Insomnia: Britons’ health ‘at risk’ as 50% fail to get enough sleep
NHS must take action or face an increase in a raft of illnesses, including diabetes and depression, warns expert
A new view of self-harm
The phenomenon has spread to older people over the past 10 years. Why?
The mothers abandoned to postnatal depression
Rowan Davies: Women often turn to online sources of support because they find that NHS services fall short at a time of great vulnerability
The mental illness industry is medicalising normality
Lisa Appignanesi: A reading group would do more to help individuals find relief than squeezing their unhappiness into a package labelled 'disorder'
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison – review
The clinical psychologist's 1995 memoir of living with manic depression has yet to be surpassed, writes Alexander Linklater
How to heal psychological damage
From Haiti to Gaza, psychiatrist James Gordon counsels survivors of disasters around the world
Happiness linked to a gene that comes in long and short versions
Your overall happiness may depend in part on whether you drew the long or short version of a gene, say researchers
Wombats against depression
Anti-depressants left the Wombats' lead singer, Matthew Murphy, insecure and numb, but his experiences inspired uplifting music
Having children helped my depression
Having experienced depression, Viv Groskop feared that motherhood would make the condition worse. But, for her, family life has had the opposite effect
Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest — review
Emma Forrest's account of mental illness is frank and frequently funny but bears the scars of self-obsession, writes Julie Myerson