Browsing: mental

Diagnostic interviews – the most common way to diagnose substance use and mental disorders including depression, anxiety, bipolar and personality disorders – vary in reliability from…

Gaby Hinsliff’s excellent article about the Green MP Carla Denyer (The curse of burnout Britain affects politicians as much as everyone else: give Carla Denyer a…

Joel Snape’s article (What does stress really do to our bodies, 17 May) was informative regarding the physiology of stress, yet narrow in articulating the broader…

Children and young people in England having a mental health crisis are spending up to three days in an A&E unit before they get a bed…

I got Nya, a German shepherd, when she was a puppy. She has such a good temperament – she’s really calm around people.When she was five years old,…

The stresses and strains of caring for someone for 50 hours or more a week leads to “accelerated cognitive decline” in middle-aged and older people, research…

Suicide-related callouts to fire and rescue services in England have tripled in the last decade, with Samaritans now calling for mandatory training for firefighters, who they…

When I first started teaching at Oxford in 2005, I would offer “office hours” a couple of times a week. They were literally that – time…

I regularly meet with a group of students from across the state, representing all five campuses in the University of Tennessee system. I like to use…

On a cold night in east London, 21-year-old performance poet Sam Browne is telling a packed room of strangers about his second bout of psychosis. “I…