‘Parkrun saved my life’: how the weekly runs became a phenomenon – and are now coming back

Before lockdown, the 5k running event helped people get fitter, make friends and manage everything from depression to diabetes. Now it’s preparing for a limited return

Katy Perry: ‘I’ve done a lot of falling flat on my face’

Nine months pregnant with an album due at the same time as the baby, the star once known for her unfiltered goofiness has evolved. She talks depression, cancel culture – and her return to pure pop

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s lockdown listening: ‘Doing handstands, that’s the time for music’

The LA ambient composer shares what she’s been listening to while upside down, from Caribou to Zimbabwean polyrhythms

Isabel Hardman: ‘One of my most exciting botanical finds was in a Glasgow car park’

The journalist and author on how nature can boost mental health treatment, even on lockdown

With Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel blew open the memoir as we know it

A daringly unvarnished account of desperate self-absorption, this startling debut redrew the boundaries of confessional writing

Trying to be happy could make you miserable, study finds

Westerners who put high value on happiness tend to show greater signs of depression

Sounding it out: ‘Listening to white noise put my life back on track’

Megan Nolan was searching for a way to switch off the stresses of modern life. Then she discovered white noise. Here, she charts how the flat frequencies helped her cope

Reasons to Stay Alive review – striking staging of Matt Haig depression memoir

This dramatisation of the mental health bestseller takes a step towards removing the stigma from depression – though it’s no substitute for the book

‘Like someone flicked a switch’: the premenstrual disorder that upturns women’s lives

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, only recently recognised, can cripple women emotionally, physically and mentally

Meditation helped me drag myself out of self-loathing and failure

I spent my 30s angry, confused and depressed – until my wife suggested I try listening to my breath