Mental Health

Midlife for women brings its own challenges when it comes to mental health. Read about the challenges and triumphs we experience.

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Skin hunger: Understanding the need to be touched

Lynn Ruth Miller has a satisfying life. She just needs to be touched.

Written by Lynn Ruth Miller

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Can I stop being resilient now please?

Children, parents, careers and homes — the stuff of midlife comes with one hell of a to-do list and a mandate to just keep going. Must we handle it all?

Written by Tillie Harris

How my husband fell apart

Amanda Easter suffers the side effects of the cost of living crisis

Written by Amanda Easter

Cold water swimming cured my panic attacks

Breathing, immersion in freezing lakes and comraderie helped Sharing Miranda Bailey heal herself

Written by Miranda Bailey

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Coming to Britain let us reinvent what a woman could be

Our lives in the UK are now unrecognisable to those of our mothers says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Written by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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I lost the job I'd had for 23 years. My world fell apart but now I am glad

Losing her job left Noon editor Eleanor Mills at sea. But then she discovered something new

Written by Eleanor Mills

There is life after drink... why sobriety is a blast

Giving up alcohol proved inspirational for the BBC presenter and author Janey Lee Grace

Written by Janey Lee Grace

'I left my life to work at a magic mushroom retreat'

Denise Rue felt she'd lived small...then left her comfortable life to work at a magic mushroom retreat in Jamaica

Written by Denise Rue