Is perinatal anxiety a bigger problem than postnatal depression?
For many women, the main problem with giving birth is anxiety – and dealing with it quickly is the key to a good recovery. Is enough being done to spot it in time?
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
A moment that changed me – the kindness of a stranger in the pub
At 20, with a new diagnosis of bipolar disorder, I was lacking confidence and direction when the words – and actions – of one man helped me enormously
Loneliness is not a private matter
In our market society, isolation is the price people pay for being on a low income, and having lots of face-to-face contact is a new form of privilege
Men account for 76% of suicides in 2014, says charity
Research by the Campaign Against Living Miserably finds that more than 40% of British men aged 18-45 have considered suicide
If only more men could express emotion like Professor Green
Talking about his dad’s suicide moved the rapper to tears. But too many of us still think it’s not manly to talk about feelings – and the consequences can be deadly
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
Mindfulness at risk of being ‘turned into a free market commodity’
Warnings delivered at lack of regulations within an ‘increasingly professionalised domain’
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
FGM: reporting of cases among children becomes mandatory
Health professionals, teachers and social workers obliged to report child FGM cases from next week but duty on GPs to record cases among adults sparks row