What shapes our mental health? It is easy to imagine psychological distress as something that exists entirely within an individual, a chemical imbalance, a diagnosis,…
American singer-songwriter SZA’s song Saturn explores the desire to escape emotional pain and find a place where life feels lighter. Rather than depicting healing as…
Three years ago, I came across Nikita Gill’s People Aren’t Homes, and the poem’s closing lines have stuck with me ever since. Of all the…
Gen V, a hilarious and much-awaited spin-off of Eric Kripke’s The Boys, takes us to Godolkin University, an institution where a new generation of superheroes…
The impact of natural disasters is felt globally, even in terms of mental health. A recent study found 78% of young adults’ mental health was…
“Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction” written by Judith Grisel (2019), a behavioural neuroscientist and psychology professor at Bucknell University, was my first…
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ymn4zb7nazsddhv4/Sophie_Podcast_1.mp3 In today’s episode, The Trauma and Mental Health Report’s contributing writer, Sophie Wagner, speaks with Dr. Lucy Vorobej, a historian and post-doctoral fellow at…
I am sure by now we have all seen the much-talked-about Project Hail Mary (2026), a film adaptation of Andy Weir’s 2021 novel. Like so…




