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Mental Health

Matt Haig on A Boy Called Christmas and how to look after your mental health this festive season
A Boy Called Christmas - new film from the Matt Haig book
Film

Matt Haig on A Boy Called Christmas and how to look after your mental health this festive season

How to talk about money in any situation
A young couple sit on a sofa with a credit card
Money

How to talk about money in any situation

Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds reveals the music that saved his life
Dan Reynolds and Imagine Dragons
stadium fillers

Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds reveals the music that saved his life

Selling The Big Issue has boosted my income and my wellbeing
Simone Gill

Selling The Big Issue has boosted my income and my wellbeing

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’

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
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