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Anxiety

September 2024

  • A child under a blanket playing with a smartphone

    The Guardian view on children and smartphones: setting some limits is a good idea

    Editorial: Mobile phone use is not the biggest issue facing schools – or society. But device-free time is important
  • A woman drinks a glass of wine as a man looks on

    Leading questions
    My wife’s drinking is way over guidelines but she never loses control. What do you suggest?

    Alcohol consumption can be hard to talk about, but trying to subtly change your wife’s behaviour without explaining why is likely to make her bristle
  • Unhappy child sitting on a floor

    The ‘staggering’ rise in childhood anxiety is not a mental health crisis

    Letters: Pathologising young people is less effective than tackling the social causes of their worries, suggest clinical psychologists Dr Lucy Johnstone and Dr Helen Care. Plus, letters from a concerned grandparent and Linda Karlsen

August 2024

  • A painted illustration of a lonely pink flamingo pool float washed up on the shore of a beach with pink sand, blue mountains, and a pink-and-blue speckled sky

    Summer is slipping away. Why am I panicking?

  • Students moving in a blur between classes

    NHS referrals for anxiety in children more than double pre-Covid levels

  • A teenage boy looks out of a window

    ‘Jaw-dropping’ number of children in England with anxiety shocks even professionals

  • An image showing just the legs of a child playing hopscotch in the playground of a UK primary school

    ‘I remember crying walking into school’: having anxiety as a child

  • ‘The liberating truth is: they’re probably not thinking about you’: Oliver Burkeman on how to quit people-pleasing

  • Weekend
    Actor Gillian Anderson on female desire, singer Chappell Roan’s slow and steady rise, and how to stop people-pleasing – podcast

  • Birth changes women’s bodies for ever – and we need to get real about it

    Emma Beddington

  • Graham Thorpe’s wife reveals former England cricketer killed himself

  • The unsung hero of the Olympic-champion US women’s gymnastics team is a very good boy

July 2024

  • Adult patients can work through a series of online modules with around 20-30 minute telephone or video appointments with their therapist.

    New online therapies could help at least twice number of people recover from anxiety

    Exclusive: Four internet treatments developed by University of Oxford will be rolled out across NHS trusts
  • Frank Cottrell-Boyce.

    ‘Reading’s in danger’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce on books, kids – and the explosive power of Heidi

    He has written hit films like 24 Hour Party People and cooked up the Queen’s Olympic skydive. But now, having been crowned Children’s Laureate, he’s on a mission to show kids that books will change their lives
  • A man sitting on the ground holds out his hand through a gate to a medic in a white jacket

    How a brother’s illness spurred a plan to get mental health on the agenda across Africa

    One of the continent’s leading medics, Jean Kaseya, has made it his mission to help the 116m people in African countries with mental health conditions

June 2024

  • The Experts by Sarah Philips: actors on how to boost your confidence

    The experts
    The experts: actors on 20 ways to look and feel confident – when you’re anything but

    Does the thought of a presentation or meeting new people make you sweat? Actors including Maxine Peake and Johnny Flynn explain how to perform under pressure
  • ‘Yasmine has an athlete’s mindset – very sharp, very powerful’ … Yasmine Naghdi and Britt Tajet-Foxell.

    ‘If you slip, it hurts your soul’: the ballerina who asked a sports psychologist for coaching

    Huge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Naghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tells us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than just her fouettés

    • A guide to ADHD and autism
      I’m autistic – and I couldn’t be happier than when I’m lost in a huge crowd

    • A guide to ADHD and autism
      ‘He is thriving now; a different child’: the battle to educate neurodivergent pupils

    • A guide to ADHD and autism
      ‘Find people who understand you and be kind to yourself’: an expert guide to living well with neurodiversity

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