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Mental health

  • An illustration of a medicine capsule splitting, with lithium pills spilling out of it

    Bipolar disorder: how lithium as a treatment fell out of favour

  • Lucille Howe, whose husband became a conspiracy theorist, photographed side on to the camera, slightly in shadow, October 2024

    My husband became a conspiracy theorist. Would our marriage survive?

  • Young girl holding US flag and crying

    Mental health tips on how to handle Trump blues and anxiety

  • Karin Blak

    ‘A therapist shouldn’t be giving you hugs’: readers share bad counselling experiences

  • MPs urge government to regulate UK psychotherapists and counsellors

  • Weekend
    ‘My lips and cheeks caved in’ – when filler removal goes wrong, Marina Hyde on Trump-based amnesia, and my husband the conspiracy theorist– podcast

  • A before and after shot of a watermelon (with eyes and mouth painted on it) in a hydraulic press.

    ‘There’s so much you can crush’: why hydraulic press videos are so popular and so satisfying

    Watching a pumpkin, crayons or a Furby get squashed isn’t just fun – it can also serve as an emotional release
  • Photo of arms hugging a child with the heads hidden

    ‘They made him a terrorist’: family of autistic boy cleared of terror charges still searching for answers one year on

    Thomas Carrick’s parents wonder what would happen to another child in the same position after a magistrate found he had been ‘groomed’ by the undercover officer
  • new baby holding the finger of its mother

    More than an hour of exercise a week may help with ‘baby blues’, says study

    Moderate exercise such as brisk walking may almost halve new mothers’ risk of major depression, analysis suggests
  • British police custody cell corridor

    The Guardian view on fixing the Mental Health Act: an overdue return to dignity

    Editorial: There is a long way still to go, but the government is taking action to end injustice in the treatment of severe mental illness
  • Rachel Reeves.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Reeves hints UK will urge Trump not to raise tariffs as economists fear his policies will cut growth – as it happened

    Chancellor says UK’s trading relationship with US is ‘absolutely crucial’ and promises not to be a ‘passive actor’
  • Closeup of anonymous doctor in scrubs with a stethoscope

    NHS doctors say lengthy disciplinary processes have left them feeling suicidal

    Many say they felt ‘guilty until proven innocent’ amid fears misconduct claims used to silence whistleblowers
  • illustration of a woman looking one way and a younger version of her pulling her the other way

    Why am I like this?
    Can my ‘inner child’ help me navigate life as an adult?

    People on TikTok are exploring the idea of ‘reparenting’ their younger self. Could I reconnect with mine?
  • packet of french fries

    The big idea
    The big idea: is convenience making our lives more difficult?

    Everything is easier with modern technology – except fulfilling your true potential
  • a women waiting in a room to see a doctor

    ‘Ghost network’ of US healthcare providers amounts to fraud, lawsuit says

    New lawsuit finds ‘staggering’ cases of people struggling to find mental health care coinciding with mental health crisis
  • Elle Warren

    Why I quit
    I used to think Googling my symptoms kept me healthy. My mother’s death showed me I had to quit

    Elle Warren
    Tragedy, and an OCD diagnosis, reshaped my understanding of what I was doing – and why, says Elle Warren, a writer covering queerness and mental health
  • A man eating soup while reading a book

    How to build a better life
    How can you regain your appetite for life? Slow down a little – and savour everything

  • Michael Caulfield with his dog Paisley

    The sports psychologist making a difference with a dog and a bench at Brentford

  • Art on display at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth

    ‘They remind me there’s a life after cancer’: how paintings in NHS hospitals help patients feel better

  • Nicci Gerrard Comment pieces

    A decade ago, my father suffered alone and in misery. Why do dementia sufferers still face the same fate?

    Nicci Gerrard
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