Is there too much stress on stress?
About 10m working days a year are lost to stress. In our age of austerity, zero-hours working and weakened unions, has it become a shorthand for more complex problems?
Does this hurt? The subjectivity of ill health
Dean Burnett: People assume specific illnesses affect all people in the same way, but the effects they have vary wildly between individuals.
How do I … keep the doctor at bay?
The cost of running the health service has ballooned, so here are some ideas – beyond paying your taxes – to keep it fighting fit
People aged 40-59 are least happy and most anxious, report finds
Pressures of looking after children and ageing parents could be taking major toll on this age group, ONS study suggests
‘You are not the only lonely worker’: our readers on making friends at work
Isolation in the workplace is increasingly being recognised as a problem. Our readers offer their advice on how to beat loneliness
Your friends are having kids, and you’re lonely. Could a friendship app help?
Britain is a nation full of loneliness. We use the internet to buy food, track our periods and get dates, so why not use it to find new mates?
Workplace loneliness is a real problem. For 45 hours a week I feel isolated
I have a good job which I enjoy, but in a bustling office I feel entirely alone. Employers need to tackle this, both for work performance and for people like me
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig review – one man’s battle with depression
A timely memoir of mental illness reads as a highly personal and creative response to crisis
Is mindfulness making us ill?
It’s the relaxation technique of choice, popular with employers and even the NHS. But some have found it can have unexpected effects
Why don’t I appreciate what I have? You asked Google – here’s the answer
Every day millions of internet users ask Google some of life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries
Matt Haig: ‘As therapy shows, words can be medicine’
Reasons to Stay Alive, the novelist’s book about his own depression, was much easier to write than to live through, he explains
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan and Caren Zucker – review
A frustratingly ambiguous history of autism sheds controversial new light on the actions of Hans Asperger
Therapy helped me to love my baby after a traumatic pregnancy
Frightened and anxious, I found NHS help which gave me back my life. Cameron’s pledge for more support for mothers must be made a reality
Why don’t I sleep well? You asked Google – here’s the answer
Every day millions of internet users ask Google some of life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries
Food supplements prey on people’s desire for change
People looking for a new year boost buy into the transformational message of food supplements – it’s easier than believing that we can change ourselves