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Our friends in the Hong Kong Writers Circle are launching their 21st anthology at the ...

Issue 11 of The Apostrophe has a sensational cover and standalone portrait by filmmaker Jesus ...

They say “East meets West” - yet for some, east lies far away, and for ...

It didn't feel like an appropriate time to mention it at the time it happened, ...

Mental Ideas extends its heartfelt condolences to all affected by the tragic fire in Tai ...

I was born a Kurd in central Anatolia, Turkey - a minority before I ever ...

With a career spanning more than seven decades, Hong Kong artist George Tang Kwok-wing continues ...

Share your story of how somebody sparked your day and gave you just the right ...

Mental Idealist Sadie had the pleasure of sharing her story with mental health, film and ...

Coming from a traditional family, becoming an artist was never seen as a legitimate path ...

Don’t miss your chance to bag tickets for Mind HK‘s Hong Kong Mental Health Conference on the theme ...

Conceptual Kurdish-Danish artist and columnist Ilos Ilyas Elias Kirkan shares his latest art collection and ...

Mind HK’s summer 2025 exhibition at Our Gallery, Wan Chai, opens this weekend! This one ...

To Love A Narcissist will Italian premiere at the Ariano International Film Festival 2025 next weekend! The festival ...

Mental Ideas is recruiting established and emerging visual artists for Issue 10 of the HKWC's quirky ...

"Creating allows me to be curious. Being curious allows me to be more daring. When ...

To Love A Narcissist will be shown at Cinema Village, New York, during the Socially ...

Mental Ideas could not be more delighted to share that our magical ambassador Mat Ricardo ...

Mental Ideas is excited to announce that Stewart McKay is taking part in a HKILF ...

There has been a surge of artists exploring gender identity and expression. Riding this zeitgeist ...

It's your last chance to view Mind HK and Mindset's Here and Now (Brain Back ...

Thanks to Variety and for publishing this piece by Naman Ramachandran about Sadie Frost joining ...

Issue 5 of The Apostrophe on the theme of 'Food' is out! This one is ...

Contro Vento Films just launched its first official hoodies in collaboration with Tee Mill! The ...

Thanks to poet and academic Ahmed Elbeshlawy for bringing our quirky little podcasts about mental ...

Filming for To Love A Narcissist wrapped on stunning Lake Garda, Italy! The latest trailer ...

The Apostrophe is celebrating its first birthday with the release of a timely issue. The ...

Thanks to Mind HK for the opportunity to take part in Poetry, Stories and Mental ...

Thanks to the China Daily for publishing this article on why we need to change ...

Thanks to everyone who came out to support the Hong Kong Writers Circle's launch of ...

Congratulations to our friends at the Hong Kong Women in Publishing Society for launching their ...

In his first feature-length film since the juggernaut that is Transference went viral on YouTube ...

The 2024 Hong Kong Lit Fest kicks off next week! Mental Ideas will be taking ...

Mental Idealist Sadie Kaye talks Kanye, bipolar causes and symptoms in the South China Morning ...

Join Mental Ideas at Mind HK and Mindset's upcoming full day event of mental health ...

Mental Ideas' inspiring ambassador, showman Mat Ricardo, talks from the heart about how it feels ...

Mental Ideas is collaborating with the Hong Kong Writers Circle on the publication of its ...

Home Kong Kitchen is THREE YEARS OLD!!! Our initiative started as a response to news ...

Congratulations to our ambassador Charles Tang on his Hong Kong Art School graduation art exhibition ...

An exhibition of art, poetry and letters by Mind HK ambassadors de-stigmatising mental health is ...

The annual Proverse Autumn Reception takes place at the Helena May this coming Thursday! Tickets ...

Charles Tang is a Chinese painter who works with different water-based mediums to examine the ...

Mental Ideas has been going wobbly for 3D Jelly Art enthusiast Siamy Tan‘s incredible jelly ...

Mental Ideas has been working with the phenomenal Resolve Foundation on their 2022 fellowship program ...

Transference has received over 19M views on YouTube! According to director and star Raffaello DeGruttola, ...

Mental Ideas founder Sadie Kaye's bipolar Rant was published in the South China Morning Post's ...

Mental Ideas was inspired attending the Bipolar Ambition Art Exhibition at HKU last week featuring ...

Join us at Proverse Publishing for the 2022 Virtual Proverse Spring Reception on Thursday, 28 ...

Mat Ricardo, showman and philosopher, vlogs one simple way to help yourself when you're depressed ...

The psychological drama feature film Mental Ideas helped co-produce has received over 8.5M views on ...

Congratulations to our ambassador and collaborator Raffaello Degruttola for directing the ingenious indie film, Little ...

Subs are open until April 21 for writers and artists to submit their poems, illustrations ...

Ania Epul is an 18-year-old writer studying at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her short ...

Congratulations to our awesome ambassador Simone Lahbib! She won the awards for 'Best First-Time Director' ...

Price's Price is set in a time and place - Hong Kong in the 1960s ...

Thanks to Cinemonic Entertainment Core in LA for selecting The Depressed Comedian episode of our ...

Mental Ideas is looking forward to attending Proverse Publishing's Autumn Reception at the Helena May ...

Mental Ideas had a blast at the 2021 Hong Kong International Lit Fest, which this ...

Submissions for our inaugural Hong Kong International Mental Health Film Festival are open! New York ...

Larry Feign, guest in The Depressed Comedian episode of our Mental Ideas Podcast (clip of ...

Congratulations to our ambassador Rebecca Dandridge-Walker. Her sketch, Delusion, has been breaking the internet since ...

Another lovely accolade from our friends in the migrant community: Bethune House Migrant Women's Refuge ...

Dark skies. Back pain. Heavy bags of salt crystals dissolving in the gutter. These are ...

You can now watch Transference on YouTube, where it has already cruised to 2.2M Views!!! ...

Home Kong Kitchen has been awarded a Happy Homes Award by the Mission For Migrant ...

Mentalist Sadie Kaye will be among the poets reading their work that was recently published ...

Series 2 of our AIB-nominated Mental Ideas Oddcast will be back on the air @ ...

Home Kong Kitchen has been baking a difference to feed Hong Kong’s homeless, migrants in ...

Mentalist Dan Davies offers readers humour, inspiration and perspiration in The Rantings of a Madman on ...

So….. this was our Lunar New Year! How was yours? Home Kong Kitchen‘s INCREDIBLE, DYNAMIC ...

Thanks to the South China Morning Post for this illuminating article by Anthea Rowan comparing ...

Rebecca Dandridge-Walker is a self-taught artist from Camden, London. After specializing in pottery, she started ...

The Year of The Ox is almost upon us and to celebrate Home Kong Kitchen ...

Wishing you all a brighter, bolder, inspired 2021! "Walk with hope and purpose into the ...

Our extraordinary ambassador Mat Ricardo vlogs his first month on antidepressants. Mat is a legend. We ...

HO HO HOme Kong Kitchen more than trebled its goal of making and distributing 100 ...

Mental Ideas Podcaster Sadie Kaye was at the AIBs... kind of... My virtual awards date ...

Transference has been selected by 3 more European film festivals: the European Cinema Festival, the ...

For 26 year old bipolar artist Juliana Kung, art is a way of connecting with ...

Wow – we are BLOWN AWAY by the incredible generosity of our rapidly expanding team ...

"I am a survivor – so far. Not so much because of being trapped at ...

Transference will be globally released by 1091 Pictures Nov 10! Mental Ideas is so proud ...

Thanks to the SCMP for publishing this short read about our Home Kong Kitchen initiative ...

Mentalist Philippe Joly's powerful short film about fighting back NOT TODAY has been selected for ...

The Association for International Broadcasting have published their shortlist for the 2020 AIB Awards – and our Mental Ideas Podcast is one ...

Transference: A Bipolar Love Story has been officially selected by The Hague Global Cinema Festival! ...

To mark #2020 World Suicide Prevention Day, Mental Ideas is proud to premiere short film ...

Adam House, a US combat veteran with PTSD moved to Thailand to train as a ...

With most of our planned summer projects postponed, Mental Ideas has been on a roll ...

This is the last episode so DON'T MISS IT!!! With new material and highlights, Crazy ...

Transference: A Bipolar Love Story received a Special Jury Mention in the Narrative Feature category ...

On today's show, Sadie Kaye talks dirty. Great big wads of dirty cash! You can't ...

First chance to see Transference: A Bipolar Love Story at the New York Socially Relevant ...

Another win for Transference: A Bipolar Love Story - this time the Zoroaster Award at ...

In this week's episode on RTHK Radio 3, Sadie Kaye coins a new catchphrase courtesy ...

Showman Mat Ricardo reminisces about the time he was starting out as a street performer and ...

Transference: A Bipolar Love Story has just been announced the winner of Best Drama Feature ...

Brace yourselves for another “slightly strange” (yeah…) episode of our Mental Ideas Podcast on RTHK ...

Virtual Reality dance-maker Eugenia Kim joins host Sadie Kaye and explains how her bipolar disorder has fuelled her ...

Check out this first cut of short film Intuition, directed by filmmaker, actor and Mental ...

Writer Unblocked showcases original short stories and spoken word to unlock and unblock Hong Kong’s ...

A deadly podcast about Death by Anxious Showman Mat Ricardo is poignantly paired with American actor Dan Davies ...

Rebecca Dandridge-Walker has been beating the UK lockdown blues by experimenting with portraiture. Her lockdown ...

Here’s the joke. The joke is that the way you’re probably feeling now – washing ...

Mental Ideas Podcast host Sadie Kaye’s got a criminal record as long as your arm, ...

Psychopathic actor and entrepreneur Philippe Joly attempts to explain why psychopaths make such great neighbours, CEOs and ...

One type of podcast guest that’s proved easy to secure in the midst of the ...

Transference: A Bipolar Love Story has been offered distribution by NYC's 1091 Pictures. Mental Ideas co-produced ...

Episode 2 of our Mental Ideas Podcast broadcasted last Thursday (April 9) on RTHK Radio ...

Episode 1 of our Mental Ideas Podcast launched on RTHK Radio 3 last Thursday (April 2) ...

Even though the chance of any festival happening this year seems pretty remote (and we ...

AMAZING news just in from New York! Mental Ideas' first feature film Transference: A Bipolar ...

Brexit may be "done", but the Norway Option is still readily available - thanks to ...

Mental Ideas is honored to have been invited to attend the 2020 NIFA Awards in ...

Mental Ideas is collaborating with Contro Vento Films on director Raffaello Degruttola's latest short film ...

The inaugural NIFA Awards (National Independent Film Association, USA) were hosted by Dan Davies at ...

In honour of #WorldMentalHealthDay, I wanted to share my completed illustrative series of paintings that ...

Param Vibe Mirpuri is a fusion artist who fuses his passions for spoken word poetry, ...

Mental Artists Charlotte Farhan, Jade Bryant and Shawn Coss have created their own Inktober prompts ...

Filmmakers Ilze Millere and Carl Bradshaw of Elementi Media are producing their first feature film ...

Mental Ideas ambassador Eugenia Kim is holding an event in Hong Kong from Oct 3-6 ...

Mental Ideas sat down with artist Shawn Coss to discuss his often controversial artistic depiction ...

An honor for Contro Vento Films, director Raffaello Degruttola and the cast & crew of ...

Mental Ideas is proud to have co-produced Contro Vento Films' film Transference: A Bipolar Love ...

That Mat Ricardo is a dark horse! As one of our ambassadors, we're in touch ...

As Bad As It Gets airs on RTHK Radio 3 this coming Sat (July 13) @ 8.30! Check ...

Our second doc for RTHK broadcasted SAT JULY 13 at 8.30 HKT! For those of ...

ExperiMENTAL is our bold new art project and photography exhibition. We've commissioned 10 pro photographers ...

Mental Ideas is working with filmmaker and Mental Ideas ambassador Raffaello Degruttola on co-producing a ...

Mental Ideas is producing a series of short films depicting different mental health conditions through ...

The Mental Ideas Podcast is a weekly program in which filmmaker and RTHK presenter Sadie ...

Mental Ideas utilises the arts and the media to engage and explain mental health in ...

Josh Walters was born in Berkeley, California. In 2001, while attending the San Francisco School ...

Mental Ideas Ambassador and artist-activist Jade Bryant uses art as self-therapy and inspires others to ...

Art saved my life. Not figuratively, but literally. I was at the end of the ...

Mental Ideas discovers, nurtures and champions new talent from Hong Kong and around the world ...

Work by our community of artists, writers, filmmakers, ambassadors, poets, musicians, performers, change-makers and champions! ...

It's not always easy to capture the seriousness of conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder ...

Congratulations to filmmaker Raffaello DeGruttola for directing and delivering an understated acting masterclass in this ...

I'm a believer that anything can be funny. There's nothing that you can't make a ...

Mental Ideas collaborates with its partners in film, publishing, the arts and charity to create ...

Mental Ideas is feeling grateful to RL Industry, the company behind Baker's Secret, for their ...

Thanks to editor Tammy Ho Lai-Ming for publishing our piece about George Tang Kwok-wing's Fine ...

Owen Fitzpatrick is a Social Psychologist, Belief Architect. Author and Speaker on Influence and Impact ...

Genevieve Hilton (writing as Jan Lee) has a new book published: Fairhaven - A Novel ...

Mental Ideas ambassador, Transference and To Love A Narcissist director Raffaello Degruttola on the madness ...

Mental Ideas wishes you good luck, health, prosperity, creativity and magic in the Year of ...

The Hong Kong Women in Publishing Society are open for submissions of short stories (fiction ...

The submissions deadline for the 2022 Proverse Prize and Proverse Poetry Prize for writing previously ...

The International Proverse Prize for book-length works of fiction and 2022 Proverse Poetry Prize (Single ...

Transference was one of the first films playing at the 2021 Arizona International Film Festival ...

RTHK have just launched their annual short story completion, Hong Kong's Top Story! The theme ...

The first in a month-long series of poetry readings by authors and poets published in ...

We can’t believe we're writing this… RIP Reuben M Tuck. Truly one of the funniest, whip ...

This harrowing short film about loss, grief and guilt by Mental Ideas Director and Ambassador ...

Trigger warning - Mental health, depression, talk of the outside world. Seriously – you don’t ...

Filmmaker and Mental Ideas Director & Ambassador Philippe Joly has set himself the quarantine challenge ...

The Proverse Prize is an annual international literary competition for unpublished book-length works of fiction, ...

Of all the powerful and poignant posts we've read about the #BlackLivesMatter protests and movement ...

Following a relatively smooth (considering the backdrop!) launch of the Mental Ideas Podcast as a ...

RTHK Radio 3 have launched their annual English Poetry Competition! Whether you're an experienced poet ...

Mental Ideas wants to publish your Lockdown Love Stories! The stories could be factual or ...

Mental Ideas Ambassador Mat Ricardo has started his own web TV channel, Lockdown TV, broadcasting ...

Episode 1 of our Mental Ideas Podcast lifts off THIS THURSDAY (April 2, 2020) as ...

Mental Ideas hopes to launch a Hong Kong International Mental Health Film Festival (@HKIMHFF) to ...

After receiving a surge of intriguing podcast submissions, Mental Ideas intends to run an annual ...

I’ve talked before about how comforting I find certain places. How when I’m on stage, ...

Transference: A Bipolar Love Story‘s world premiere at the New York Socially Relevant Film Festival ...

Our incredible ambassador Dan Davies is currently starring in Nollywood box office smash A Trip ...

A special screening of our ambassador Raffaello Degruttola's BIFA-nominated comedy film FLIM The Movie plus ...

American poet, artist, musician and mental health campaigner Laura Konowal writes about her ongoing struggles ...

I created this piece to signify how technology creates information overload and thus placed the ...

Jade Bryant is a prodigiously talented young artist and Mental Ideas ambassador. Her art is ...

Quadratura is an experimental short film by Elementi Media about visiting your life's memories and ...

Mental Ideas took part in a panel discussion to mark 2019 World Mental Health Day ...

Congratulations to our ambassador Raffaello DeGruttola! His experiMENTAL short film has reached semi-finalist status at ...

Mental Ideas' globetrotting Resident Photographer Enrique ('Ricky') Sadiosa has spent 5 years traveling the world ...

Do you ever stare at your kid in disbelief and ask questions like: Why does ...

Sexual violence is not prejudice. It can happen to anyone, inflicting immediate and lasting damage ...

I have a list in my head, constantly updated, of favourite places to sit. It's ...

Mental Ideas is blessed to have the beautiful, brave and multi-talented Simone Lahbib as one ...

Thanks to Laurence Fuller (Road To The Well, Paint It Red) for sharing with us ...

A time comes in your life when you finally get it... When in the midst ...

Mental Idealist Philippe Joly received coverage in the SCMP this week talking about Bruce Lee's ...

After eight months of working on the production of this film, I am proud to ...

American-born cartoonist and author Larry Feign is an award-winning cartoonist, artist and writer, best known ...

Mental Ideas Ambassador Raffaello DeGruttola gets hustled by Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson on a ...

Digital healthcare is emerging as an attractive alternative to mental health treatment, with an increasing ...

Eugenia Kim is a PhD student, originally from the USA, who's been living in Hong ...

The Welsh industrial town of Port Talbot, famed for its steelworks, could become a destination ...

The Aspect of Bipolar That Led to Being Wrongfully Arrested on a Plane…Twice! A turbulent ...

A chance to view Mental Ideas Ambassador Mat Ricardo's insightful and entertaining TEDX podcast, 'Embracing ...

A look back at some of the most catastrophic selfie fails in modern memory... As ...

Day-glo yellow vests are an indelible symbol of the “gilets jaunes” protests that have gripped ...

Thanks to Hong Kong Buzz for publishing this interview about MENTAL IDEAS! We really appreciate ...

TV presenter and author James McIntosh combats his depression by knitting and nibbling his way ...

Will Pullen was raised in Hong Kong, before moving to London. He's now a BACP ...

Mat Ricardo hits back at the Peep Show star's attack on street performers. And he ...

To celebrate International Day of Unplugging, a 24-hour global respite from technology, Mental Ideas will ...

The choreographer and artist Alexandra Pirici likens her work to a transmission whose precise message ...

Suicide is a decision so impetuous that I don’t think it even qualifies as a ...

One of the highlights of our inaugural Mental Ideas Film Festival is guaranteed to be ...

Charlotte Farhan is an artist, illustrator, writer, activist and Mental Ideas Ambassador. She's co-founder and ...

Owen Fitzpatrick is Mental Ideas' globetrotting psychologist from Dublin. He has travelled to more than ...

Ambassador and showman Mat Ricardo is guest speaking at an event at the National Gallery ...

95% of us view our dogs like family and it’s not hard to see why ...

Mental Ideas wants your original recipes, provocative theories and entertaining stories of bold culinary experimentation ...

Entrepreneur and restaurateur Ajay Relan is the LA-based brains behind #HashtagLunchbag, the initiative that encourages ...

SHUSH! We’ve compiled a library of noisy op-eds and controversial articles on mental health from ...

Jade Bryant practices art as self-help therapy to alleviate the stress of her borderline personality ...

The Score... There are so many love songs. So many artists, so many writers and ...

The irreverent sequel to Sadie Kaye's 2015 documentary Bipolar Express will air on RTHK Radio 3 ...

The night we filmed No Way Home – Stop the Traffick on the streets of ...

Meet Mat Ricardo: Mental Ideas Ambassador & Showman Extraordinaire! Fast Hands. Smart Mouth. Nice Suit ...

Ever since I was a teenager, for periods of months at a time, I have ...

The trouble with creative work: Sometimes by the time people catch on to what's valuable ...

Mental Ideas is redesigning the humble egg cup! Winner wins a trophy, a carton of ...

Mental Ideas provides access to arts, film and media opportunities for artists coping with “invisible” ...

Good Is The New Cool is a movement formed to mobilize and inspire individuals who ...

This week I've been mostly feeling empty. All my energy bars depleted. Desperately in need ...

Bipolar Hong Kong is Hong Kong’s first peer-led bipolar support group. Founded by Sadie Kaye ...

Sometimes getting started is the hardest thing... Living in the suburb of Clearwater Bay, I ...

Bipolar Express is an irreverent 30-minute roller coaster through the euphoric highs and debilitating lows ...

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Diagnosis of bipolar shot up after this was made and it briefly became the diagnosis ...

Like many of us, I felt the bruises of my mental health issues before I ...

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