mental health awareness

On this week's episode Steph and Glenn diverge from the normal political rants to bring you a special episode on Mental Health. They’re joined in studio with Grayce Leonard, journalist with First Fortnight - an Irish mental health…

Curled up in the Boole Library, I am sipping hot coffee and marvelling at the past four years. I survived an undergraduate degree with chronic anorexia nervosa. Nothing is harder than fighting a demon that whispers you don’t deserve to be…

Why Are Minority Groups Statistically Less Likely to Seek Help for Mental Health Problems? According to a study released in May 2018, black Californians are more likely to suffer with mental health issues than other ethnicities, but are…

Every night after the RTÉ news the weather comes on and a soft-spoken Met Éireann meteorologist calmly delivers their prediction on the conditions for the days ahead. However, there is an alternative way of reading the weather and as…

On a New Year’s day Sparking Change Dil talks about how we need to view mental health as being much more than just an illness but a natural part of the human experience. Let’s be honest, being a young person these days can be hard…

I meet Stephen Considine, Cameron Ridyard and Luke Bulmer, the founders of the clothing line BiPolar Bear Wear in a Dublin city-centre café instead of in their premises for one simple reason: they don’t have one. Instead, the clothing line…

The article was written by someone I liked. By someone erudite and more importantly, compassionate.  Someone who understood mental illness. Who joked about it, but offered insight. And he wrote about suicide.  About the comfort it can offer…