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Mental health

18 January 2026

  • Taylor Gough

    Changed body, changed life
    ‘It felt amazing to be on the start line again’: the rugby pro who became paralysed – and is aiming for the Paralympic Games

    Aged 20, Taylor Gough had a car accident. Five years later, he’s hoping to compete in the 2028 Paralympics. How did he do it?
  • Best Friends Spending Time TogetherTwo senior female friends walking on the beach together during the winter time, they are wearing warm clothing.

    Notes and queries
    How can we learn from unrequited love?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

    • The modern mind
      The perils of perfectionism – and why ‘good enough’ should be your goal

      Gill Straker and Jacqui Winship

    • Why am I a vegan? I do it for my mental health

      Emma Beddington

    • Changed body, changed life
      ‘I looked exceptional but I was out of breath’: the bodybuilder who switched to mindful movement

17 January 2026

  • A woman stands in front of a wall of green foliage and looks to her left

    What happens to accidental heroes when the headlines fade? ‘You get your award and then there’s nothing’

  • Megan Jayne Crabbe wearing a long-sleeved, full-length, bright-orange dress, standing with her hands on her hips, and laughing against a pale-pink background

    Changed body, changed life
    ‘It took time to love my soft, larger shape’: the body-positive writer who recovered from an eating disorder

  • A person with gloved hands holds bags of safe injection supplies.

    ‘It’s whiplash’: reversed cuts ‘incredibly disruptive’ for US mental health and substance abuse programs

  • Blue-tinted head shot of Aleksanteri Kivimäki, accused of hacking a popular Finnish therapy site and leaking thousands of patients' intimate information

    He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known?

16 January 2026

  • A woman and child.

    Woman ‘overwhelmed’ by loneliness killed herself and disabled daughter, coroner says

    Full-time carer Martina Karos and Eleni Edwards, eight, were found dead at home in Salford

15 January 2026

  • a person handing a person a small box of medication

    US health officials reverse course and reinstate $1.9bn to mental health and substance use

    Health department unexpectedly announced nearly $2bn in program cuts Tuesday before rolling back decision

14 January 2026

  • close up of a pair of hands holding a naloxone cut

    ‘People will die’: Trump administration cancels up to $1.9bn for substance use and mental health

    Funding to end immediately for up to 2,800 grantees of US agency that serves thousands seeking help and in recovery
  • David Bowie, with Brian Eno behind him, at a painted table

    A Day with David Bowie: how a visit to a psychiatric clinic changed him – and his music

    In 1994 the singer and Brian Eno spent a day with ‘outsider’ artists. Intimate photographs, showing in Australia for the first time, reveal the effect it had
  • Teenage girl using phone

    Social media time does not increase teenagers’ mental health problems – study

    Research finds no evidence heavier social media use or more gaming increases symptoms of anxiety or depression

13 January 2026

  • A hand with a wristband reaches up into a blue sky to catch a jar of face cream.

    Tired of the wellness industrial complex? Six rules to ditch – and what to do instead

    Dr Ezekiel J Emanuel, a former Obamacare adviser, has deceptively simple advice for living a healthy life
  • VARIOUSDepression mental health problems young man suicide gstock

    LGB+ people in England and Wales ‘much’ more likely to die by suicide than straight people

    ONS analysis also shows LGB+ people more likely to die from drug overdoses and alcohol-related disease
  • Author James Nestor sitting on a bench

    The pulmonaut: how James Nestor turned breathing into a 3m copy bestseller

    It is the most essential thing we do - yet many of us arguably breathe badly. The author of Breath explains how that can be changed

12 January 2026

  • A male therapist's hand writes with a pen on a lined notebook opposite a woman who is blurred

    ‘People are desperate’: ADHD clinicians in England on a system in chaos

  • Zoe Williams

    Social media is corrupting young minds – but a ban is not the answer

    Zoe Williams

11 January 2026

  • Two people embrace, a woman looks at her phone

    Making sense of it
    As the year begins, don’t look away from the headlines, look better and deeper

    Justine Toh
    It’s important to cultivate a fresh way of seeing – one that isn’t blind to harsh realities but refuses to be cowed by them
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