Joss Burns

Listen to Eunice Atuejide on the MHAI Talks podcast in the Happiness is Free episode . Many children get stuck with labels such as being “difficult” or "stubborn." Often, this comes from a disconnect between how the child feels and the expectations of their local surroundings or environment.  This internal conflict is sometimes known as “belonging uncertainty,”  and the causes are  difficult to pinpoint as they vary enormously with each individual. It could be triggered by a significant life...

Illnesses and disorders don’t always show on the outside. While not a universal truth, this is a good rule of thumb for almost all mental health related issues.  People – especially men  – often hide when they are suffering from depression. The dedicated employee might be smiling all day in the office, but secretly the workload is too much and they’re struggling . And then you have domestic violence, a topic so often shrouded in silence  that we all know someone affected by it, we just may...

It can be easy to forget that social media is still an exceptionally recent phenomenon. If you want, you could claim that social media goes back to May 24, 1844 with the invention of Morse Code . However, for the majority of us, the before and after period can be marked by one platform – Facebook. For the younger readers out there, Facebook probably already feels like the equivalent of black and white TVs compared to color ones for previous generations.  Facebook changed it all And yet it’s...