Mind
The Best Things For Brain Fog On A GLP-1, Ranked
The fog is usually fuel, fluid or sleep. Here is the order to rule them out, and the one supplement with real cognitive evidence behind it.
Sara Whitfield
Mind & Sleep Reporter · WomenWelly
Sara Whitfield
Mind & Sleep Reporter · Leeds
Sara Whitfield reports on mental health, sleep and the overlap between them. She is careful about the line between distress and diagnosis, and spends a lot of her time asking clinicians to define their terms.
Covers: Sleep medicine, anxiety, psychotherapy
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8 published
Mind
The Best Gifts For Someone Who Has Had A Hard Year
A depleted person does not need a project. Five gifts ranked on how little they ask — and a note on the one occasion the top pick is the wrong idea.
Mind
The Best Support For Mood Dips On A GLP-1, Ranked Honestly
Some of it is the deficit, some of it is losing your main coping mechanism, and some of it needs a doctor. What helps, in order, and where supplements genuinely sit.
Mind
Breaking The Sleep-Anxiety Loop, Step By Step
Anxiety wrecks sleep and poor sleep manufactures anxiety. CBT-I is the treatment with the best evidence, and it is not what most people expect.
Mind
The Food Noise Has Gone Quiet. Why Does That Feel So Strange?
For people who spent decades negotiating with their own appetite, silence is not always an unqualified relief.
Mind
Mood Changes On A GLP-1: What's The Medication And What's The Life Change?
Separating a pharmacological effect from the psychological weight of rapid change is genuinely difficult — and worth doing carefully.
Mind
Burnout Or Depression? Therapists Explain The Difference That Matters
They overlap heavily and are treated differently. The distinguishing question is about what happens on holiday.
Mind
Who Are You After The Weight Comes Off?
People expect to feel triumphant. A surprising number feel unmoored, and almost nobody warns them it is coming.
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