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Ann-Marie lives with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. From racing thoughts of great projects to hypersexuality, Ann-Marie writes for Mental Health Today about the symptoms of hypomania she can look back and recognise in her teenage self.

Indefinite isolation is anything but a ‘new normal’ for the thousands of patients diagnosed with mental illnesses cooped up in 60 medium-secure mental health hospitals dotted across England and Wales. The majority know neither when they will be discharged, nor what specifically they need to demonstrate in order to regain their liberty. Mental Health Today spent time with a handful of patients just prior to the wider world falling under a desperate lockdown of its own. This interview is the third in our In Secure series. 

If ever there was a moment to choose to see yourself and your child as you both are, it is now.

A philosophy graduate being treated in a medium secure hospital speaks to Mental Health Today about the twin challenges of finding creative outlets and 'positive' medication.

In the course of a few weeks it feels the world has changed, writes cognitive behavioural therapist Michael O'Sullivan. In this piece, he considers what small things we can do to minimise the negative impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on our mental health.