hmm…erm… an “about” section is hard to do for an anonymous blog. The only things I can really tell you are: I have spent the best part of the last decade in the mental health system with severe mental illness, I hold a PhD in experimental physics and I am using the pseudonym Alex Mendelsohn
However, I realise many of you out there might want to put a face to the words I have written. Fortunately, I have drawn an ultra-realistic self-portrait using my C+ grade in high school art. Risky I know. But I think I just about got away with it.

Articles
- A physicist’s experience of the mental-health system
Physics World, Feb 2022 - Learning courage: on the unexpected benefits of examining my anxiety
Voices of Academia, March 2023 - Lithium Story: eight guidelines, eight recommendations
Lancet Psychiatry, May 2023 - Psychiatry needs more simulations: the case of serum lithium concentrations
Psychiatry at the Margins, July 2023