‘It has changed my whole life’: How ‘listeners’ in Wheatfield Prison support fellow inmates
Prisoner support volunteers respond to about 170 calls each year, with family and loneliness common issues
Mental health
Mental health experts on burnout, therapy and the ‘medicalisation of mild anxiety’ in Ireland
The Professionals is a series of articles in which people from one field share their views of Ireland today
Total of 500 people died by suicide in the State in 2022, updated figures show
Average annual number of suicides between 2018 and 2022 was 526
Neuropsychologist Ian Robertson: Troy Parrott’s words show a remarkable quality of Irish culture
Parrott’s lack of ego, his grit and the way he says ‘we’ rather than ‘I’ were forged in adversity and disappointment
Our psychology services are overwhelmed. It doesn’t have to be like this
Primary care psychology is a reservoir of human suffering and missed opportunities
‘I’m struggling to manage my nine-year-old son’s angry outbursts’
Ask the Expert: Explore with your son the stresses and agitations he experiences and see which ones you can address
At Least It Looks Good from Space by Carl Kinsella: Between comedy and calamity
Kinsella proves a sharp satirist and shrewd observer of the minutiae of Irish life in this collection of essays
Psychiatrists differ over insanity verdict in case of Kerry man who killed mother
Billy Burns (55) accepts killing but denies murdering his mother Miriam Burns (75) in August 2022
Man pleads guilty to manslaughter of grandmother (82) in Cork
Bryan Nnadi Ogbo (38) had a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, court hears
‘There were so many little failings’: The patients improving Ireland’s health system
Health service users’ experiences of issues such as systems and medical teams not talking to each other, never mind patients, motivates them to drive change
Learning to speak new language can slow biological ageing, TCD researchers find
People from countries where multilingualism was common were 2.17 times less likely to experience accelerated ageing
I started strength training in my 60s - here are the seven things I learned in one year
On the wrong side of 60, I reckoned that, in addition to walking the dog twice a day, more all-round, intense activity was needed
Mother of ‘out of control’ boy suing Tusla over failure to provide secure care place
High Court again hears no beds available in any of the State’s three special care units for vulnerable children and adolescents
Psychosis patients more likely victims of violence than perpetrators, says research co-ordinator
Conor Gavin is the first co-ordinator of a pioneering psychosis research centre at the St John of God Research Foundation in Dublin
Does a Pacino-De Niro bromance ad contain the seeds of a cure for male loneliness?
With their depictions of fun buddy bonding – harking back to a time before technology swallowed communication – Madison Avenue is modelling the sort of friendships that are waning in society
Resilience isn’t inspirational. It’s crawling out of a hell you never thought you’d be in
I’ve heard self-help gurus say you need to expose yourself to situations of rejection to build resilience, and I’m just not buying into that
Convicted killer sentenced for attempting to drown woman in bathroom of flat
Man was previously jailed for seven years for the manslaughter of a man and woman
Caroline Flack’s mother on the death of her daughter: ‘I always say no one can do anything worse to me now’
Christine Flack has been haunted by the possibility that her daughter received ‘special treatment’ and was prosecuted only because police feared the scrutiny that came with a celebrity like Caroline
‘I found a therapist, but I’m worried my parents will look up what they specialise in’
Tell Me About It: ‘I’m worried I’ll be put into a situation where I have to tell them something I don’t want to share with them yet’
‘Just eat’ is the worst advice for someone with an eating disorder
The one time I ‘just ate’ during my recovery, I sent my body into shock
David Gillick: ‘I was angry and bitter but I also had fear - if I’m not running, what the hell do I do?’
The national men’s 400m record holder on the ‘cutthroat’ world of athletics, life after the track and his medal-worthy interviews with a new generation of Irish stars
Women starting strength training midlife: ‘I had always associated exercise with losing weight and being skinny’
Women in their 40s, 50s and 60s are realising importance of keeping their bodies fit and strong as they age
Carl Kinsella on living with OCD: ‘It’s like having a puppet regime installed in your head’
The columnist and author on relating more to Generation X than his own age group, taking extended breaks from everyday life, and his existential dread of tech billionaires
Ian O’Riordan: David Gillick’s cry for help is what resonates most in The Race
The Race continues at suitably swift pace through the highs and lows of Gillick’s career
‘In the loneliest country in Europe, I’ve started chatting to strangers’
There are ways to create feelings of happiness and belonging
Midwinter by Michael Harding: A beguiling meditation on life and death
Bleak yet comforting book captures perfectly that damp, decaying feeling of Irish countryside winter
One young woman’s story of loneliness in Dublin
Trinity student Alex Griu says there is much more socialising in open-air settings in her native Moldova
Two men charged with Tipperary assault to receive medical attention for mental health difficulties
Assault charges follow alleged incident that left injured party in critical but stable condition
‘Ireland is lagging behind’: How third-level students estranged from their families must fight for grants
Many face a maze of paperwork and rules to access Susi support, leaving some at risk of dropping out
What was done to Victoria Beckham in the 90s was unspeakable. But are we any better now?
In her new Netflix documentary, Beckham speaks about suffering from an eating disorder at the time she was weighed on live TV
Michael Harding: From November on I surrender... We are both entangled in this winter
I take my winters lightly, on the inside. I look out at the world and feel that the falling leaves are beautiful. How well they die
No, you don’t need a cortisol detox. Why are we so addicted to the new language of therapy?
People buy into a chemical understanding of human psychology when really what they’re describing is our deeply complex, irreducibly mysterious inner life
An insider’s intriguing red flag about the culture and ethics of trauma storytelling
Trauma Industrial Complex: How Oversharing Became a Product in the Digital World by Darren McGarvey
‘My children would be alive if I knew about my wife’s illness’
Bereaved call for changes to mental health patient confidentiality following killings
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