How do I … keep the doctor at bay?

The cost of running the health service has ballooned, so here are some ideas – beyond paying your taxes – to keep it fighting fit

People aged 40-59 are least happy and most anxious, report finds

Pressures of looking after children and ageing parents could be taking major toll on this age group, ONS study suggests

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig review – one man’s battle with depression

A timely memoir of mental illness reads as a highly personal and creative response to crisis

Matt Haig: ‘As therapy shows, words can be medicine’

Reasons to Stay Alive, the novelist’s book about his own depression, was much easier to write than to live through, he explains

Robert Spitzer obituary

Psychiatrist who transformed the ‘world bible’ of psychiatric diagnosis

Half of perinatal suicides by women ‘could be prevented by better care’

Study finds those who suffer severe mental health problems during or after pregnancy are let down by poor resources and failures to spot warning signs

Generation meds: the US children who grow up on prescription drugs

Millions of US children are on medication for behavioural problems and depression – but what are the long-term effects? Photographer Baptiste Lignel followed six boys and girls to find out

‘We must get men to talk’: photographers address suicide rates among young men

Rapper Professor Green has bravely shared his battle with grief since his father killed himself. Now, musicians and photographers have joined forces to confront the issue – and encourage vulnerable young men to seek help

Yes, you can crawl out of your first-year depression at university

University may well be a petri dish of potential suffering, but by seeking help from the counselling service and escaping the student bubble, you can get through it

Can Professor Green teach men to talk about suicide?

The British rapper’s BBC3 documentary explores his father’s death and discusses how men need to talk about their feelings to reduce the high rate of suicide