Regret can seriously damage your mental health – here’s how to leave it behind
The emotion can be all-consuming and destructive, as therapists see only too often. But learning from your mistakes has the power to improve the future
So British people aren’t socialising much? That doesn’t mean they’re lonely
A report links a reduction in going out with a decline in wellbeing. But social isolation, loneliness and solitude are different things, says academic Fay Bound Alberti
Students support disclosure of mental illness to parents
Two-thirds say problems should be revealed in extreme circumstances, research finds
Grant Robertson: ‘New Zealand’s prosperity is about much more than GDP growth’
The country’s finance minister on why his pioneering wellbeing budget is prioritising happiness in its spending plans
‘A mother is scared to hold her baby in case he dies in her arms’: my job as a health visitor
When I visit mothers living with postnatal depression and families struggling to buy food, it reminds me how hard parenthood is
‘They broke my mental shackles’: could magic mushrooms be the answer to depression?
New trials have shown the drug psilocybin to be highly effective in treating depression, with Oakland the latest US city to in effect decriminalise it last week. Some researchers say it could become ‘indefensible’ to ignore the evidence – but how would it work as a reliable treatment?
I know what drives young people to self-harm – I did it for years
Self-harm can feel like the only way to get a handle on a world that seems out of control, says journalist and mental health activist, Harriet Williamson
Want to improve your life? Just learn to say no
We are used to saying yes to please others but it can be harmful not to be more assertive. And imagine what you can do with all that free time
The Heartland review – fascinating study of schizophrenia
Nathan Filer redefines our understanding of the illness