Why I didn’t take medication for my anxiety by John Apples
I was 16 when I first experienced social anxiety. I was on a half empty train to London when it pulled up at the last stop and then, a tsunami of passengers spilled onto the train. I panicked as I got squeezed amongst the passengers and broke into a cold sweat that drenched my entire […]
“What soothes you?” asks Hopezine summer 2022
This pretty edition of summer 2022 Hopezine has been brought to you by students studying A-level photography at Stafford College. Its’ been inspired by Project Soothe, a citizen science project that urges participants to photograph what soothes them and to share this with others. Leah Greenaway-Lewis has been guest editor of this issue and shared […]
Identity, disclosure and mental illness
Tweetster @Joe0Tuesday writes about telling people about your mental illness “Hi, my name is Joe and I have schizophrenia!” Is that how you’d expect to start a conversation with someone you don’t know? Would it shock you? Whether you are from within the mental health community or not it is quite a lot to comprehend […]
Do people with mental illness make better artists?
Many papers cover creativity and mental illness. Here, Hopezine Editor Erica Crompton delves into the discussion… Abstract Many papers have written about creativity and mental illness, and whether mental illnesses can improve creativity (Waddell, 1998). This report aims to address this conundrum. Furthermore, according to Waddell, there are limited scientific papers that evidence an association […]