Mental health

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What is bipolar? History, symptoms, treatments of 'mood swing' disorder

Today is World Bipolar Day, when charities and patients seek to raise awareness of a mental health condition estimated to affect around 2-3% of the population.  In most cases, disease onset begins in adolescence or early adulthood, but can occur later.  There is no single known cause, but genetics, childhood trauma, and some environmental factors appear to increase the risk.

FIRST PERSON Bipolar: 'Firing on all cylinders? In truth I was leaving a trail of chaos'

Agenda: We need an urgent action plan for child mental health support

Yousaf reveals he suffered 'state of breakdown' while junior minister

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Letters: The row over David Hume is a proxy battle in a culture war

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Agenda: It's time to talk more openly about mental health

Mental health services 'at breaking point' as psychosis helpline calls double

Agenda: We must end the postcode lottery in mental health care

Scottish Government confirm £30m cut to mental health funding

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One in three Scots going into debt to pay for food and essential living costs

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Exclusive 'This situation is getting worse:' Mental health patients 'trapped in hospitals'

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Exclusive 'Mental health emergency' behind rise of violence in Scottish schools

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Agenda: The vicious cycle of poverty and poor mental health

Visiting Scottish lochs and rivers improves mental health, study finds

'I didn't know I was ill': Addressing mental health in remote areas of Scotland

Scottish university students suffer in epidemic of loneliness

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Exclusive Ian McCall on brutality, broken dreams and second chances in football

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Action demanded as deprived Scots three times more likely to die from suicide

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Everything you need to know about Glasgow's new wellness and holistic health festival

Mental health care waiting times branded 'intolerable' as one patient waits 9 years

Government 'asleep at the wheel' as sickness leaves 2.5million out of work

Concerns over 'glaring gaps' in mental health provision across Scotland

Report: Confidence among young people 'at lowest level in 28 years'

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INSIDE STORY Be afraid, be very afraid: Is fear the antidote to our youth mental health crisis?

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More than 8000 nursery and childcare staff absent due to mental health

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Half of Scots parents are concerned about their children's mental health

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Opinion Kerry Hudson: We must expand access to mental health care – we can't afford not to

Agenda: Our libraries are key to flourishing mental health

Updated Children and young people 'abandoned' as rejected mental health referrals soars

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Exclusive Spike in suicides among construction workers leads to call for greater support

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Lib Dems on attack as one in four senior psychiatric roles not permanently filled

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Everything you need to know about SAD lamps and where to buy one

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Tesco announce permanent change to UK stores

SNP told to provide more mental health funding to improve 'second-class service'

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