Mental health problems still a workplace stigma

Survey finds 40% have experienced problems and not told their employer – but if you have concerns you may have protection

‘If I didn’t come to the shed, I’d be alone, watching TV’

Emma Howard: Men’s Sheds, a communal woodworking project that started in Australia, has taken off in the UK and is helping men to combat isolation and loneliness

Nicole Scherzinger addresses eating disorder on new track Big Fat Lie

The track, which is about her battle with bulimia, helped Scherzinger to ‘create something beautiful from ... something that wasn’t once so beautiful’

‘Every town needs a sanctuary where people in crisis can go for respite’

Victor Adebowale: My hope for the next 50 years is that we look at health and wellbeing holistically. We need to give equal support to mental, emotional and physical health

Are you a good mother? Stop asking and just enjoy being a parent

Jessica Valenti: You’re sure to get two things when you become a mother: a cute baby and a brutal inferiority complex

When talking about your problems actually makes them worse

Philippa Perry: As Walter Mischel says, distancing yourself from a traumatic event will help you deal with it better than continually reliving it obsessionally

Lonely potato syndrome: how I invented a mental disorder

Dean Burnett: Understanding and dealing with mental illness is complicated enough, without idiots going around making up new ones

Prenatal alcohol consumption linked to mental health problems

Children whose mothers drink four units of alcohol even once are more likely to suffer from hyperactivity, study shows

Can you really get dementia in your 30s or 40s?

The Alzheimer’s Society hopes increasing evidence of the numbers with early onset dementia – some in their 30s and 40s – will lead to better diagnosis, writes Rachel Williams

It’s good to talk: China opens up to psychotherapy

Nearly 60 years after psychology was banned under Mao, interest in the western 'talking cure' is gaining ground