‘I’d struggle without it’: Little Stoke parkrunners on what it means to them
With Saturday’s parkrun cancelled on safety grounds, participants explain its benefits, from mental health to friendship
Book an appointment: doctors to prescribe novels in new scheme
The Reading Well for Young People campaign lists books to help young people deal with mental-health issues and will be available at surgeries and libraries
Conspiracy craze: why 12 million Americans believe alien lizards rule us
Psychologists are trying to determine why otherwise rational individuals can make the leap from “prudent paranoia” to illogical conspiracy theories
I’m a man and I have an eating disorder. That’s not a contradiction
Wentworth Miller’s brave Facebook post reminded me how difficult it is for men to talk about mental health and their bodies. But it’s an issue for millions of us
Do you need to be troubled to be a genius?
What can we learn from the Warhols, Gershwins and Lincolns?
The ‘drugs v talking’ debate doesn’t help us understand mental health
Mental illness and how we treat it is back in the spotlight – but confusion and false distinctions create problems for both doctors and patients
Post-recession Britons are healthier, better off and living greener lives
National wellbeing snapshot covering period as UK shrugged off financial crisis finds improvements in 17 of its measures
I wanted a new kind of mental health support group – we meet in the pub
Talking about anxiety or depression often involves sitting in a circle in a badly lit room, Let’s Go Mental aims to be different
How to teach … mental health
We teach children how to care for their bodies – use our resources to help them learn to look after their minds too
The ugly truth about body dysmorphia
Some children see only things to hate about the way they look. Their condition can lead to depression, anxiety, self-surgery and even suicide, reports Eva Wiseman
My fertility problems made me feel like a failure
After two years of struggling to conceive and an ectopic pregnancy, I finally became pregnant. Women must not be made to feel that infertility is their fault
‘Self-harming is behind me, but it blights many students’ lives’
Students are turning to private online communities and peer-led societies to help them break the cycle of self-harm
10 ways to beat loneliness
People of all ages are discovering new and old ways to connect – from co-housing schemes to friendship apps and chicken care…
Mental illness is always a problem, so we will always need books about it
The current prominence of mental illness on bookshelves is good for all of us – so it’s important that reading about it is not a passing fad, writes Joanna Cannon
These brave mothers’ stories must chip away at the stigma of postnatal mental illness
One in 10 women suffers from pregnancy-related mental health problems, but fear stops them asking for help. A BBC documentary shows it doesn’t have to be that way