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The new 24/7 phone line is aimed at people requiring urgent mental health support

JACKSON, MISS. — When Lauren Jones was pregnant with her first child, doctors overlooked a leak in her amniotic sac because her description of the symptoms didn’t strike them as cause for alarm.

Even before the pandemic, university students were at high risk of developing mental health problems. Transitioning to adulthood is already a period of heightened vulnerability, and for students, this can be combined with added stressors such as living away from home, financial hardship and changing social relationships.

Brits' long-term dependence on anti-depressants has been laid bare as figures show a quarter of people using the drugs have been taking them for more than five years

Across the country schools have failed to see absence rates return to pre Covid figures with the effect of the pandemic on mental health and increased concerns about illness among the reasons given

Good Morning Britain fans were in shock when Dr Hilary Jones revealed his real age today before celebrating a very special birthday joined by Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley

Social media plays an important role in the lives of many tweens and teens. More than one-third (35%) of 13- to 17-year-olds reported using social media sites such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook "almost constantly" in 2022. And while many social media platforms set a minimum age of…

Education Minister Norma Foley is expected to launch the second phase of a new pilot scheme this week that will see counselling services rolled out in primary schools.

Parents whose children took their own lives are calling for a statutory duty of care for students in higher education to save others from the same fate, Tara Cobham writes