Teenage boys were hit hardest by the Covid lockdowns, with their mental health failing to recover despite the return to normality, according to the most comprehensive academic study of its kind. Early research into how lockdown affected children indicated that girls had suffered more significant mental health problems than boys. However, a new study carried… Continue reading How Covid lockdowns hit mental health of teenage boys hardest | Young people
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MPs’ staff suffer rising levels of psychological distress, survey finds | Mental health
MPs’ staff are suffering from growing levels of serious psychological distress amid heightened tensions over the war in the Middle East, a survey has found. Nearly half of the 3,700 workers employed by MPs experienced clinical stress similar to emergency service workers last year, the findings suggest. One in five said they feared for their… Continue reading MPs’ staff suffer rising levels of psychological distress, survey finds | Mental health
Generation Anxiety: smartphones have created a gen Z mental health crisis – but there are ways to fix it | Books
Suppose that when your first child turned nine, a visionary billionaire whom you’d never met chose her to join the first permanent human settlement on Mars. Unbeknown to you, she had signed herself up for the mission because she loves outer space, and, besides, all of her friends have signed up. She begs you to… Continue reading Generation Anxiety: smartphones have created a gen Z mental health crisis – but there are ways to fix it | Books
Police in England must keep answering mental health calls, charity urges | Mental health
Ministers should order police forces in England to keep attending mental health calls until more funding is in place for the NHS to plug the gap or risk further deaths, a charity is urging. Rethink Mental Illness has written to the home and health secretaries asking them to immediately pause the right-care-right-person scheme, which allows… Continue reading Police in England must keep answering mental health calls, charity urges | Mental health
Next to Normal review – fizzing musical about mental illness | Theatre
Given that Next to Normal is about a woman with bipolar disorder, it is presumably intentional that the Donmar’s revival of this 2010 Pulitzer prize-winning musical feels, at times, somewhat overwhelming. The songs and emotions come at you in a barrage, their multiplicity of genres underlining the confused and sometimes heightened reality in which the… Continue reading Next to Normal review – fizzing musical about mental illness | Theatre
Olympic champ Tori Bowie’s mental health struggles were no secret inside tight-knit track community
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Olympic gold medalist Tori Bowie’s autopsy included an easy-to-overlook, one-line notation beneath the heading “Medical History:” Bipolar disorder. In and around track circles, where the champion sprinter’s absence is hitting particularly hard heading into Saturday’s opening in Hungary of the first world championships since her death, Bowie’s mental health struggles were more than an… Continue reading Olympic champ Tori Bowie’s mental health struggles were no secret inside tight-knit track community
Met wins battle with NHS over not attending mental health calls | Police
The Metropolitan police has won its battle to stop attending most of the mental health calls it receives after a tense behind-the-scenes row with the health service, the Guardian has learned. From 31 October it will start implementing a scheme that aims to stop officers being diverted from crime fighting, to do work health staff… Continue reading Met wins battle with NHS over not attending mental health calls | Police
Emergency room doctors beg for help treating children with mental health illnesses
Three influential groups of pediatricians and emergency medicine providers are pleading for more support and resources as the number of children and teenagers with mental health concerns overwhelm emergency departments nationwide. “The scope of this problem is really great,” said Dr. Mohsen Saidinejad, a professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics at the David Geffen School… Continue reading Emergency room doctors beg for help treating children with mental health illnesses
Number of children in mental health crisis at record high in England | Mental health
The number of children in mental health crisis has reached record levels in England, analysis of NHS data by the mental health charity YoungMinds shows. For the first time, urgent referrals of under-18s to mental health crisis teams reached more than 3,500 in May, three times higher than May 2019. And in the year to… Continue reading Number of children in mental health crisis at record high in England | Mental health
Women with poor mental health ‘have 50% higher risk of preterm birth’ | Pregnancy
Women who struggle with their mental health have an almost 50% higher risk of preterm births, according to the biggest study of its kind. The research, published on Tuesday in the Lancet Psychiatry, examined data from more than 2m pregnancies in England and found about one in 10 women who had used mental health services… Continue reading Women with poor mental health ‘have 50% higher risk of preterm birth’ | Pregnancy