Life-saving optimism: what the west can learn from Africa
In the US, where I teach, mental health problems are rife. In Nigeria, poverty is common but there’s no hopelessness. Why, asks author and academic Chigozie Obioma
Suffering from Brexit anxiety? You could get free counselling
Psychotherapists will offer sessions to those left in despair by referendum result
Why I lied to my therapists
Melissa Broder, the poet behind the popular Twitter account @SoSadToday, spent 18 years in therapy. But she never told the truth. Here, she explains why she’s now going it alone
‘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
Doctors knew my son was suicidal. I should have been told before he died
I was denied the chance to be there for my son when he needed me the most
One day I was director in a mental health trust. The next I was suicidal
Depression sucked the life and soul out of me but I knew from my clinical experience that I could recover
Seven ways … to beat the ‘winter blues’ without medication
Many of us feel lethargic and ‘down’ in January and February. But from taking more exercise to eating the right food, there’s plenty you can do to put the spring back into your step
If I can come back from wanting to kill myself, so can others
Peer-to-peer support was the key to my recovery. Now I run a charity where I use my experience to help others with mental health problems
How do I stop being lonely? You asked Google – here’s the answer
Every day millions of people ask Google life’s most difficult questions. Kate Leaver, the author of The Friendship Cure, offers some thoughts
Is everything Johann Hari knows about depression wrong?
The Observer has published an excerpt from Johann Hari’s new book challenging what we know about depression. But do his own claims and arguments stack up?