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The Reading Room

Honest, first-person companions to the conditions, treatments, and choices explored across our library.

The loneliness epidemic in data: how widespread loneliness is, and the serious health risks linked to social isolation.

October 28, 2025 Workplace Burnout by the Numbers

Workplace burnout in data: how widely it is felt, who is most affected, and why it is now a recognised occupational phenomenon.

More than mood swings. What bipolar disorder really involves, how varied it is, and what people find helps them find stability ...

More than the baby blues, and nothing to be ashamed of. What postpartum depression really is, why it is not a failure, and what...

A guide to our Mental Health shelf — twenty-one anthologies of first-person testimony, from anxiety and depression to grief, th...