Ex-employee Frances Haugen is set to testify on Capitol Hill after she leaked reams of internal research to authorities and The Wall Street Journal, which detailed how Facebook knew its sites were potentially harmful to young people’s mental health
Inspired by a school project, 17-year-old Sera Farista has taken a stand against climate change
Many people do not see it as a crime, but rather a tradition they should follow without question. Regular school attendance can keep girls out of harm’s way
How Covid-19 has intensified the physical and emotional burdens placed on children’s shoulders.
As a society, we must help everyone, particularly young people, to develop coping skills
A mental health pandemic: It’s far from ideal, but a dying mother was able to blow kisses to her child thanks to Khanya the robot
The effects of global warming are negatively affecting mental well-being and will only accelerate in the future, according to a new report
Our country is wrapped in layers of trauma caused by violence, crime, chronic hunger, deprivations, broken families, exploitation, lack of opportunities, inequality and the omnipresence of death
Despite the life-threatening anarchy occurring in areas where we work, one is still expected to show up and replace fear and anxiety with warmth and enthusiasm
Players and journalists are necessarily intertwined, but there have to be more considerate and respectful ways to bring the game to spectators
HBO’s Fake Famous is a humorous dive into the Instagram racket, but it misses the painful collateral damage of the influencer economy
The 23-year-old world number two, and four-time major winner, said she will now take a break from tennis, putting her participation at Wimbledon and even her home Olympics at risk
The country has a national mental health emergency but only a handful of psychiatrists to deal with it
Stigma around bipolar and other disorders is just as debilitating
It was people’s warmth towards Kaluke Mawila that set the tone for how she manages the George campus of Nelson Mandela University
A memorial portal has been launched to help to families of those who have mental illnesses
A bunch of flowers on Mother’s Day expresses gratitude but mothers need more – recognise all their work, listen to them, include them in decision-making
A new study has shown that similarities between human brains and those of mice can make them useful for studying mental illness, something previously believed impossible
Many of the risk factors for mental and weight disorders are not simple to change. Knowing about the good effects of foods, which we can control, is very powerful
Children are displaying unusual behaviour as a consequence of the Covid-19 clampdown
There’s not been enough talk about the toll of the pandemic on our mental health
Mental illness carries a stigma, but with the publication of her book, Dr Ngcobo sheds light on living with bipolar disorder in an attempt to end judgment and educate people
Newfound clarity on the important things in life has been hailed as a silver lining of this crisis. Planning a future around ‘purpose, passion and pay’ may be the key to having it all
Loneliness can seem like a hopeless hole that increases anxiety, depression, fears or thoughts of suicide
It may well be that we have warm bodies in schools, but to think their minds are highly productive is a reach
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the raw realities of South Africa’s under-resourced public schools
More than ever, higher education institutions need to look after employees’ mental wellbeing
We are humans, not just numbers, and we need to tell people’s stories and acknowledge our fears
What the government seems to have missed is that we are facing not just a medical crisis, but a psychosocial predicament that may have far-reaching consequences
How we respond will determine how well we, and other people around us, survive the current crisis
With vulnerability being the work’s primary reference, the ceramic jewellery made and designed by Githan Coopoo is more than adornment
Meet the Central African Republic’s only practising clinical psychologist