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Mental Health

Watch this powerful video made for World Suicide Prevention Day
Poet Hussain Manawer has teamed up with Movember for World Suicide Prevention Day
Health

Watch this powerful video made for World Suicide Prevention Day

The number of UK children unhappy with their lives hits decade high
News

The number of UK children unhappy with their lives hits decade high

Be like Simone Biles: Olympian could help more to prioritise mental health
Health

Be like Simone Biles: Olympian could help more to prioritise mental health

Aisling Bea: This Way Up was 'like trying to light a barbecue in a storm'
TV

Aisling Bea: This Way Up was 'like trying to light a barbecue in a storm'

What can ultra-runners teach us about suffering?
Health

What can ultra-runners teach us about suffering?

Naomi Osaka's openness on mental health should be praised, not punished
Paul Farmer

Naomi Osaka's openness on mental health should be praised, not punished

Why don’t UK women cycle?
Bike week - women cycling
Health

Why don’t UK women cycle?

Why PM's mental health pledges will fall short until families have more cash
One in five adults reported depression symptoms earlier this year, twice the rate recorded before the pandemic. mental health
Health

Why PM's mental health pledges will fall short until families have more cash

‘We spend so little time thinking about children’s mental health’
Children's mental health needs more attention
Amy Smith

‘We spend so little time thinking about children’s mental health’

How to deal with post-lockdown anxiety
Health

How to deal with post-lockdown anxiety

We must break the link between mental health and poverty
Mental health problems are on the rise and linked to universal credit
Katie Pybus

We must break the link between mental health and poverty

Ministers commit £17m to help kids cope after year of ‘trauma and anxiety’
A young girl sits at her school desk staring down at her textbook and looking lonely. Mental health
Health

Ministers commit £17m to help kids cope after year of ‘trauma and anxiety’

James O’Brien: ‘I’ve spent my whole life in fight-or-flight mode’
Outspoken radio show host James O'Brien. Image credit: Ula Soltys
Health

James O’Brien: ‘I’ve spent my whole life in fight-or-flight mode’

Brits ‘suffered more than most’ in pandemic, says World Happiness Report
The UK had one of the most significant happiness decreases during the pandemic
Health

Brits ‘suffered more than most’ in pandemic, says World Happiness Report

Talking offers the best route out of mental crisis
Creativity, exercise, art and social prescribing can bring huge progress, writes Horatio Clare. Image credit: Matheus Ferrero / Unsplash
Horatio Clare

Talking offers the best route out of mental crisis

Student mental health: How young people are coping during the pandemic
How has student mental health been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic? Image credit: Kate Kalavach / Unsplash
Health

Student mental health: How young people are coping during the pandemic

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Dame Kelly Holmes praised for openness on self-harm and mental health
Dame Kelly Holmes spoke candidly in a Letter to My Younger Self
Health

Dame Kelly Holmes praised for openness on self-harm and mental health

Mental health and debt: how it affects us and how to recover
Two women sit talking at a table
Money

Mental health and debt: how it affects us and how to recover

6 steps to improve your social media and mental health
Improve your social media and your mental health
Health

6 steps to improve your social media and mental health

Mental health: Could Covid-19 be helping us feel slightly better?
Mental health hero
Health

Mental health: Could Covid-19 be helping us feel slightly better?

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