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Anxiety

November 2024

  • Closeup of a banana against a pink background

    Does this banana scare you? The harsh reality of life with an unusual phobia

  • A woman receiving therapy looking down as the psychiatrist takes notes.

    Mental health patients harmed by being sent to units far from home, report finds

  • Rear view of young woman

    The modern mind
    Meera’s perception of her in-laws as the enemy was intense. So was her struggle with her own ‘ugly’ emotions

    Gill Straker and Jacqui Winship
  • a silhouette of a person smoking, a blue sky and clouds ahead

    Cannabis can help some people – but not everyone – sleep

  • Why I quit
    I used to think Googling my symptoms kept me healthy. My mother’s death showed me I had to quit

    Elle Warren

  • The sports psychologist making a difference with a dog and a bench at Brentford

October 2024

  • A photomontage of a woman whose head has been replaced by a swirl of black blotches

    The modern mind
    Simone thought she was exhausted and burnt-out. But her high-functioning anxiety was going unnoticed

    Ashwini Padhi
    Some overachievers, perfectionists and seemingly balanced people find themselves silently battling inner turmoil
  • a woman holds her hands to her temples

    Some people with ADHD thrive in periods of stress, new study shows

    Patients responded well in times of ‘high environment demand’ because sense of urgency led to hyperfocus
  • Beau Woodbridge wears a dark brown jacket, white tee and navy pants and sits on an outdoor set of stairs with the blue sky behind him, looking upwards and away

    Dear Evan Hansen: Australian production of Broadway hit puts mental health centre stage

    The team behind the new staging of the Tony award-winning show leaned into emotional authenticity and a design that evokes the overwhelming experience of social media

September 2024

  • A child under a blanket playing with a smartphone

    The Guardian view on children and smartphones: setting some limits is a good idea

    Editorial: Mobile phone use is not the biggest issue facing schools – or society. But device-free time is important
  • A woman drinks a glass of wine as a man looks on

    Leading questions
    My wife’s drinking is way over guidelines but she never loses control. What do you suggest?

    Alcohol consumption can be hard to talk about, but trying to subtly change your wife’s behaviour without explaining why is likely to make her bristle
  • Unhappy child sitting on a floor

    The ‘staggering’ rise in childhood anxiety is not a mental health crisis

    Letters: Pathologising young people is less effective than tackling the social causes of their worries, suggest clinical psychologists Dr Lucy Johnstone and Dr Helen Care. Plus, letters from a concerned grandparent and Linda Karlsen

August 2024

  • A painted illustration of a lonely pink flamingo pool float washed up on the shore of a beach with pink sand, blue mountains, and a pink-and-blue speckled sky

    Summer is slipping away. Why am I panicking?

  • Students moving in a blur between classes

    NHS referrals for anxiety in children more than double pre-Covid levels

  • A teenage boy looks out of a window

    ‘Jaw-dropping’ number of children in England with anxiety shocks even professionals

  • An image showing just the legs of a child playing hopscotch in the playground of a UK primary school

    ‘I remember crying walking into school’: having anxiety as a child

  • ‘The liberating truth is: they’re probably not thinking about you’: Oliver Burkeman on how to quit people-pleasing

  • Weekend
    Actor Gillian Anderson on female desire, singer Chappell Roan’s slow and steady rise, and how to stop people-pleasing – podcast

  • Birth changes women’s bodies for ever – and we need to get real about it

    Emma Beddington

  • Graham Thorpe’s wife reveals former England cricketer killed himself

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