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Media reports about the Netflix TV series 13 Reasons Why focus on our fear of suicide among teens. But watching it also give parents a good opportunity to talk about a difficult subject
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Last night mental health charity Mind announced the winners of their 2016 Media Awards - see the full list here
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Cold Feet author Mike Bullen used his own experience of mid-life depression to write a storyline about Pete Gifford's crumbling mental health in the new TV series
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US journalist Dan Harris’s on-screen meltdown radically altered his life. Before his nationally broadcast panic attack on ABC news, Harris was your average over-worked, professionally anxious reporter. He’d joined the network at the extremely young age of 21, and was  thrown into the deep end when he was sent to Afghanistan to cover the Taliban. After a long stint dodging bullets in Afghanistan and then Pakistan, he returned home to a studio-bound job  with a severe case of undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. He dealt with this by dosing himself up on...
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With the National Television Awards tonight and controversy over television programmes filling the papers again, it might be a good time to look at how the television we watch affects our well-being. Our brains are incredibly susceptible to what we watch, in part because of two bits of biological programming. One is that we’re designed to not waste energy, so sitting down and having information come to us feels easy. The other biological quirk is that new experiences register as stronger than familiar ones, we’re hard-wired to seek out novelty. Television provides us...
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