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CJ Sansom obituary
Lawyer turned novelist who enjoyed huge success with his bestselling Shardlake historical mysteries The novelist CJ Sansom, who has died aged 71, saw the dream of many aspiring writers come tru...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/cj-sansom-obituary
From hiking to birdwatching to early nights – gen Z are c...y hobbies, and they’re much better at them | Emma Beddington
I love the idea that the countryside is full of happy young people in Gore-Tex, finding community in beautiful places Of all the weird gen Z behaviours I have read about, this latest trend may...
People with depression or anxiety could lose sickness benefits, says UK minister
Mel Stride says therapy or respite could be offered instead of Pip payments to those with ‘milder’ mental health issues UK politics – latest updates People with depression or anxiety cou...
Family calls for Essex mental health inquiry to include mother’s death
Exclusive: Andrea Waddington, who went three months without NHS psychiatric appointment, died after inquiry cut-off date A man whose mother killed herself after going three months without an NH...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/29/andrea-waddington-family-essex-mental-health-inquiry
Eating disorders are not a choice, they are a disease – I wish more people knew how treatable they are | Xavier Mulenga
Recovery can be a lengthy process but I see more people get better when they engage with treatment than not Emily* is a 24-year-old single female with anorexia nervosa and depression who was re...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/29/eating-disorder-treatment-recovery
MP’s defection reflects ‘disillusionment’ of Tory voters, says Wes Streeting
Shadow health secretary said Dan Poulter’s defection showed he believed ‘only Labour can be trusted with the NHS’ A former Conservative health minister’s defection to the Labour party r...
Why row over Baby Reindeer sleuths will change real-life drama for ever
Netflix’s No 1 hit show sparks legal and moral debate over identities in true-crime stories Baby Reindeer was meant to be a close-up, complex – even funny – look at mental health problems...
I am resigning from the Tory party and joining Labour: only it wants to restore our NHS | Dan Poulter
As an MP and psychiatrist, I see the burden that a service near breaking point takes on patients, their families and healthcare colleagues • Read more: Tory former health minister Dan Poulter...
The Anxious Generation wants to save teens. But the bestseller’s anti-tech logic is skewed
There’s no doubt about the mental health crisis facing young people. Jonathan Haidt blames our devices – which oversimplifies the problem In the introduction to his new book The Anxious Gen...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/27/anxious-generation-jonathan-haidt
Weekend podcast: ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Ha...Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out
Beware of ‘Tetchy Rishi ’ – the prime minister struggles to control his anger during the Rwanda bill press briefing (1m24s); David Harewood on acting, racism and mental health (9m08s); Phi...
MDMA trials are showing it has promise as a psychiatric medicine | Letters
Readers respond to a letter which said that MDMA is not helpful in mental health care Rachel McNulty (Letters, 19 April ) is right to emphasise the need for proper funding of integrated mental ...
Becoming a mother was impossibly hard during Covid. Has anything changed since?
Rates are improving in the US as healthcare organizations take steps to confront the continuing crisis. Still, new mothers often feel alone: ‘People don’t know what to do’ After five mont...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/26/postpartum-depression-pandemic-motherhood-moms
Nurses in England took an average of one week off sick for stress last year, data shows
Chronic workforce shortages have put nursing staff under unbearable pressure, says union chief Nurses in England took an average of a week off sick last year because of stress, anxiety or depre...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/25/nurses-england-off-sick-stress-last-year-data-shows
Rishi Sunak is punishing the sick to cover up his own failures | Letters
Readers respond to the prime minister’s claim that the UK is suffering from a ‘sicknote culture’ As a retired GP who spent 35 years looking after people with anxiety and depression in pri...
Father of man who died after neglect at Priory calls for investigation into second hospital
The group’s facility near Manchester, where three women died in 2022, ‘should be prosecuted’, says Richard Caseby The father of a 23-year-old man who died after neglect at a Priory hospit...
The forever wound: how could I become a mother when my own mother died so young?
What broke me as a child was my mother’s death from breast cancer. But around that shattering, I became a person – and learned how to parent my son I try to remember her hands. They were yo...
Inquest finds gross failings in care of woman who drank too much water
Staff at private mental health hospital near Weston-super-Mare missed chances to prevent Lily Lucas’s death, jury finds An inquest jury has found there were “gross failings in care amountin...
Burnout is not a disease, but a symptom | Letters
SCHUYLER LAPARLE says the goal should be to build a culture of work in which the practices that lead to unbearable stress are not tolerated. Plus a letter from ALLIE KOCHERT In a recent article...
Horses are medicine – they’re helping give young Aboriginal people the love and support they need | Juli Coffin
Their medicine is not always obvious at first, but through the horses of Yawardani Jan-ga equine assisted learning, thousands of young people have felt seen, wanted and loved I have seen horses...
Pressure and Release: horse therapy for young Indigenous Australians
The Kimberley region of Western Australia is a beautiful place. But it is home to communities in crisis – devastated by a pattern of suicides among young Aboriginal people. A glimmer of hope em...