Scroll Free September: can you ditch social media for a month?

Did a gym visit even happen if you didn’t post a selfie of it? Scroll Free September is urging online addicts to take a break

Calls for action over UK’s ‘intolerable’ child mental health crisis

Teachers and campaigners say young people under pressure but support is underfunded

Energy drinks: why it is high time their wings should be clipped

The caffeinated, sugary drinks point to health issues such as obesity and type 2 diabetes

Syphilis diagnoses are booming – it’s clear sexual health needs an overhaul

Responsibility for services is shared by NHS and councils and there is little evidence of a united effort on prevention

Hospital admissions for teenage girls who self-harm nearly double

School work and social media blamed for rise to 13,500 patients from 7,300 in 1997

The spying accusations are a new low for the Student Loan Company

If you’re a student who is estranged from your parents, the last thing you need is the SLC making a fragile situation even worse, says Guardian columnist Dawn Foster

Social media and celebrity culture ‘harming young people’

Young people’s mental health damaged by ‘unobtainable’ body image in online world

How to support friends through their mental health struggles

If someone you know is finding the going tough, here’s what you can do to help them

The decline of Club 18-30 isn’t all about sex, sex, sex you know

It’s easy to see why Thomas Cook is considering the raunchy holiday club’s future – the package holiday is dead, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

I am 13 and hate what I see in the mirror

Being what you may think of as thin or pretty doesn’t change how you feel inside, says Annalisa Barbieri