When can you stop worrying about getting postnatal depression?

Luisa Dillner: New research suggests that, although mothers are at risk of postnatal depression in the year after giving birth, depression is most likely to strike when their child is four years old

A third of first-time mothers suffer depressive symptoms, research finds

Australian study also suggests more women are depressed when their child turns four than at any time before that

Living with anxiety is hard, but there are coping mechanisms

Kit Marsters: You told us: Asking for help, keeping busy, and remembering that I'm not going to die are things I do to fend off anxiety attacks

Lucid dreaming can be induced by electric scalp stimulation, study finds

Scientists discover that use of electric currents can influence sleepers' brains, potentially allowing them to control their dreams

Are e-cigarettes good for your mental health?

Jack Dutton: Patients with mental health problems are far more likely than others to become dependent on cigarettes. Can 'vaping' reduce symptoms without the risks?

Black Rainbow review – poetry in a moving account of depression

A journalist and mother charts her descent into illness and the slow rebuilding of her shattered self, writes Stephanie Merritt

I suffer from stage fright and it’s getting worse as I get older

I am worried that this anxiety will eventually force me to stop doing something I enjoy. Do you have any advice?

Psychiatric drugs are doing us more harm than good

Peter Gøtzsche: As with benzodiazepines in the 1980s, the UK is prescribing SSRI antidepressants at a staggering rate – and to no good effect

Stephen Fry doesn’t know what it’s like to have OCD eyes

David Adam: Fry has done so much for public perceptions of mental illness, but those of us with OCD know how misjudged his cake tweet was

Should I stop being a perfectionist?

Striving to be the best you can is often positive, but studies show that this personality trait can cause stress and depression if taken too far