His 2014 book, The Body Keeps the Score, has become a huge pandemic hit, topping bestseller lists this summer and becoming a meme on social media. What does it tell us about the world we live in?When Dr Bessel van der Kolk published The Body Keeps the …
UK psychiatry chief urges funds to tackle mental health backlog
Pandemic has had catastrophic impact and risks wiping out years of progress, college leader warnsThe “catastrophic” impact of the pandemic on mental health could wipe out years of progress unless there is a significant injection of cash, the president …
Depression is not a one-size-fits-all condition – we need a more nuanced approach | Sidney Bloch
Feelings of sadness are ubiquitous but the concept of depression is ill-defined – and the risk is medication being inappropriately prescribedThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workNot a week …
UK workers on the end of furlough: ‘Will it be Amazon, care homes or driving a van?’
The support scheme has proved positive for some, but others will have no jobs to return to. We hear their storiesSince March 2020, 11.6 million UK workers have been furloughed by their employees as a result of the Covid pandemic, with the government pa…
Teenage girls, body image and Instagram’s ‘perfect storm’
The suffering of the photo-sharing app’s users came into focus this week with the leak of Facebook’s internal research‘I felt my body wasn’t good enough’Emily started using Instagram when she was in her mid-teens and found it helpful at first. She used…
Journey Clinical raises $3M to allow psychotherapists to prescribe psychedelics
Psychedelics companies are all the rage right now. Compass Pathways is working with the magic mushroom compound psilocybin to treat depression. It’s has raised $290 million in total. Atai Life Sciences — backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel — brought in $258 million from its IPO. In the tech space, this has not gone unnoticed […]
Facebook knows Instagram harms teens. Now, its plan to open the app to kids looks worse than ever
Facebook is in the hot seat again. The Wall Street Journal published a powerful multi-part series on the company this week, drawing from internal documents on everything from the company’s secretive practice of whitelisting celebrities to its knowledge that Instagram is taking a serious toll on the mental health of teen girls. The flurry of […]
Vulnerable children are victims of Tory policy | Letters
The lack of help for troubled young people fills me with despair. Not much has changed since the 1980s, says Steven WalkerAnother story about the lack of help for troubled children (Sharp rise in acute medical beds occupied by children with nowhere els…
Photographer David Bailey reveals he has vascular dementia
‘It’s just one of those things,’ says the British celebrity snapper, 83, who is still busy with new workDavid Bailey has revealed he has dementia, a life-limiting condition the British photographer described as a bore.Speaking to the Times, Bailey, 83,…
Ending universal credit boost will hit sickest areas the hardest, study shows
New research finds scrapping the £1,000-a-year benefit uplift will ‘trigger mental illness and poorer health’ for thousandsScrapping the £1,000-a-year boost to universal credit next month will trigger mental illness and poorer health for thousands of p…