Health | the elephant in the room

Contraceptive apps: brilliant, bonkers or brave?

2018-07-25 by Elephants Voice

Contraception is often assumed to be, whether correctly so or not, a woman’s responsibility. Sitting on a plastic chair at a walk-in clinic with your best friend as you both read leaflets about chlamydia and try not to make direct eye contact with anybody else. Normally the experience is uncomfortable but infrequent and worth it so that you can enjoy an active sex life. However, contraceptives are never that easy. Each contraceptive comes with it’s own semi-dissertation of warnings and […]

Categories: Advice, Debate, Feature, feminism, Health • Tags: birthcontrol, coil, condom, contraceptive, contraceptivepill, controversy, Feature, feminism, fertility, Health, IUD, lifestyle, opinion, rubbers, sex, sexual, sexualhealth

Taking some ‘M.E’ time

2018-06-13 by Elephants Voice

Hello loyal readers/subscribers/followers, Firstly, I’d like to say thank you! Your continued support and interaction with Elephant’s Voice resulted in my university awarding me a First-class for DMP – the module connected to the site. It was awarded not only for my own effort and professionalism on the site but your reactions to it. Thank you, thank you, thank YOU! Without your views, clicks, shares and comments I would not be graduating with the classification that I am in four weeks time. […]

Categories: Health, Personal • Tags: blog, blogger, bloggerswanted, blogging, care, CFS, ChronicFatigue, ChronicFatigueSyndrome, controversy, diary, disabled, followers, Health, hospital, internet, letter, M.E., ME, MECFS, mentalhealth, metime, metoyou, MyalgicEncephalomyelitis, NHS, Personal, private, silence, spoonie, time, timeout, twitter, wordpress

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: M.E. and me

2018-04-05 by Elephants Voice

This will be the first time I’ve published any content directly relating, and somewhat recognising, my disease. I think that it is important for readers to know and for me to admit, because my illness is my most vulnerable area and I’ve never felt the need to put into words how I feel and struggle in case others attack that side of me – a side you’ll learn already attacks itself. “Charlie, your test results tell us that you’ve got M.E.” […]

Categories: Advice, Feature, Health, opinion, Personal • Tags: anxiety, bedbound, benefits, bound, CFS, CFS/ME, ChronicFatigueSyndrome, Death, depression, diagnosis, disability, disabled, disease, Health, housebound, ill, journey, lynngilderdale, M.E., ME, merrycrofts, mobility, MyalgicEncephalomyelitis, mystory, NHS, Personal, poorly, reality, relapse, remission, story, sufferer, suffering, suicide, tiredness, welfarebenefit, wheelchair

Smear-ya-later! Why designer vaginas are to blame for women ignoring Cancer risk

2018-01-25 by Elephants Voice

Women are choosing to risk their health rather than feel uncomfortable for two minutes in the nurses chair. New research released this week from Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust has shown that so many young women are choosing to skip their cervical smear because they’re embarrassed by their own vagina’s. Over 2,000 took part in the survey and the results reflected just how serious an affect the porn industry has had on women’s self esteem: designer vagina’s are now normality – or so women […]

Categories: Debate, Feature, feminism, Health, News • Tags: Advice, boyfriend, feminism, feminist, girlfriend, Health, help, labia, labiaminor, labiaplasty, lifestyle, mentalhealth, Personal, porn, sex, statistics, vagina, women

World Mental Health Day: Are the NHS doing enough?

2017-10-11 by Elephants Voice

In the last quarter century, since World Mental Health Day was first introduced, mental health has progressed forward so much, stepping away from the stigma and closer towards understanding, respect and awareness. But, is it enough? Though the stigma around mental health is still prominent you can’t ignore how far contemporary society has come. With the help of celebrities many have begun to accept that illness can occur within your head and the illnesses are all serious. Celebrities have been […]

Categories: Feature, Health, opinion, Politics • Tags: 1in4, anxiety, depression, emotions, feeling, feelings, fomo, happy, Health, hospital, mentalhealth, NHS, people, sad, society, suicide, therapy, uk, world, worldmentalhealthday

Therapy: Are self-help books the new portable-pocket-professionals?

2017-08-29 by Elephants Voice

What happens when the person you turn to isn’t there anymore? You crumble. That shoulder to lean on has disappeared and you fall flat on your sad little face. Who do you turn to? A paid professional or cheap book? The ever growing market of self-help books can only support you, right? Books can’t pack up their bags and leave, they can’t decline calls or air you. They’re just fucking books after all. Are self-help books the new portable-pocket-professionals? Self-love is the best […]

Categories: Advice, Feature, Health • Tags: awareness, books, brain, cbt, emotional, emotions, Health, mentalhealth, science, selfhelp, therapy

Face mapping: listen to your spots and they will tell you the answers!

2017-08-22 by Elephants Voice

Finding yourself repeatedly breaking out in the same place? This isn’t a coincidence – acne never is! It’s also something you do not need to be putting up with. Look in the mirror, listen to your body and save your skin! If you’re repeatedly getting spots in the same place you’ve probably found a way to cope already: applying concealer to the area, crying maniacally, squeezing the life out of your spot and letting the sadness seep out or just refraining from […]

Categories: Advice, Health, Personal • Tags: acne, body, bodyshop, chinese, facemapping, Health, medicine, roaccutane, skin, skincare, smooth, spots, theory, traditional, westernmedicine

#7 Chats with Charlie

2017-08-13 by Elephants Voice

Three Q’s are answered every week so if yours isn’t loaded this week it will be next – but answers left to wait will be sent via personal message ASAP. Just loaded online the following week. This is to keep the segment short and snappy but also ensure that those wanting help get it ASAP. To enhance this feature and get even more of you sending in questions I’ve also made an anonymous link (via good old Ask.fm) for anyone and everyone […]

Categories: Advice, AGONY AUNT, Feature, opinion • Tags: Advice, agony, agonyaunt, caffiene, cheating, coffee, crying, flatmates, food, Health, heartbreak, help, helpsegement, housemates, lonely, love, lovestruck, mentalhealth, opinion, single, stealing, tea, thief

Frisky females: why masturbation should be a yes, yes, YES!

2017-08-08 by Elephants Voice

Flicking your bean. Having a fiddle. ‘Me time’. Taking your fingers for a walk. Finger painting. The pink canoe… This isn’t just a topic that Cosmopolitan like to cover – this is a real thing that women want to talk about, freely. Women are liberated and sexy and (shock horror) have urges too. It isn’t just men who lock themselves in rooms and have an ear pressed to the door in case someone comes home. Diamonds aren’t girls best friend anymore, […]

Categories: Feature, feminism, Health, opinion • Tags: female, femalefriendly, feminism, gender, generation, happy, Health, liberated, lifestyle, male, masturbation, porn, sex, sextoys, vibrator, wanking, women

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