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Sarah Graham
Periodista sanitario independiente
MA, Periódico, Periodismo
Sarah Graham es una galardonada periodista independiente especializada en salud y fundadora del blog feminista sobre salud femenina Hysterical Women.
Sarah specialises in mental health, women's sexual and reproductive health, gender and feminism. She writes regularly for Grazia, Refinery29, Patient and Broadly, and has also been published by Stylist, Women's Health, Cosmopolitan, BBC Three, Planet Mindful, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, and The i.
She has an MA with Distinction in Newspaper Journalism from City University, and has been freelancing since 2014.
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The ongoing coronavirus lockdown is inevitably having an impact on everyone's mental health. But while there's plenty of advice and resources out there for managing mild and moderate symptoms of depression, stress and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic, it might be harder to know where to turn in a mental health crisis.

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Fibromyalgia is a chronic widespread pain disorder, estimated to affect roughly one in 25 people. But, despite being relatively common, fibromyalgia remains a seriously misunderstood condition, surrounded by stigma, confusion and long delays in diagnosis. So what is it really like to live with fibromyalgia, and why do we still understand so little about it?
