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The truth about sex addiction

It affects women as well as men, and it starts young. Joanna Moorhead on a secret that's ruining more and more lives.

Nose knows when you lie

Zahnee launches tale to help other kids

Louise Thompson: Checking life's temperature

There is an anecdote about boiling a frog that I kind of like. It’s from the 1800s when experiments of this type were much in vogue.

Fighting parents put kids at risk of depression

Smoking rots your brain

Sexual abuse helpline needs help

"You can call us any time," Maxine Brayshaw told a woman who rang Auckland's sexual abuse helpline at the weekend. Then she had to correct herself.

Blog: Are you living your purpose?

I was ill the other week, in bed feeling sorry for myself surrounded by a sea of tissues. It was the day the cleaners come and I just couldn’t drag myself out of bed so they had to clean around me.

Security guard unjustifiably sacked over bipolar disorder

DHB criticised over death of patient

The Bay of Plenty District Health Board has been criticised for serious failings in the care it provided a mental health patient who later committed suicide.

Baby girls exposed to stress have great risk of teen anxiety

Blog: Lessons from the old school

While in Britain last month I stayed with my good friend Sarah and her husband Nick from university days. It was so good to see them, we talked long into the night reminiscing, and howling with laughter about our long-gone student days.

Inside city's secure mental health unit

How you sleep = how you feel

Nigella abused by her mum

Blog: Worrying makes bad stuff happen

Worrying is a pointless activity. Fact! Worrying is focusing on a fear that is not currently present. It's worrying about a thing that may or may not happen later.

When are the happiest years?

Nick Haslam: Nothing to fear but phobophobia