Mental Health Blogs

Discover the best independent blogs about mental health on BlogRolly.

• How StackCoach Uses Your Labs to Recommend Smarter Peptide Stacks — Introducing StackCoach.net - Learn about Peptides and how StackCoach uses your bloodwork to build smarter, evidence-base
• The Weight We Carry: How Stress Affects Immunity in Black Women — Stress kills, literally. Here I unpack how stress affects immunity in Black women, explain the weathering effect and lin
• You Are Not Failing: Navigating Student Loan Debt, Mental Health, and Wage Garnishment — Not failing, just navigating a broken system. As a former nonprofit worker turned financial strategist, I walk Black wom
• The Overlooked Impact of Induced Menopause — Ever wondered how induced menopause reshapes life after cancer? In Episode 12 I talk to Michelle Hindle about sudden inf
• How does menopause change my brain?! — What if your brain changes years before your periods stop? I've been perimenopausal for eight years and in this post I e
• 7 ways to overcome anxiety and stay calm — Struggling to feel calm while wired to your phone? As a coach who has guided thousands of women, I share 7 practical way
• The 54321 Technique: A Simple Way to Outsmart Panic Attacks (Yes, You Can!) — Ever had a panic attack crash a grocery trip or a presentation? In this post I guide you step by step through the 54321
• Box breathing: How breathing differently can improve your mental health — Ever felt your breath go shallow in a stressful moment? I walk you through how to box breathe, a simple diaphragmatic br
• Tips for students with ADHD
• How to take care of your mental health when life gets in the way
• The Difference Between Learning to Cope Better and Actually Healing
• Peyronies Disease, Self Image, and Performance Anxiety: What You Need to Know — Struggling with Peyronies disease and performance anxiety? In this post I show how Peyronies disease and erectile dysfun
• Dating Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder : How to Identify the Symptoms — Dating someone with intense highs and lows can feel like emotional whiplash. In this post I outline how to tell if you'r
• How to Stop Stress and Anxiety From Triggering Past Trauma : 5 Tips — Feeling your past flare up during stress? I offer 5 practical tips on how to stop stress and anxiety from triggering pas
• How to Support Your Partner with Anxiety — Want real ways to support your partner with anxiety? As someone with GAD I give practical, compassionate tips on how to
• Breaking the Silence and Giving a Voice to Women in the System — Incarceration should not be the end of the story. As someone who has lived through addiction and the system, I'm breakin
• Drama in real life: Moving Mom to memory care — What do you do when the place that keeps Mom safe says she needs memory care? I write about the day they called, the hea
• The First $10,000 is the Most Important — Think $100k is life changing? I once thought so, until the first $10,000 changed my life. I map the Wealth Ladder, expla
• You Can’t Put a Price on Mental Freedom — What if a single stock steals your peace of mind? Years ago I stopped buying individual stocks. First it was performance
• What Facing Uterine Cancer and the Reminder of Death Brought Up for Me — Facing uterine cancer taught me to hold hope and hard truths at the same time. This post recounts my endometrial cancer
• 8 Mental Health Tips for Parents + Educators — Practical, classroom-ready and parent-friendly tips to support teens' wellbeing. I outline 8 mental health tips for pare
• Helping a friend with their mental health — Want simple, practical tips on how to help a friend with their mental health? I write honest, everyday advice on support
• Navigating the post-sex blues (post-coital dysphoria) — Ever felt tearful after sex? This post explains post-sex blues, also called post-coital dysphoria or post-coital tristes
• Redefining Masculinity: A Path to Better Health — A silent crisis is costing men years of life and healthier relationships. Inside, I trace how men's health and masculini
• Am I Just Too Mentally Ill To Even Try To Date? — Here's a compassionate, practical reply where I guide an 18 year old trans reader through dating with mental illness, be
• Meditation Didn't Rewire My Brain - Life Did — Meditation gets all the credit, but your brain is being reshaped by everything you do. Explore the real science of neuro
• Unraveling the Past, Rebuilding the Future — How do you rebuild from heartbreak, failure, a future you didn't plan for? How do you pick yourself up from the pain? Ho
• Emotions and Stuff — Ever signed up for a shadow work class and ended up more honest than after therapy? I write about raw group sessions, fi
• Shameless — Sick of feeling judged? I explain how I became shameless, why slut-shaming says more about them than you, and simple ste
• Puberty Pupdate: Psychological Changes — One year on testosterone showed me how messy mental health and HRT can be. I write about a Bipolar II diagnosis, early h
• When psychologists mislead us — Think the Stanford Prison Experiment proved innate cruelty? In this piece I retrace Piltdown Man and landmark cases like
• OCD In the News: Dax Shepard & Camila Cabello — Angry and reflective, I respond to Dax Shepard OCD comments on Armchair Expert and praise Camila Cabello OCD honesty abo
• What is OCD? — Ever wondered what is OCD beyond tidy habits? In this post I explain symptoms of OCD and how the amygdala and brain crea
• The Horovendoush Day — Ever frozen at the sight of a needle? In this post I write about finally facing a blood draw despite my OCD driven needl
• Painting the Roses Red... — What happens when you stop painting the roses red? I write about finally sitting through a blood draw despite a long his
• Anti-Hero — An honest note about living with OCD, imposter syndrome and grief. I describe finally facing my needle phobia at a blood
• Keeping Score — Nervous at the clinic, I surprised myself by watching the needle and facing long-held blood draw anxiety. I write about
• Who are you? — Needles used to terrify me, but this time I watched my blood flow into the vial. My NOCD.com ERP therapy helped me engag
• OCD Subset Highlight: Magical Thinking — A blood draw taught me more about OCD than years of worry. I recount watching my own blood and facing needle anxiety wit
• The complete idiot's guide to living an authentic life... — Ever felt like a chameleon, changing to fit everyone else? In this candid post I admit decades of people pleasing and OC
• The chicken or the egg... — Needles used to terrify me, but my latest blood draw felt like a small victory after years of OCD and avoidance. I expla
• The Hate is still Out There — A disturbing case in Navan where a gay teenager was beaten and the Gardaí released suspects without charge pushed me to
• Mental Health and Graduate Studies — Graduate student mental health matters. Responding to Nature's report, I reflect on mental health in graduate studies, p
• Fear of Falling — Ever wondered why we say "fell" versus "had a fall"? A slip in my wet garden left a small gash and a bruised ego, and se
• Mind & body — Startling cases of teenage refugees in Sweden going into coma made me rethink the mind body problem. Then I review Suzan
• some things are hard — Woken by pain in the middle of the night? I write honestly about living with chronic back pain for 20 years, muscle spas
• Mental health needs of people with learning disabilities – are mental health nurses prepared? — Who cares for the emotional health of people with learning disabilities in mainstream services? I look at a systematic r
• Substance misuse and addiction in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities — Surprising fact: a BMJ Open population cohort found substance misuse in adults with intellectual and developmental disab
• Experience of psychotropic medication and decision-making — Did you know many adults with learning disabilities are prescribed psychotropic medication? I reflect on a multi-stakeho
• Aggressive challenging behaviour requires personalised interventions, robust caregiver relationships, and sustained system-level support — Curious why antipsychotics still dominate treatment for aggressive challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual dis