What is having ECT like?
Homeland and other shows portray electroconvulsive therapy as barbaric – but that's simply not true, says one person who feels the treatment changed her life
Shorter cuts: news doesn’t get any smaller
Dodgy deals, free folic acid and cats in pubs
Who helps students with mental health problems?
University counselling services are the first port of call for students in the grip of anxiety or depression – but will they survive funding cuts?
The truth about depression: six people speak out
It is an illness that can affect anyone, and prescriptions for antidepressants are soaring, yet depression is still badly misunderstood. Here, six people talk candidly about how it changed their lives
Older mothers may be more prone to depression than younger women
Preliminary study suggests risk of depression is five times as high among women who have children later in life
Childhood abuse may stunt growth of part of brain involved in emotions
Three key areas of the hippocampus in the brain were smaller in people who reported maltreatment in childhood
Prenatal depression: why some pregnant women feel despair
Postnatal depression is a common condition – but depression during pregnancy is far less widely understood. Jessica McCallin explains how she got help
Ruby Wax: depression, me and you
When Ruby Wax opened up about depression, so did her fans. Now she's uniting them online on a new social network, Black Dog Tribe
Should we put lithium in the water?
A psychiatrist in Ireland has suggested that putting psychiatric medicine in drinking water could cut the suicide rate
Therapy stole my boyfriend
Elizabeth Leighton encouraged her partner to go into analysis. Five years and two babies later he still has five sessions a week. Now she feels sidelined and doesn't know where to turn…