Simon Cowell says giving up mobile phone has made him happier

Not using phone is ‘a strange experience but really is good for you’, music producer says

Bristol University faces growing anger after student suicides

Backdrop to exam season is mounting concern about student mental health

Black students are right to want to see black therapists

Cambridge University’s minority ethnic students can now request to see a BME counsellor. This should happen elsewhere, says students’ welfare and rights officer Micha Frazer-Carroll

Seven ways to manage anxiety

While we all get anxious, for around 5% of the UK population, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) can become chronic. But there are numerous approaches to managing the symptoms

Disruption of daily rhythms linked to mental health problems

People with disrupted 24-hour cycles of rest and activity more likely to have mood disorders, research suggests

Mental health self-help guides tend to be dull, so I created a vibrant zine

I’ve used my experiences over the last 20 years to develop Swirl, an accessible guide to managing anxiety

Introduce mental health checks for new mothers, ministers told

Six-week checkup would help the 50% of UK mothers with mental health problems

‘I have sleepless nights’: the looming mental health crisis facing generation rent

One in three millennials will never own their own home, and renters can be evicted with just two months’ notice. What effect is this instability having on young people’s wellbeing?

I am 13 and hate what I see in the mirror

Being what you may think of as thin or pretty doesn’t change how you feel inside, says Annalisa Barbieri

You can smell a new mother’s loneliness. Unless you’re the state

As a new mum, I know loneliness cuts deep – and the lack of services for parent and child plays a large part in this, says the freelance writer Nell Frizzell

I never wanted to be a nurse but helping a suicidal patient changed my mind

I failed twice to get a nursing degree, but I’ve seen how my experience of mental health problems can help others

‘It’s normal to puke after a monster session in the gym’: a man’s battle with bulimia

Eating disorders in men are often hidden. One man reveals how bulimia has shaped his life

How to be alone: ‘I feel most alive when I’m with my own thoughts’

Does the idea of being alone fill you with dread, or seem a luxury? Erica Buist speaks to five people whose lifestyles leave them in splendid isolation

Loneliness can’t be ‘cured’. We must learn to find value in solitude

Instead of medicalising loneliness and calling it an epidemic, we need to find better ways of engaging with ourselves, writes sociologist and author Frank Furedi

‘Drama saved my life’: how performing can help mental health problems

May Contain Nuts is an award-winning theatre company of people with experience of mental ill health