“The Glass Castle” is a memoir by Jeannette Walls which details her childhood growing up in a family with an intelligent, yet unfortunately alcoholic father…
The Catcher in the Rye is a book which portrays the overwhelming desire to retain childhood innocence through the story of main character Holden Caulfield….
The poem ‘I Married My Mother’ from the book A Good Cry by Nikki Giovanni expresses how Giovanni learned to cry in her 70s. Having…
Claudia Hammond, host of Child in Mind Podcast, interviews David Trickey, a Clinical Child Psychologist and Consultant at the Anna Freud National Center for Children…
The song “Never Too Late” by Three Days Grace tells the story of someone who was sexually abused as a child and how the effects of this…
When university student Kinga (name changed) was young, she struggled with symptoms she couldn’t identify. She had shortness of breath and would suddenly get anxious….
The song “Stressed Out” by Twenty One Pilots gained popularity in 2015, and discusses mental health by using subtle and not-so-subtle lyrics. The very title…
This short by The School of Life discusses the dangers that come with a challenging childhood, among them, triggering of anxiety, self-hatred, and shame. While…
On December 19, 2015, former National Hockey League (NHL) player Patrick O’Sullivan revealed shocking details of sports-related childhood abuse. In a blog article on The…
Where do we draw the line between wishing for better fortune and using fantasy as escape? This question is at the heart of a recent…
