Your therapist shouldn’t be on TikTok
On social media, therapists are turning consultation room conversations into memes. It’s a sinister trend.
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What a teachers’ strike doesn’t solve
I didn’t leave my teaching job after two years because of the pay. It was everything else.
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The cost of dying: “pauper’s funerals” have doubled since 2019
Exclusive figures reveal how more people are turning to public health funerals in poor parts of Britain.
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Job centres are the front line for mental health services
We need to prevent people from becoming patients in the first place.
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Are you mentally ill, or very unhappy? Psychiatrists can’t agree
As rates of diagnosis rise, a fierce debate rages in psychiatry. Are we experiencing a parallel pandemic, or having a…
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The great attention deficit: what’s fuelling the rise in adult ADHD?
No longer confined to “problem children”, ADHD diagnoses are booming – yet it’s a condition that remains widely misunderstood.
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Steve Platt’s Notebook: Memories of class war, the broken housing system, and struggles with mental health
Thirty years ago I was thrust into the limelight by John Major’s libel action against me; it was brutal, but…
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I’m a public health doctor – I know austerity is why people are struggling
Jeremy Hunt missed an opportunity to improve the population’s health in his Autumn Statement.
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