Mental Health

The chancellor decided that too many Germans were skiving, so he tried to change the rules. But it didn’t work

People with mental health issues can go to therapy, can seek help and learn to manage their conditions. But it’s important to remember that sometimes there is no happy ending

Going out every night, dancing around the flat listening to Bad Bunny, the cinema – none of it does any good. Perhaps the secret to dealing with seasonal misery is just to lean into it

The UK’s first safer drug consumption facility finally opened its doors in January 2025. In a year, it has saved scores of lives and helped the UK’s most stigmatised community feel connected again. So why is it still plagued by controversy?

Changes to the mental health act by the Labour government overlooked the most important problems of all

Being constantly reachable fuels our self-importance. But there is a better way

Fake praise, fake therapy and fake boyfriends are warping a generation’s mental health

I always considered myself outdoorsy until I met the Austrians

I love reading books with all my heart, but my Nintendo Switch has saved my life and sanity on more than one occasion

Making sense of suicide is complex, which is why the classicist Edith Hall turns to ancient Greece to do so

The prime minister's 'sicknote culture' wrongly blames the mentally ill for the country's economic problems

British under-30s are some of the unhappiest in Europe – where have they got that from?

A clear plan from Labour on how to repair the damage the Tories have done to our mental health services will reap enormous political dividends

Ours was a chance encounter but it was absolutely life-changing, and I will never forget his kindness

In the third and final part of his exclusive series for The New European, author Oliver Burkeman explains that there is no easy fix for anxiety, but there are plenty of ways to manage it

In the second of an exclusive three-part series for The New European, author Oliver Burkeman explains how we can bring about major transformation in our lives not through willpower and grand gestures, but incremental measures

It's been the most unsettling 18 months in most of our lives. In this exclusive three-part New European series, Oliver Burkeman asks us to take stock and consider what good can we take with us as we emerge from a period of largely unmitigated tragedy, sadness and crisis. Is it even possible that lockdown has a lasting positive legacy for us?

Troubled tennis player Naomi Osaka sparked outrage on the circuit by pulling out of French Open press conferences and then the tournament itself – but she will be vindicated In August 202, at the height of the protests against the public police murder of George Floyd, Naomi Osaka said: “Before I am an athlete, I […]

Prince William’s angry condemnation of the BBC following the revelations about the way Martin Bashir secured his interview with Princess Diana has underlined just how much the future monarch has been shaped by his mother’s death There was a cold, dignified anger in Prince William’s response to the investigation into the BBC’s handling of Martin […]

From his royal faux pas to his fury over the Queen’s Speech, our editor-at-large Alastair Campbell on his week as a guest host on Good Morning Britain The first thing ITV sent me, shortly after I agreed to guest present Good Morning Britain last week, was the Ofcom list of words you’re not allowed to […]

Son of pop royalty, Roman Kemp has turned tragedy and his own struggles into a window on mental health. There have been plenty of tough times in my life and career, but few quite as stressful – in truth, terrifying – as the fear that your own son is intent on drinking himself to an […]

DAN WHITE gives a personal account of how Brexit is already impacting the disabled. It came as no surprise to anyone in the disabled community that the government had not conducted an impact assessment on the effect of leaving the EU on disabled people, despite concerns around the supply of medical supplies expressed by the Royal […]

Piers Morgan is one of those Marmite characters people tend either to love or to hate. My relationship with him is more complicated, and can and does veer between the two. One of the things that is often said of him, and of me, is that we have strong opinions, never change them, and always […]