Postnatal depression: what the baby books don’t tell you
As Mental Health Awareness Week draws to a close, Tania Browne appeals for wider recognition of the risk factors for postnatal depression or the 'baby blues'
Why we will come to see mindfulness as mandatory
Madeleine Bunting: This increasingly popular tool for calming the mind, once seen as a New Age fad, could play a role in hospitals and schools
How big-hearted babies turn into selfish monsters
Tracy McVeigh: Our natural instinct for altruism is being destroyed by the demands of modern life, claims a new book
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
How we all could benefit from synaesthesia
Developing the mysterious condition in people who do not have it may help to improve learning skills, aid recovery from brain injury and guard against mental decline in old age, writes Helen Massy-Beresford
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
This column will change your life: the case against hope
'Scratch the surface of our hope-fixated culture and you discover The Shawshank Redemption lied to us,' says Oliver Burkeman, 'sometimes, giving up hope sets you free'
This column will change your life: interestingness v truth
'Even in the world of academia,' Oliver Burkeman says, 'most people aren't motivated by the truth. What they want, above all, is not to be bored'
This column will change your life: want to get ahead? Move to Perth
'When we're imagining people and things as physically farther away,' Oliver Burkeman says, 'we see the salient features instead of distracting details, the forest instead of the trees'
Mental health stigma: where’s my cheesecake?
Tania Browne: Mental illness can be just as common and debilitating as physical ones, but people react to them very differently, eg one is more likely to get cake