Mental health

I thought that after a month of not drinking, my relationship with alcohol would fix itself. I was wrong

The idea that a month of abstinence can help you regain control and become a ‘better drinker’ is a myth for any alcoholic

‘Children as young as five are saying they would prefer to die’: Irish doctors say Gaza children are ‘retraumatised’

Children caught in the crossfire of the war are suffering an ‘unfathomable’ psychological impact

HHC vapes: ‘It only took a few puffs to turn him completely zombie-like’

Hexahydrocannabinol, a legal cannabis substitute, is causing severe psychosis in some young men

Children in poorer areas far more likely to develop severe mental health difficulties, says professor

Prof Susan Smith says evidence shows need for a national health inequity strategy

Mental health: ‘Although we talk a lot in Ireland, I think we don’t say very much’

If you feel sad all the time or stop deriving joy from the things you love, it’s time to seek help

Work issues a factor in mental health problems for over one third, survey finds

Annual survey was carried out ahead of World Mental Health Day on Thursday

‘My nine-year-old is starting to be self-conscious about her body, which worries me’

Ask the Expert: The best way to check if your daughter’s development is healthy is to measure her height and weight so you can assess her BMI

Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch: ‘I had a tough time, a physical and mental breakdown. The thing I clung on to was the book’

The Belle and Sebastian frontman’s debut novel, Nobody’s Empire, draws on his own experiences, including of ME. Part travelogue and memoir, it’s also a love letter to his favourite music

I scrawl on the cinema bathroom wall: ‘Anyone else find friendship in their 40s hard?’

I miss the solidarity of the women’s bathroom in nightclubs, where strangers became best friends for those brief moments that always seemed to last a lifetime

‘I got 550 points in my Leaving Cert. I’ve always had this feeling that I had a purpose in life’

The second-year law student at University of Galway on discrimination she has faced as a Traveller and how education became her refuge

‘I refuse to accept the horror that has become the status quo’: what did politicians say when students wrote to them about their lives?

Simon Harris, Micheál Martin, Holly Cairns and others reply to letters from students and recent graduates on the key issues they face today

‘You see coke every second night you’re out’: students and drugs on campus

Third-level student says smoking weed is so normalised you might need to make an excuse for not wanting to smoke

Mental health funding ‘piecemeal, inadequate and short-sighted’, charities say

Persistent underfunding is having a long-term impact on the mental health system, says Mental Health Reform interim chief executive Philip Watt

Addiction and healing: ‘All of the things that you chase for happiness don’t actually make you happy’

Síolta, co-founded by Hannah Bowler and Wayne Dignam, is a co-operative of wellbeing practitioners aimed at enabling growth and connection

Do we understand what the Irish education system is doing to our young people?

Use of technology in schools has increased exponentially since the Covid-19 pandemic but why is there so little discussion around it, apart from the continuing debate about smartphones?

All the lonely men: how to survive the ‘friendship recession’

Men are facing a crisis of loneliness. Rethinking the shape and structure of their friendships can help

An Irish man in California: what I did first notice was how people talk about themselves. Compared to the typical older Irish man

The ubiquity of therapy in Berkeley infuses the words people use and their lifestyles with an odd deliberateness

Cannabis-like drug causing severe psychosis in young men, College of Psychiatrists warn

Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) is legal in Ireland and commonly available in the form of vapes or added to jellies or chocolate

Housing charity aiding people with mental health problems calls for funding boost

Record number last year assisted by Hail which is providing an ‘essential’ service for the State, says chief executive

Pieta says it may not be able to continue mental health services without Government funds

Cost of running suicide prevention and counselling group stands at some €17m a year, mostly paid for by ‘generous donors and dedicated supporters’

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