# Mental health

## 15 March 2025



### Free online virtual reality tool helps people tackle public speaking nerves

Cambridge scientist behind VR platform says it could help those put off by high cost of speech anxiety treatment



## 14 March 2025



### MPs tell No 10: frontbenchers could quit over disability benefits plan





### Mentally unwell woman in solitary confinement for almost a decade ‘an emergency situation’, Victorian judge warns





### Mental ill-health is behind soaring disability benefits bill in England and Wales, report says



## 13 March 2025



### ‘I had no voice’: black mental health patients on surviving a care system they say is racialised

As a report into mental health care in England finds a sharp increase in people sent for urgent care, two people tell their traumatic stories of being hospitalised





### Mentally unwell woman in solitary confinement for almost a decade ‘an emergency situation’, Victorian judge warns





### Mental health charities struggling to cope with GP-referral influx



## 12 March 2025



### How to build a better life

Your inner voice is telling you something. If you listen closely, you may not like it





### I was crying, anxious, exhausted – why did no one warn me about the new-pet blues?



## 10 March 2025



### The one change that worked

The one change that worked: I committed to therapy – and began to chip away at my grief and depression



## 9 March 2025



### ‘It’s a place of healing’: the man on a mission to restore Britain’s ancient rainforest





### ‘The pandemic reinforced existing inequalities – it was a magnifying glass’: how Covid changed Britain



## 8 March 2025



### I adore my children. I’m also scared that one day my son will kill me





### Scorpions by Tuppence Middleton review – living with OCD



## 7 March 2025



### Mind over body: the trouble with treating chronic conditions





### View from the couch: therapists on sessions in new Trump era


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