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Life has essentially become a gigantic episode of The X Factor, and is part of the reason there is an anxiety epidemic in young people, says the government’s former mental-health champion

After being caught between difficulties at home and my perfectionism at school, for me university represented the freedom to lose my mind, writes one mental health campaigner. There is an element of ‘release’ at university which is conducive to risk-taking behaviours

I went to secondary school in the 1990s when so-called experts competed with each other to provide the most shocking examples of mental illness. This was utterly misguided

Children need to be heard, loved, valued and to feel safe. If these fundamental needs aren’t met, then working on their resilience is like building a house without foundations, says the government’s former mental-health champion

Recent debates about mental health have revealed widespread confusion. The government’s former mental-health tsar attempts to introduce some clarity into a world full of jargon and misunderstanding

The mental health of students should be a priority for educators, not an opportunity to chastise a generation