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Clemency Burton-Hill: We need to get emotional about classical music

Classical music can get us through tragedy and trauma, it can bring focus, insights and joy. And yet why do we never talk about how it makes us feel? My new podcast asks music lovers, from Alec Baldwin to Ian McEwan, to tell us just thatI remember the time I fully grasped the power of music. I’d broken up with my first proper boyfriend and I couldn’t eat or sleep; I could barely breathe. I was out of my mind with the dismantling grief of teenage heartbreak and I thought my life was ending. The only...

Mental health | The Guardian

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NHS opens clinic to help child addicts of computer games

GPs will be able to refer young people, after ‘gaming disorder’ defined as a health problemThe NHS is opening the country’s first specialist clinic to treat children and young adults who are addicted to playing computer games such as Fortnite, Candy Crush and Call of Duty.Staff will help those aged 13 to 25 whose lives are being debilitated by spending countless hours playing games. From Tuesday GPs and other health professionals in England can refer addicts to the service, with treatment starting...

Mental health | The Guardian

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Thousands of military veterans 'let down by medical discharge failures'

Many veterans forced to leave without proper diagnosis or medical support, says charityMilitary veterans are being “seriously failed” by the existing medical discharge process, which has led to tens of thousands being forced to leave the armed forces without a proper diagnosis or long-term medical support.The veterans charity Help for Heroes said the experiences of those seriously wounded, with mental health problems or otherwise unable to serve could be vastly improved with the introduction of some...

Mental health | The Guardian

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We are in the midst of a mental health crisis – advice about jogging and self-care is not enough | Suzanne Moore

Physical exercise can help, but we need to understand what it is about the way we live that makes so many of us illIs there a problem in this sad old world that can’t be solved by physical jerks? I find myself muttering this, because wherever I go someone is coming up behind me, breathing heavily: a runner.Some of my best friends are joggers – pushing themselves up hills, finishing marathons – it keeps depression and mood swings at bay and it’s free. It’s a good thing, but I cannot be alone in finding...

Mental health | The Guardian

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