The Reading Room: Patient Experience Guides

A guide to our Mental Health shelf — twenty-one anthologies of first-person testimony, from anxiety and depression to grief, th...

A guide to our Cancer Journeys shelf — twenty anthologies of first-person testimony, organised by diagnosis and treatment.

A guide to our Heart & Cardiovascular shelf — fifteen anthologies of first-person testimony, from heart attack survival to ...

PCOS affects around one in ten women and is widely misunderstood. An honest companion to living with polycystic ovary syndrome ...

Long COVID can be isolating, fluctuating, and invisible to everyone but the person living it. An honest companion to the long h...

When antidepressants and therapy haven't been enough, newer options exist — TMS and accelerated TMS, ketamine and esketamine, a...

The GLP-1 story is shifting from weekly injections to a daily pill. What that change really means — the appeal, the same side e...

Alcohol is the one drug we have to explain not drinking. An honest look at getting sober — why it's so hard, the early days, cr...

Far more people go through IVF than ever talk about it, and it can be lonely. An honest companion to fertility treatment — the ...

Depression is more than sadness, and it lies to the people it affects. An honest look at what it really feels like — the numbne...

Anxiety is common, physical, and widely misunderstood. An honest look at what it really feels like — the body, the thought loop...