‘My heart jumps when a patient misses a session’: the Brazilian students helping prevent suicide
More than 1,500 people at high risk of suicide have been supported by an innovative mental health programme
Say oui to ennui: how to face, and even embrace, your boredom
Tedium’s payouts are so much more than the €50,000 awarded to French employee Frédéric Desnard for ‘boreout’
Life after lockdown: astronauts and adventurers on the ‘shock’ of getting back to normal
After circumnavigating the world solo at 16, spending 20 weeks in space, and summiting Everest (twice), Jessica Watson, Andy Thomas and Peter Hillary have learned a lot about life after isolation
I like the sound of my own voice – but does that make me a narcissist?
Millennials are said to be more narcissistic than any other cohort of society. A self-confessed self-obsessive works out whether that’s a problem
‘I prefer being physically distant. What happens if I don’t want to return to normal life?’
Some of us are discovering benefits to life during Covid-19, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but that suggests you need to change what ‘normal life’ means for you
Lockdown is straining so many relationships. A lot of people need help
Romantic and family ties are facing new kinds of challenges. Maybe there’s something the state can do, says Observer chief leader writer Sonia Sodha
Sara Maitland: ‘Savour solitude – it is not the same as loneliness’
The author of How to Be Alone argues that concerns about the effects of lockdown may be misplaced
The Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith; The Natural Health Service by Isabel Hardman – review
A fascinating pair of books on the therapeutic potential of the natural world
Scars: how our wounds make us who we are – video
Scars are not just skin deep – emotional and psychological histories lie beneath the healed wounds
Barefoot in the park: the joy of walking over rocks and roots
On moving to the Canadian Rockies, the writer barely left home for fear of bears, but overcame it by feeling the Earth beneath her feet