‘This Mental Health Awareness Week, remember there are ways to create your own digital safe space’
I created my first Instagram account in March 2015 when I was 13 years old. Back then, social media was just a space for me…
Beyond The Masks (II): The Struggles of Nigerian Women Living with Mental Health Conditions
One of the hardest parts of living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) for Emily Audu* is becoming emotionally tethered to a ‘favourite person’. Her world…
Beyond the Masks: The Mental Health Struggles of Nigerian Women (I)
Growing up between Ogun State and Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria, Suhayla Yusuf* still remembers the exact moment her Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms started. It was…
Britain’s Got Talent tragedies from knife attack to mental health battles
ITV's hit show Britain's Got Talent has lost another shining star. Chantel Bellew was just 34 years old when she died, with her mother calling…
Kitty Dukakis, wife of Michael Dukakis and mental health advocate, dies
BROOKLINE, Mass. — Kitty Dukakis, the wife of former Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential nominee Michael S. Dukakis who spoke openly about her struggles with depression and…
‘One Piece’: Matt Owens exits Netflix show to focus on mental health
Matt Owens, the co-showrunner of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of “One Piece,” has exited the series. In a social media post shared Friday, Owens announced he…
Finland takes top spot, US gets lowest-ever rank in World Happiness Report | Mental Health News
The US fell to its lowest-ever ranking in the 2025 edition of the World Happiness Report amid rising social isolation and political polarisation, while Finland…
Biden’s prisons chief tapped to fix California prison mental health care
SACRAMENTO — Following through on intentions broadcast a year ago, a federal judge is putting control of California’s troubled inmate mental health programs into the hands of…
EastEnders announces extra episode to highlight Phil Mitchell's tragic mental health story
EastEnders fans said that Phil Mitchell's mental health battle is 'the most powerful, moving' storyline they've seen, and the BBC soap is highlighting his journey…
Mental health conditions are overdiagnosed, Streeting says
Joshua NevettPolitical reporterWatch: Streeting says 'wait for plans' amid PIP cuts rowThere is an "overdiagnosis" of mental health conditions with "too many people being written…
Why are young adults less happy than ever before? | Mental Health News
Happiness, it has long been believed, follows a curve: It’s high when one is young, dips in midlife, and then rises again as one gets…
Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years
Carolyn Atkinson and Ben RobinsonFile on 4 InvestigatesGetty ImagesIt took a clinical psychologist and others nine years to get Kasibba released (stock photo)An autistic woman…
Lawmakers try to tackle the mental and emotional effects of wildfires
Insurance providers in California would be required to reimburse patients who seek mental health care after a natural disaster under proposed legislation to address the…
Russell Brand shuts down addiction and mental health charity after sex abuse allegations
UNDER-fire comic Russell Brand has shut down his addiction and mental health support charity, it emerged yesterday.The Charity Commission said it was told in September…
Lost Homes, Lingering Trauma: The Mental Health Crisis Among Nigeria’s Displaced
The first attack on the Mai Ido, a small settlement in Kachia, Kaduna State, northwestern Nigeria, started around 11 a.m. in April 2022. That morning,…
Saint Thomas overcomes mental health challenges to be USC’s X factor
Saint Thomas stared into the mirror two Januarys ago and didn’t like what he saw. The light behind his eyes had faded. His mind raced…
A rush to normalcy? New Orleans truck attack survivors struggle with trauma | Mental Health News
New Orleans, Louisiana – It was 3am on New Year’s Day, and Tyler Burt, a pedicab driver working in New Orleans’s historic French Quarter, decided…
Mental Health May Be Part of Reform, Tipper Gore Says
WASHINGTON — The Clinton Administration is likely to place insurance coverage for mental disorders on an equal footing with coverage for physical ailments, a move that…
Mbappe says mental shift helped change his Real Madrid ‘situation’ | Football News
French superstar has silenced his doubters in recent weeks after struggling to settle in with the Spanish giants.Real Madrid striker Kylian Mbappe believes a shift…
For young Californians, climate change is a mental health crisis too
Maddie Cole in eighth grade stopped running cross country. She’d competed the year before, but the air quality in her native Sacramento was so bad…