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Lee Suckling: The OCD generation

Our generation has accepted obsessive-compulsive tendencies as part of modern life. Lee Suckling explains.

Peter Calder: Music opens doors to life skills

Last night was the 10th birthday of the Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre in Grey Lynn at Galatos Bar in Auckland.

10 diets you don't want to try

In the last 100 years there have been many diets that various people and companies have advocated – some are bizarre, some are gross and some are deadly. Here are 10 diets that you don't want to try.

Liquor putting tots in hospital

Nine children - all aged under 10 - have been admitted to hospitals over the past few years for alcohol overdoses.

Smarter people are more trusting - research

Clever people are more trusting than their less intelligent counterparts, researchers have claimed.

Coming to terms with suicide of a loved one

When someone takes his or her own life, their family and close friends can be left shocked at what depths of despair drove their loved one to act in this way.

Revealed: How long ladies look in the mirror

Women spend 335 hours, or about two weeks each year, doing their hair and makeup, a new survey has revealed.

Calls go out for 'Charlotte's Law'

Tens of thousands of people have signed up to "Charlotte's Law", a petition calling on the Australian Government to introduce tougher cyber-bullying laws.

Symptoms can often overlap

The border between sadness and depression isn't clearcut and mental health experts debate the distinctions.

Three biggest heroin myths

Philip Seymour Hoffman's recent death from a suspected heroin overdose unleashed the usual media coverage of deaths related to this drug.

Coroner blasts DHB in findings on teen's death

A district health board already scrutinised for mental health service failings has been criticised by a coroner in his findings on the death of a 17-year-old.

Clinic on high alert

Patients on legal highs have lashed out in violent incidents at an acute mental health facility that allows smoking.

Military admits: We don't understand trauma

Military chiefs have admitted they do not have a "well-developed" understanding of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder.

Man finds stranger who saved his life

A man searching for the stranger who stopped him ending his life has found the Good Samaritan.

Swimming: Ian Thorpe enters rehab

Olympian Ian Thorpe has checked himself into rehab in Sydney while battling depression and alcohol abuse.

Genetics behind schizophrenia just got more complex

An international team of researchers has found that the cause of schizophrenia is even more complex than already believed.

New headband warns of fall dangers for people with Parkinson's

Scientists have invented a device that warns people with Parkinson's disease when they are in danger of a bone-breaking fall.

Men forget far more than women - study

No matter how old they are, men are much more forgetful than women - research reveals.