ITM Newsletter — 21st August 2020
Hi there!
It’s been another busy week for us over at InSPIre the Mind, but don’t worry if you’re not all caught up. Here is a quick summary of the last couple of weeks, including new blogs, a brand-new series and an exciting opportunity to donate to charity with our new photography competition!
PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION TIME!
THIS AUGUST, HELP US RAISE MONEY BY SENDING US YOUR BEST AND MOST INSPIRING SHOTS
If you’ve seen our Instagram page, you’ll know we are accepting submissions of ‘inspirational images’ to share each Friday. For the month of August, we will be matching each submission with a £1 donation to mental health charity Mind, so what better time to send us your images!
Whether the view from your garden or a scenic holiday snap, send us your best and most inspiring images to donate to a worthy cause. Our favourites will be featured on our Instagram and our website!
To submit an entry simply message us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, or drop us an email on inspirethemind@kcl.ac.uk!
RECENT BLOGS
A BRAND-NEW SERIES ON THE FUTURE OF MENTAL HEALTH…
Every Friday we will be posting a new blog as part of our series ‘The future of mental health written by the future leaders in mental health’, written by the 2020 Psych Stars! We have decided to invite each of the Psych Stars to write a blog on how they envision the future of psychiatry by choosing an area in which they are passionate.
More information on the Psych Stars scheme can be read here.
Today, we published the second in the ongoing series, by medical student Tamara Searle 👩⚕️
✽ The Mind-Body Experience and the Future for Psychiatry
By TamaraSearle
As a final year medical student, I have been exposed to a wide range of medical and surgical specialities. I have noticed, in almost every placement I have attended, that patients with long-standing acute and chronic conditions often face a barrage of mental health issues on top of their physical ill-health.
This often seemed to be unrecognised by both the patient and the treating physician.
✽ Beautiful, healthy minds? Mathematics and mental health beyond the stereotypes
“A beautiful mind” is the title of the critically acclaimed, unauthorised biography of the mathematician John Nash, who famously made great contributions to mathematics, in particular in game theory, while battling paranoid schizophrenia for decades and spending long periods of time in psychiatric hospitals.
John Nash is a classic example often used in popular culture to illustrate the hypothesised link between mathematics and madness, or at least between mathematics and mental disorders. Being a researcher in Mathematics and Informatics myself, I am interested in the potential associations between the practice of mathematics and mental health.
MORE FROM INSPIRE THE MIND
✽ The New Generation Game: A Need for Compassion when Encouraging Young People to Engage in Mental Health
It has been well established that there is inevitably a clash between generations when it comes to how one should behave, think or even live in society. This has become continuously more fragmented between ‘baby boomers’ and ‘generation X’ versus the incoming ‘millennials’ and ‘gen z’. The former often accuse the latter of being ‘snowflakes’ whilst in reverse there have been emotionally fuelled claims of destroying hopes and dreams.
✽ WHY WE NEED THE OFFICE FOR MINORITY HEALTH
RACE, RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION IN MINORITY HEALTH -WHERE NEXT
According to the census in 2011, of the total 56.1 million population of England and Wales, 86% are white and of the remaining Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) population 7.5% are of Asian heritage and 3.3% are black, 2.2 % mixed ethnicity and 1% are other minorities.
