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Overdiagnosis is not the cause of rising mental illness in young people, a mental health conference heard this week. Matthias Pierce, Senior Research Fellow in the Division of Psychology & Mental Health at the University of Manchester, told the BrainWaves Living Well conference that mental health has been worsening for years, accelerating from 2012 and post Covid, with rises in anxiety and self harm in particular and girls showing more distress than boys. Some politicians and commentators...

Talk2Nish is a charity partner for Brainwaves Living Well conference in July. We spoke to the organisation’s Director of Education, Julian Turner, about how the organisation came into being, what its aims are and what it hopes for from the conference. BrainWaves is a global mental health and wellbeing initiative for young people led by the University of Oxford, in partnership with The Day, a publication which turns the news into lessons for young people, as well as support from Dora...

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