Mental health
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‘I was literally tearing myself up’: can the performing arts solve its mental health crisis?With performing arts workers twice as likely to attempt suicide than those in other industries, 90 arts organisations have joined forces in Victoria for an industry-first initiative to support them
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UK second only to Japan for young people's poor mental wellbeingStudy ranks UK 19th out of 20 countries, below Israel, Turkey, Russia and China
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Waterstones children's prize shortlists reflect readers' search for hope in anxious timesBook awards highlight titles providing optimistic perspectives on tough social problems that experts say are hitting youngsters’ mental health
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What can be done to tackle the youth mental health treatment gap?Too few children and young people are getting the care they need. A new commission at Birmingham university is trying to help
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Solutions to the housing crisis are needed nowLetters: Tenants need an emergency housing bill which places an immediate freeze on rent increases prior to introducing rent controls
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Treating former child soldiers and refugees is tough yet fascinatingAs a PTSD therapist I bear witness to people’s fortitude and help to mend mental scars, but cuts are devastating services
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Rise in calls to Childline for mental health issues prompts call for actionFigures show 50,819 youngsters contacted the helpline for a serious mental health problem in 2015/16 – up 8% over four years
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Could adding friction to spending improve people's mental health?Banking is easier than ever thanks to contactless and mobile transactions. But making it simple to spend money isn’t all good
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Search me: should you Google your therapist?A therapist must be a blank slate, Freud said. Should analysts keep their lives offline – and is it OK if they look you up?
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For months I convinced myself I was fine, that I was in control of my fragile, bony body. Then, looking at the hair in my hand, something clickedA moment that changed me: a clump of hair falling out in the shower
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What I wish I could tell my boss: 'My anxiety isn't a weakness'The flight attendant: no, I can’t guarantee an attack won’t happen again – these things don’t go away overnight
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Kindness is nice, but here's what people with mental health issues really need from youWe need to change society so that supporting someone with mental health issues is seen not as optional but integrated into all structures and thinking
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Forget-me-nots in Purley: how the town became 'dementia friendly'The Croydon suburb has been named a safe space for people with dementia, an idea born in the cities of Japan. Campaigners now want London to become the world’s first dementia-friendly capital – but what would that mean?
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Mental health funding 'locked down in dysfunctional hospital system' – Ian HickieAustralia’s national mental health commissioner says money is needed most in community services
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Councils may cut social care provision due to underfunding, LGA saysAssociation says some of its 370 councils are struggling to meet legal requirement so badly they could face high court challenge
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GPs get £20m scheme to help them cope with stressCounselling and treatment for mental health issues to be offered, in the hope of boosting UK retention in the profession
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Ginger’s life on the street: a battle with people’s disgust, illness … and the coldRough sleeping in England has doubled since 2010. This is one story
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Donor pledges C$380,000 for suicide prevention in First Nations communityWapekeka First Nation were denied federal funds to hire mental health workers months before declaring state of emergency over suicides of two 12-year-old girls
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Women on the verge of a midlife crisisFor years, middle-age meltdown has been viewed as an exclusively male phenomenon, involving sports cars, affairs and ill-advised fashion choices – but the reality is not that binary
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When everything else fails, including our knees, perhaps that’s when we pick up our clubs and embrace the fairwayDigested week: maybe it's time to join Obama on the golf course
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Crude financial instruments dominate the headlines, but it’s metrics like grain price and inequality ratio that really reflect the world we live in
Want to know how society's doing? Forget GDP – try these alternatives
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Building more prisons is not the answerLetters: We are calling for an immediate moratorium on prison construction and a national debate about how to build a safer society
Five ways Britain wrecks young people’s mental health – and how to stop it