‘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
Sexual addiction, desire and dopamine hits
Not all sex addicts are sexual predators – many are just struggling to contain their destructive urges. Andrew Anthony meets addicts and therapists to hear how they cope with this secretive pandemic
Orchestra conductor Marin Alsop: ‘I commute between the US and Brazil – the time zones almost line up’
The music director of the Baltimore and São Paulo symphony orchestras on evening work and getting by on short sleeps
Pumarosa’s Isabel Munoz-Newsome: ‘I didn’t get a smear test because I was embarrassed. Stupid’
Just as her band broke through and began a European tour, the singer was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She talks about her dramatic year
Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich review – wise words on real wellness
The author and activist’s sharp critique of what she calls an ‘epidemic of overdiagnosis’ is a joyous celebration of life
Tony Parsons: ‘The first half of my 20s was screaming madness’
The author, 64, talks about how yoga is intimidating for men, why everyone needs a personal trainer and how his 40s brought him more stability
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: ‘It is, strangely, acceptable to mock and demonise teenagers’
The neuroscientist, who has written a book on the teenage brain, on the turmoil of adolescence and whether mindfulness can help
Brainstorm: Detective Stories from the World of Neurology; Unthinkable: The World’s Strangest Brains – review
Books by Suzanne O’Sullivan and Helen Thomson offer fascinating insights into the ‘maverick brain’ and rare mental conditions
Paul Gambaccini: ‘After overcoming a couple of periods of turmoil in my life, I appreciate the things I love’
Live every day to the fullest – and skip dessert, says the radio presenter, 68
Time for change: Anne Enright on Ireland’s abortion referendum
In the coming weeks, voters in Ireland will have the chance to repeal the eighth amendment, which recognises the equal rights to life of a foetus and the mother during pregnancy. We must send a message to the world, the author declares