roughly a quarter of these patients house- or bed-bound. But research into the condition is significantly underfunded as less than 1% of [… read more ]
Contrary to the dominant view, Johann Hari’s important new book Lost Connections argues that depression is caused largely by social factors. University of Portsmouth Senior Lecturer and author of Madness, Power and the Media, Dr [… read more ]
Depression and anxiety are at record levels in the UK. Claire Pearse explores the potential of role-playing games to boost confidence and self-esteem amongst young adults. Imagine you’re in the depths of an enchanted forest; [… read more ]
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