The Latest Breaking News from Mental Health

Recently, my suicidal 15-year-old grandson ingested and smoked a cocktail of several drugs. His loving parents found him nonresponsive, with a heart rate near 200 beats per minute. The emergency responders and doctors saved his life. Sadly, it was not his first attempt.

We have come a long way in understanding the mental health impact of welcoming a new baby into the world. But until recently, most of our attention has tilted toward the parent giving birth, possibly overlooking the other.

Nicola Smerdon's youngest son, Tom took his own life in 2019 after struggling with the mental impact that taking cocaine was having on his life.

Burnout is now such a specific experience that researchers are investigating whether it should be included as a mental health condition in its own right, alongside psychological illnesses like anxiety or depression, with which burnout is frequently confused. And this Australian research is at the cutting edge.

The stigma surrounding complex mental health is such that Elfy Scott completed a psychology degree to learn more – but even that fell short

Since September alone there have been 34,962 new claimants for PIP, a state benefit designed to improve living standards for those suffering from long-term physical disabilities or mental health conditions

The mental wellbeing of adult children moving back in with parents was examined by researchers at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Liverpool mum and ECHO columnist Sarah Sandison looks at the devastating impact it can have while women are expected to just 'get on with it'

Jamie Burns was just 34 when he passed away at HMP Low Moss less than a month after being sentenced to four months behind bars and displaying a catalogue of bizarre behaviour.