Exploding Mental Health!
If you like your therapy with a side of sass, check out Hackney Therapist Kelly Field‘s witty responses to this week’s The Writer’s Gauntlet! Since the column is already being … Continue Reading Witty Therapy – The Writer’s Gauntlet
Our founder Sadie Kaye‘s new weekly column for The Hooghly Review launched last week with the absolutely fabulous Helen Lederer, award-winning author, comedian and founder of the Comedy Women in Print Prize. Helen’s memoir Not … Continue Reading The Writer’s Gauntlet – Sadie Kaye vs Helen Lederer
Home Kong Kitchen mascot Mojo‘s review of a Hong Kong restaurant has been published by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. You can read every woof here: https://chajournal.com/2026/04/22/foodie-review
Mental Ideas founder Sadie Kaye’s bipolar Rant was published in the South China Morning Post’s Post Magazine June 12 – any excuse to push buttons (and rant!) Your suggestions for a new … Continue Reading Pressing Buttons – A Bipolar War Story
Ania Epul is an 18-year-old writer studying at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her short story, Collateral Damage, published for the first time by Mental Ideas, draws on her own internal … Continue Reading Collateral Damage – Ania Epul
Price’s Price is set in a time and place – Hong Kong in the 1960s to 80s – where mental health issues were more often dismissed than discussed. The main … Continue Reading Price’s Price – Chris Maden
Larry Feign, guest in The Depressed Comedian episode of our Mental Ideas Podcast (clip of Larry and chatting to host Sadie Kaye @ The AIBs below) has a new book out! 🙌 You … Continue Reading From The Depressed Comedian to As Happy As Larry (Feign)
Adam House, a US combat veteran with PTSD moved to Thailand to train as a Muay Thai instructor that helped him fight his PTSD. He’s since written a book about his … Continue Reading How Muay Thai Helped Me Fight My PTSD – Veteran Adam House
Trigger warning – Mental health, depression, talk of the outside world. Seriously – you don’t need to read this! It’s all changed, hasn’t it? Right from the basics, on up. … Continue Reading Four Months – Mat Ricardo
I’ve talked before about how comforting I find certain places. How when I’m on stage, performing, I often feel like the optimum version of myself – a relaxed and confident … Continue Reading Dressing Rooms by Mat Ricardo
American poet, artist, musician and mental health campaigner Laura Konowal writes about her ongoing struggles with anxiety and bipolar disorder in her own lyrical style… Two themes clearly stand out in … Continue Reading Too Much – Laura Konowal
Do you ever stare at your child, tween or teen in disbelief and ask questions like: Why do they screw up school? Why can’t they be more like Jay or … Continue Reading WTF Is Wrong With My Kid??! Patricia Bush Explodes Dyspraxia
A time comes in your life when you finally get it… When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the … Continue Reading The Awakening – Sam Brennan
American-born cartoonist and author Larry Feign is an award-winning cartoonist, artist and writer, best known as the creator of the ‘Lily Wong’ series of cartoons and books. His work has appeared in L’Hebdo, the … Continue Reading Award-Winning Cartoonist Larry Feign signs up to Mental Ideas!
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