‘All it takes is a quick walk’: how a few minutes’ exercise can unleash creativity – even if you hate it

Do you have your best ideas while running to the bus stop, or walking the dog? You’re not alone. Researchers are finding remarkable links between movement and blue-sky thinking

Mental health leave offered to Taiwanese students as youth suicides double

Scheme allows three days off each term as high school stress and depression rates soar

I saw my therapist weekly for two years. Then he let slip he’d been watching me. Had he crossed a line?

He said it lightly, but I was unsettled. The trust had curdled

‘It feels like we’ve been lobotomised’: the possible sexual consequences of SSRIs

Long-term sexual dysfunction is a side-effect for some patients who take these widely prescribed antidepressants, and can leave sufferers devastated

Wendy Mitchell obituary

Writer and dementia campaigner who believed that people should have the right to choose their own death

Struggling in these extraordinary times? The answer may be compassion

Giving yourself a circuit breaker will allow you to come back to the worries in your life with a creative, useful approach

Here’s to hanging out with friends, a splendidly pointless pastime we’re at risk of losing

The social pressure to go out is off, but has it been replaced by scrolling alone in our bedrooms?

People who live alone are more likely to feel depressed, study finds

The difference was seen across gender, age and income groups – but your relationships are probably a more important factor

True romance: how to keep the love alive when sex has gone

Fantasising about other people? Wishing your partner was younger or fitter? It doesn’t have to spell the end of the relationship

“My mind, usually a torrent of work stress, has fallen silent”: how I found peace on a woodland retreat

I arrived feeling soul sick and lost, but the simple acts of putting away my phone and sitting in the woods for a few days turned into something profoundly transformational