Piece of Mind: Mental Health & Psychiatry
Episodes
Episode 19: Reducing the risk of suicide for people with bipolar disorder
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Content warning: in this episode we’ll be discussing suicide. If this could be at all upsetting, please stop here and maybe give another episode a t...
Episode 18: How mental illness impacts our memory and concentration
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we’re chatting about how researchers at the NCMH have been investigating how memory, concentration, and problem-solving skills, als...
Episode 17: What it's really like to experience psychosis
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Psychosis can be a difficult thing to explain. It is a term used when people experience a ‘loss of touch’ with reality. Around 3% of people will h...
Episode 16: Supporting young people with psychosis in Wales
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Psychosis is when you perceive or interpret reality in a very different way from people around you, it may also be called a 'psychotic experience' or ...
Minisode: Have your voice heard in mental healthcare decisions
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that you have the option to guide mental health professionals in your treatment and care in case you become unwell? Advance Choice Docume...
Episode 15: Not just a party drug: MDMA therapy for people with PTSD
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast discusses the carefully controlled clinical use of MDMA in a therapeutic research setting with specially trained professionals. MDMA...
Episode 14: Recognising complex PTSD
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we're joined by Professor Jon Bisson and Michael Davitt to discuss lived experience of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) a...
Episode 13: Learning disability, autism, and support into work
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Piece of Mind podcast, we're joined by Andrea Meek, Dr Elisa Vigna, and Gerraint Jones-Griffiths to discuss the Engage to Chang...
Episode 12: How dementia research hopes to change lives
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thinking about getting involved in mental health research? We caught up with Sue, an Alzheimer's Research UK Champion who has recently participated in...
Episode 11: PMDD - the hidden link between hormones and mental health
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Piece of Mind podcast, we're joined by Becci Smart and Chloe Apsey to discuss the reality of living with Premenstrual Dysphoric...
Minisode: What's it like taking part in mental health research?
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thinking about getting involved in mental health research? We caught up with Dave, one of our NCMH Research Champions, after he'd taken part in our UK...
Episode 10: Getting young people involved in mental health research
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Piece of Mind podcast, we're joined by co-director of the Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health, Professor Frances Ri...
Episode 9: ADHD in girls and women
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we're joined by Dr Joanna Martin and Ellie, a non-binary young person, to discuss how research at Cardiff University is aiming to lear...
Minisode: Mental health and dementia research
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're back and thrilled to be sitting down with Holly and Dave from the UKMinds project. UKMinds is a new study hosted by the National Centre for Ment...
Ep8: Finding and losing schizophrenia
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Schizophrenia is a contentious diagnosis and source of often heated debate across the various professions and stakeholders associated with mental heal...
Episode 7: Autism
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how people perceive the world and interact with others. There are around 700,000 autis...
Minisode: Clozapine, neutropenia and treatment-resistant schizophrenia
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re delighted to be joined by Dr Sophie Legge and Dr Antonio Pardiñas for our latest minisode to discuss their latest research study.Sophie, Anto...
Ep6: 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
22q11.2 deletion syndrome, or 22q for short, is a genetic syndrome affecting between 1 in 2000 and 1 in 4000 people.There are a wide range of health i...
Ep 5: Sleep, Insomnia And Mental Health
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Getting enough sleep is important for your health and happiness. Generally, if you sleep better you feel better. On the other hand, poor sleep can mak...
Ep 4: Self-harm
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The UK has the highest self-harm rate of any country in Europe, and it remains an issue people struggle to handle, talk about, and understand.In this ...
Minisode: Women In Science
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's International Women's Day, and to mark the event we are celebrating women in science. In this minisode, our guest host Catrin Hopkins, is joined ...
Ep 3: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
ADHD remains one of the most stigmatised mental health problems. In this episode, we're speaking to Zoe Piper, founder of ADHD Connections, about her ...
Ep 2: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Bozo is joined by RAF veteran Darren and Dr Neil Kitchiner, Director and Clinical Consultant Lead of Veterans NHS Wales to talk PTSD....
Ep 1: Postnatal depression
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our host Bozo Lugonja is joined by the founder of My Discombobulated Brain, Laura Dernie, and NCMH Director Professor Ian Jones to talk about postnata...