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…
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