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Niamh Jimenez

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Freelance journalist covering mental health. Words in: @irishtimes, @irishexaminer, @Independent_ie. Views my own. Email: niamhclarejimenez@gmail.com

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Niamh Jiménez is a science postgraduate and student psychotherapist. She writes about issues of mental health, including racial and ethnic inclusion, the science of mental illness, and the latest mental health technologies.

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Running on empty? Here is how to manage the 'work' of chronic fatigue

Running on empty? Here is how to manage the 'work' of chronic fatigue

As someone living with unremitting fatigue, I routinely account for why I'm not working, why I still have a b…

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'Mental illness is a big white elephant in the room. You can't hide it'

'Mental illness is a big white elephant in the room. You can't hide it'

There is a lack of societal understanding about the debilitating nature of severe mental illness and the type…

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Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds

Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds

An author capable of revealing the centrality of memory in formation of our shared social realities

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New North-South project aims to identify mental health apps that resonate best with Irish youth

New North-South project aims to identify mental health apps that resonate best with Irish youth

Between the soaring cost of living, difficulties accessing housing and third-level education, as well as the …

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Is Irish psychotherapy falling short of racial and ethnic inclusion?

Is Irish psychotherapy falling short of racial and ethnic inclusion?

In the US, research has shown that more than 80 per cent of ethnic minority clients report experiencing at le…

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My Ex Raped Me. Here's Why I Told Myself It Was Just 'Bad Sex.'

My Ex Raped Me. Here's Why I Told Myself It Was Just 'Bad Sex.'

At first, he stood motionless, his eyes staring through me. Then, rather suddenly, he began to hyperventilate…

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As Lewis Capaldi pulls back, he cuts through an unspoken form of ableism

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By Niamh Jimenez Verified
| TheJournal.ie Verified
“THE FACT THAT this probably won’t come as a surprise doesn’t make it any easier to write, but I’m very sorry to let you know I’m going to be taking a break from touring for the foreseeable future.” As soon as Lewis Capaldi’s tweet surfaced on my Twitter feed, it had an eerily familiar ring to it, casting me back four years to events in my own life: a flurry of emails sent to my doctoral supervisor and a swarm of admin staff, the hasty evacuation of my little apartment in Oxford, England, the...
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The consumer-driven concept of self-love has little to do with real self-respect

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By Niamh Jimenez Verified
| TheJournal.ie Verified
MY TEENAGEHOOD WILL forever be haunted by the magic of the L’Oréal hair flick, followed by the model’s tantalising four-word invitation: .” More compelling than my memory of the advertisement was my discovery that, after chemically straightening my hair, lathering it with L’Oréal shampoo and blow drying it to perfection, I was no closer to finding genuine self-love than I was before I started.
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'Having a therapist who understands your race, sexuality and gender is important'

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By Niamh Jimenez Verified
| TheJournal.ie Verified
THE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT by Minister Joe O’Brien of the National Action Plan for Racism 2023-2027 reflects a growing awareness of the need to respond to important demographic changes within Irish society. According to the 2016 Census, 15 per cent of the Irish population is made up of ethnic minorities, a figure which has likely soared with the latest, unprecedented rise in immigration.
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