‘Focus on the things you can control’: how to cope with radical uncertainty

We aren’t as powerless as the coronavirus pandemic makes us feel. This is how to stay calm, one Post-it at a time

A letter to… my psychiatrist, who exploits me

‘You were thrilled by my first expensive gift and your joy made me happy’: the letter you always wanted to write

‘We are all Edward Hopper paintings now’: is he the artist of the coronavirus age?

With his deserted cityscapes and isolated figures, the US painter captured the loneliness and alienation of modern life. But the pandemic has given his work a terrifying new significance

Regulate your breathing – and four other ways to sleep when you’re anxious

Is worrying about coronavirus keeping you awake? From staying busy to preparing a ‘nest’, here is a guide to help you drift off

The secret of calm: how to de-stress if you have one minute, five minutes – or 14 days

Anxiety is running high, and it can be difficult to find time alone to take a deep breath. Here is a guide to relaxing, however much time you have to spare

The family lockdown guide: how to emotionally prepare for coronavirus quarantine

What can parents and children do to survive self-isolation, and each other?

Sometimes I need sleeping pills. Why can’t I ask for them?

Doctors shouldn’t be consigning their patients to one kind of hell in order to avoid another

Young and forever sick: ‘They didn’t see me as a person who had dreams’

More than a third of young Australians live with one or more chronic illnesses – but growing up in fear of death can have its upsides

‘I thought I was a lost cause’: how therapy is failing people of colour

Black and minority ethnic people are more likely to develop mental health conditions but less likely to access counselling – or find it fit for purpose. Are more BME therapists the answer?

New mothers in England to receive health check six weeks after giving birth

Campaigners welcome move to assess women for physical and mental wellbeing