Why you should make the most of the extra daylight when the clocks change

Daylight helps to regulate hormones and the immune system. It’s good for sleep and can help with depression. So be glad of the extra daylight when it comes

You can’t just cheer up people who have depression. There’s a key role for antidepressants

The NHS is planning to offer patients art, music and gardening classes rather than antidepressants. Nice idea, but it won’t work, writes psychotherapist Lucy Cavendish

Postpartum psychosis: new mothers speak out over need for support

Mania and depression can set in very quickly after a baby is born but care across the UK is patchy

Oh wow! How getting more awe can improve your life – and even make you a nicer person

Whether it’s the immensity of the Grand Canyon or the beauty of an intricate spider’s web, feeling awestruck is good for you. Here are 10 ways to get awed

‘I feel totally seen’: John Crace on how guided breathing soothed a lifetime of anxiety

After 65 anxious years, trying every conceivable treatment and therapy available, just one session of breathwork was all that was needed to calm a troubled mind

‘When you stop fighting, that’s when you start grieving’: the parents battling to prevent student suicide

In the four years since their daughter killed herself at university, Robert and Margaret Abrahart have been trying to understand why she was left to cope with her problems alone – and to help other vulnerable young people

Crib sheet: experts issue advice for new parents to cope with sleepless nights

Durham University’s Infancy and Sleep Centre launches kit to help manage expectations and reduce negative thinking

There are some nights I just don’t sleep, and that’s OK. Instead I go out for a walk

Perhaps the hardest thing about insomnia is how isolating it is, writes Mark Starmach, but walking Sydney’s empty streets bring a kind of peace

Third of new students in England show signs of depression, survey suggests

‘Experimental’ ONS survey of first-years finds 37% have symptoms of depression and 39% of anxiety

Life after loneliness: ‘University was bleak – then I got practical, changed my life and found unexpected confidence’

One day, after staring at an academic paper for three hours and writing nothing, I went to an employment adviser. He sent me off in a whole new direction