The Mindapples blog has been our outlet for our thoughts, inspirations and company announcements since 2008. It’s actually how Mindapples started, just blogging about mental health and wellbeing, and inviting people to share what they do that’s good for their minds.
Now we use it in two ways: for occasional announcements and updates about what we’re doing, and to post articles about psychology and health research that could help people get to know their minds better. Browse the recent posts below, and get in touch if you find something interesting that you think we should be reading.
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Suspicious Minds
Once it affected 1% of the population. Now more than a quarter of us suffer from paranoia, leading expert Daniel Freeman tells Sabine Durrant from the Guardian. Paranoia, like depression and anxiety, can cause great anguish. “It’s a hierarchy of fear. It’s very common to think people are trying to irritate, or upset you. Less […]
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Unravel your mind
The mindapples team would like you to tell us what you do to unwind. What advice would you give to someone who is trying to unravel their thoughts?
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Get Well UK Service
In Northern Ireland people have been re examining the way they think about health. It is a little odd that the findings were not released for more than a year but nevertheless… This scheme treats and heals patients who have been given up on by doctors. In particular, people with ‘chronic low mood’. It addresses […]
Continue reading → Times for your mind
Interesting piece in the Times a while back (thanks to the lovely Katherine at the RSA for sending it my way) about simple daily activities you can do for your mind. Paul Farmer of Mind is quoted but the ideas seem to come from all over the place. I’d be interested to hear what people […]
Continue reading → Time to change
Time to Change TV ad was aired in January and February in England. The advert explains how the affects of stigma and discrimination can impact on a person who is or has experienced mental health problem. Ruby Wax talks about what it is like to live with depression.
Continue reading → Happy Tapper
Happy Tapper have launched an iphone application which is a Gratitude Journal. Gratitude keeps coming up in studies as a major source of long-term wellbeing and happiness. The application just gives you another way to keep track of the good things, people and events in your life on a daily basis. A new study shows […]
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“I need to see a head doctor – so what?”
Lily Allen admits to therapy and making mistakes…few women in the media talk so openly about being sad. She has told the press about her dark days – the times when she has felt insecure, lonely and miserable. Her secret weapon is therapy, although it’s not so secret. “I’m not ashamed of going to hospital […]
Continue reading → Like clockwork
The secret life of your bodyclock by Horizon was on last night. It took me on a journey into the secret world of the human internal body clock Our body clock controls what we do and how well we do it. In relation to When is asleep not asleep? This program explored the idea of […]
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When is asleep not asleep?
New Scientist asks “Are bad sleeping habits driving us mad?” “TAKE anyone with a psychiatric disorder and the chances are they don’t sleep well. The result of their illness, you might think. Now this long-standing assumption is being turned on its head, with the radical suggestion that poor sleep might actually cause some psychiatric illnesses […]
Continue reading → A pill to make you forget?
Is there a now a magic pill to help you forget a painful experience? Dutch researchers are testing the waters with beta blocking heart pills with the belief that these pills alter how we remember and react to difficult memories. During the study, 60 people were given an unpleasant memory by combining photos of spiders […]
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