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# Mental Health

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Poll: Has your mental health been affected since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic?
Anxiety and psychological distress: 50% increase in demand for youth mental health services last month
Calls for use of 149-year-old 'lunatic' legislation in cases involving Wards of Court to end
Opinion: 'I tried to take my own life more than once and felt the compassion of staff begin to fade'
Living with an eating disorder: The last few months have brought unwelcome challenges
No clear start date for new guidance counsellors a 'travesty' for students
Mental health impact of pandemic will be with us 'for a long time', experts warn
Poll: Has the pandemic affected your mental health?
The mental health system is preparing for a 'tsunami' of cases from young people - staff are worried it can't cope
Open Letter from Ireland's psychologists: 'Direct Provision is causing untold psychological harm'
Working from home causes drop in many Irish employees' mental and physical health, survey finds
My food addiction: How group therapy helped me overcome years of bingeing and purging
ITV boss says broadcaster will not make a show like Jeremy Kyle again
'Surge in demand' for mental health services anticipated due to pandemic, committee warned
Have you hit lockdown fatigue? Two wellness practitioners have some advice for you
'Second-class citizens': Report finds significant issues in 'outdated' and 'dirty' mental health centres
Childline contacts surge to over 70,000 during three months of Covid-19 restrictions
70% of primary school parents concerned about impact of Covid-19 on children's mental health
Over half of Irish people say they drink alcohol more frequently since Covid-19 restrictions brought in
Young women in Ireland report being loneliest in EU, study finds
Covid-19: Concerns over testing in mental health facilities as new cases fall
'We must now prepare for the mental health damage that Covid-19 will do'
Government giving Pieta House an extra €114,608 a month after Covid payments end
Covid-19: UN warns fear, uncertainty and economic turmoil could have global psychological impact
'Dramatic increase' in admissions to Dublin mental health hospital in last month
Some new and expectant mothers finding Covid-19 crisis 'very challenging'
'We have a duty to our healthcare workers to mind them, while they mind us'
Charity says older people ringing its helpline 'becoming increasingly distressed by the impact of cocooning'
Number of people accessing mental health supports dramatically increases
Wine, exercise and online quiz nights: Taoiseach and ministers say how they're minding their mental health
Poll: How are you coping during the Covid-19 crisis?
Coronavirus: Two in three Irish people would accept vaccine for themselves or their children
'I feel as though I am dead but in a living body': The mental health toll of life as a refugee
Opinion: Mental health and coronavirus: What lessons can Ireland learn from previous epidemics?
'I basically ran away from my problems… I told people I had this great big coaching job in Spain'
Isolated athletes especially prone to mental health risks, experts warn
Simon Harris says everything cannot go ‘back to normal’ after Easter Sunday
'We have to live with anxiety': Written and published in 10 days, a new book wants to help people cope with our new reality
Wellness Wednesday: 'Keep it simple' during this Covid-19 isolation, says a psychotherapist
Trans people with gender-aligned passports and birth certificates less likely to feel suicidal, new research finds