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High tech demand creates living hell

Born to be happy: Discovering the 'happiness gene'

Some people are born happy, scientists say. Researchers have identified a "happiness gene" that makes people more likely to feel satisfied with their lives. Their sunny dispostion is an accident of birth, at least in part.

Oh baby, what a mother load

Being a new parent can bring a surge of unexpected feelings, not all of them good. Dionne Christian relives her own battle with post-natal depression - now called perinatal distress - and talks about how to get help.

Man who ate his finger makes plea for help

Pharmac to fund new epilepsy drug

Michael Douglas sticks up for wife who was 'outed'

Michael Douglas has said that Catherine Zeta-Jones’s depression was "outed".

Help staff kick the habit

Optimism seen as cause for depression

<i>Gill South</i>: Adventures in mindfulness

Gill South tries a meditation retreat but finds it hard to keep to the code of silence.

Bipolar blogger takes aim at politically incorrect Latta

TV psychologist Nigel Latta is under fire for his use of the word mental.

Remembering to remember

With so many ways of storing data, are we forgetting how to remember? Not according to US writer Joshua Foer, who reveals new and remarkable strategies for memorising. By Robin McKie.

The blurred reality of humanity

If you can be sure of one thing, then surely it is that you exist. Even if the world were a dream or a hallucination, it would still need you to be dreaming or hallucinating it.

Draft suicide reporting guidelines due next month

Disabled man missing for two days found

Key to mental fitness - work the brain

Scientist says that exercise is the key to mental fitness.

Kerre Woodham: Trauma is a pretty vague term