Psychosis isn’t catching but burnout is a risk for many caring professionals
Staff regularly dealing with traumatic situations are at risk of mental health issues, employers must ensure they are well supported
Stark rise in eating disorders blamed on overexposure to celebrities’ bodies
Dr Colin Michie, a leading paediatrician, speaks out as figures show soaring numbers of young people are being admitted to hospital
Tobias Jones Q&A: ‘When you’ve got lice or nits in your hair, are you allowed to kill them?’
Tobias Jones talks about the communal refuge he runs, the criteria for allowing newcomers in and the effect of his faith
Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History by Francis O’Gorman – review
‘Now it’s over, I can enjoy my holiday.’ It’s sometimes self-indulgent and often irrational. So why do many of us spend our lives fretting?
Teen suicide rates are bleak. School- based clinics help those in crisis
One in 25 teens attempt suicide and one in eight think about doing so. Yet teens are especially ill-served by mental health services
‘Curing Queers’: Mental Nurses and Their Patients, 1935-74 by Tommy Dickinson – review
A powerful study of how aversion therapy was used to ‘treat’ homosexuality exposes a nasty episode in recent British history
Christopher Eccleston: ‘Dementia dismantled my father’s personality’
As the devastating disease took over my father, I struggled to salvage a loving relationship, before finding a new way to enter his world – with crosswords, Shakespeare and humour
Seven common myths about meditation
There’s no scientific consensus that meditation can cure your mind, body or soul - so don’t swallow the idea that there is a Buddha Pill
Top of the list of student demands: not lower fees, but more counselling
Stress and anxiety are becoming an epidemic in universities, and yet services offering support are being cut back
Turning off technology is about mental wellbeing – not becoming a digital hermit
Technological advances have put the world at our fingertips, but is being connected all of the time really good for us?
Münchausen by internet: the sickness bloggers who fake it online
Australian blogger Belle Gibson has been exposed for fabricating her tragic cancer story. But her strange behaviour is more common that you’d think – faking disease in return for online fame is now a recognised medical condition
Welcome to the UK’s latest national park … London
Ambitions to re-brand Greater London as a national park sounds like a gimmick, but organisers say it could benefit businesses and the city’s growing population
What can you do to prevent dementia?
It’s a condition that could strike any one of us, and there is still no cure. But evidence suggests that changing your lifestyle can help to reduce your risk
Hundreds of mental health experts issue rallying call against austerity
400 counsellors, psychotherapists and others sign letter saying ‘society thrown completely off balance’ by ‘emotional toxicity of neoliberal thinking’
The secret of happiness? Stop feeling bad about being unhappy
To believe that we should all be striving for positivity all the time is to profoundly misunderstand the nature of human existence