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A creative collaboration with compulsion

| Liz AtkinSteven Pocock

Discover how artist Liz Atkin has channelled the compulsion to pick her skin into an imaginative outlet for her feelings.

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  • Comic

My backstory

| Mads Horwath

A more vulnerable exposé on my dermatillomania.

  • Comic
  • Comic

Mom's solution

| Mads Horwath

Mother may well know best in this case.

  • Comic
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Walk it off

| Mads Horwath

When skin picking really is a disorder and interferes with life.

  • Comic
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Voyage

| Mads Horwath

The root of picking really is just skin deep.

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Rod with a prod

| Mads Horwath

You’ve got a friend in Rod.

  • Comic
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The upsides of dermatillomania

| Mads Horwath

Everything needs a silver lining.

  • Comic
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Save the world

| Mads Horwath

It’s harder than you’d think.

  • Short film
  • Short film

Imagining a more inclusive world

| Carrie RavenscroftBenjamin GilbertLalita Kaplish

An official diagnosis for ADHD has given artist Carrie Ravenscroft so much more than the medical support she lacked. For the first time, it’s allowed her to see a future for herself as valid member of a diverse community.

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  • Short film

The power of art

| Carrie RavenscroftBenjamin GilbertLalita Kaplish

For Carrie Ravenscroft, both the techniques and content of her art are expressions of the workings of her neurodivergent mind.

  • Short film
  • Short film

Gender gap

| Carrie RavenscroftBenjamin GilbertLalita Kaplish

In this artwork, Carrie Ravenscroft considers how her personal struggles with having ADHD relate to the wider challenges of being neurodivergent and female.

  • Short film
  • Short film

Loss and grieving

| Carrie RavenscroftBenjamin GilbertLalita Kaplish

In this artwork Carrie Ravenscroft delves into the complex feelings of grief and loss that were triggered by the death of her aunt during the Covid pandemic.

  • Short film
  • Short film

Chaos within boundaries

| Carrie RavenscroftBenjamin GilbertLalita Kaplish

How making a series of paintings helped Carrie Ravenscroft process and map her journey towards a neurodivergent identity.

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No solution

| Mads Horwath

We all need to relieve stress.

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  • Book extract

Autism and the ache of loneliness

| Daniel TammetHifuMiyo

Explore the thoughts of an autistic loneliness researcher in this quietly expressive extract from Daniel Tammet’s book ‘Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum’.

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Guillotine

| Mads Horwath

Sometimes the solution isn’t worth the trouble.

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Can you tell I’m stressed?

| Mads Horwath

When your friends need to read the signs.

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The wishing-tree of Loch Maree

| Ceri HoulbrookCat O’Neil

So many pilgrims have visited a tiny loch island in Scotland that the site of their devotions, a fragile and crumbling tree, has collapsed under the ministrations of thousands of hands leaving thanks for its rumoured health-bestowing powers.

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I’m not ashamed

| Mads Horwath

Don’t let picking your scars stop you from enjoying nature’s bounty.

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  • Long read

Love, grief and assisted dying

| Michelle ElliotEszter Bonyi

In this deeply affecting story, Michelle Elliot explores the events and emotions around the time of her mother’s medically assisted death in Canada, where the practice is legal.

  • Photo story
  • Photo story

Alopecia in men

| Orlando Gili

Men break their silence about total hair loss in these intimate portraits and interviews by Orlando Gili.

  • Book extract
  • Book extract

Your gut’s instincts

| Elsa RichardsonSteven Pocock

Cultural historian Elsa Richardson explores the stomach’s influence over our emotions, and why trusting your gut is often good advice.

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Unmasking neurodivergent parenthood

| Erin BeestonSteve Cross

Observing her eldest child’s neurodivergent traits and supporting his education set Erin Beeston wondering about her own ‘odd’ behaviour in childhood, and whether adult diagnosis could be empowering.

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Abandoning daydreams of a life without diabetes

| Daisy Watson ShawTony Pickering

After years of longing for a cure for her type 1 diabetes, Daisy Watson Shaw, partly due to medical advances in managing the condition, has reached a state of acceptance. Her wishes now are for greater understanding.

  • Long read
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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard

| Florence WildbloodKathleen Arundell

Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.