Search for “stress”, “depression”, “anxiety”, or “mental health” in the app store on your mobile device and you are confronted with a bew...

New research by the Department of Education has found that the mental well-being of teenage girls in the UK is worsening. The survey, whi...

All we can ever hope to do, Sigmund Freud once wrote, is “to change neurotic misery into common unhappiness”. This pessimistic statement ...

A recent study from the United Kingdom found a simple form of therapy called behavioural activation (BA) is as effective in treating depr...

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About 50 per cent of us will at some point in our lives experience “waking up” and being conscious while still in a dream – possibly, we ...

Anxiety disorders – defined by excessive fear, restlessness, and muscle tension – are debilitating, disabling, and can increase the risk ...

Taking some nutrient supplements together with antidepressants can enhance the medication’s effects, our research has found. Published th...

What’s the best way to raise your child? It’s a question that has provoked the publication of numerous books, and seen authors race to co...

Awareness of our mortality is part of being human. As author and existential philosopher Irvin Yalom said, we are “forever shadowed by th...

Over recent years we’ve seen an increasing number of reality TV shows on the topic of relationships. Much of the viewing audience underst...

The Dutch famine of 1944 was a terrible time for many in the Netherlands – with around 4.5m people affected and reliant on soup kitchens ...

Workplaces need to move beyond promoting mental health awareness and start changing the way work is designed to prevent psychological har...

“Selfie” is not just word of the year, but also the mainstay of postings on social media sites such as Instagram. With the prevalence of ...

Dietary nutrients are critical for brain structure and function, so they have a potentially profound impact on mental health. An increasi...

Most people think of rest as the times when we stop work or movement in order to relax, sleep, or recover strength. But historians and an...

Almost all of us have experienced loneliness at some point. It is the pain we have felt following a breakup, perhaps the loss of a loved ...

So you’re depressed. You know this because a health professional has told you so, or you’ve been depressed before and there is no mistaki...

It was Voltaire who said: “perfect is the enemy of the good” – and he should know. A strident critic of existential perfection, Voltaire ...

The idea that we can achieve happiness by maximising pleasure and minimising pain is both intuitive and popular. The truth is, however, v...