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Anxiety

September 2023

  • A woman looking in her large handbag

    Pass notes
    Lost your phone and feel your life’s falling apart? You’ve got nomophobia

  • A group of pupils in uniform

    Children with mild anxiety better off in school, says Chris Whitty

August 2023

  • An illustration of a man's nervous system

    The key to depression, obesity, alcoholism – and more? Why the vagus nerve is so exciting to scientists

    Stimulating the vagus nerve is being hyped as the simplest way to reduce stress, dampen anxiety – and could even curb obesity. But what exactly is it? And how does tickling your ear help?
  • The RCM recommends that all health workers in contact with pregnant women and new mothers should have annual mental health training.

    Half of anxiety and depression cases in new mothers in UK missed, says report

    Top midwives are calling for 350 additional midwives to help women struggling with mental health

    • Can you change a Brexit state of mind?

    • Ask Philippa
      My father’s anxiety makes family visits unbearable

    • Ask Annalisa Barbieri
      Living alone is making my anxiety spiral, but I’m too ashamed to reach out to friends and family

July 2023

  • Florence Given Grid highres

    Reality bites: how influencer Florence Given found a safer way to live online

  • Juliet Owen-Nuttall, chef, who had memory loss following a trauma

    ‘I’m a chef and I forgot how to bake a cake’: why trauma often leads to brain fog and amnesia

  • Annie Macmanus

    DJ Annie Macmanus: ‘It was a shock to realise I was lonely’

  • Face-to-face sessions with therapists are becoming rarer.

    Concern as a third of NHS mental health treatments shift online

June 2023

  • Man with thoughts bubble

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m plagued by intrusive, violent thoughts. How can I lessen their impact?

  • Steve Pampalian

    ‘Such a gentle soul’: family in shock after Sydney man Steve Pampalian shot dead by police

May 2023

  • pills

    Full Story
    Why we need to talk about antidepressant withdrawal – Full Story podcast

    Reporter Beth Gibson speaks to Laura Murphy-Oates about why some people struggle to get off antidepressants and what’s being done in Australia to help them
  • Martha Gill

    The definition of mental health has been widened so much that it’s now almost meaningless

    Martha Gill
    In our newly aware world, serious conditions such as psychosis and schizophrenia are overlooked
  • Rear view of mature woman sitting on park bench. Summer.

    The Guardian view on loneliness: private pain should be a public priority

    Editorial: The personal anguish of those who long for meaningful ties has social causes – and social and economic costs

April 2023

  • Illustrations for Observer Good Advice supplement.

    The good advice guide
    Fake or fact: how to recognise a conspiracy theory

  • Illustration of a woman in bed

    The hell of somniphobia: ‘On a bad night I get zero to two hours’ sleep’

  • Ben Ramalingam

    Self and wellbeing
    I jumped out of a plane to learn the benefts of stress

  • Ruby Bron

    ‘They are despairing’: climate crisis weighs heavy on mental health of young Australians

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