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
'We're in the territory, here,' Oliver Burkeman says, 'of the ineffable: the stuff we can't express because it's beyond the power of language to do so'
James Kingsland: Apparently healthy older men who have poor social support networks and abnormal physiological responses to stress show signs of accelerated cell ageing
Emotional and physical release is crucial for people working under stress, but controlled and long-term training is much better than drinking and partying, says psychologist to aid workers Carla Uriarte
'At first, the realisation that inboxes are everywhere will make you feel like the only normal human in a zombie movie, surrounded by the living dead,' Oliver Burkeman says. 'Really, though, it's good news'