How to silence negative thinking
It is all too easy to fall into unhealthy patterns of thought, but visualising your inner critic can help, says John-Paul Flintoff
Traditional treatment for depression is not always the answer
Pete Cashmore: In the face of a Tory call for cuts to benefits for those who go without treatment, it is important to know how brutal some methods can be and why refusing them can be valid
Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies review – ‘a punchy polemic on mental health’
Richard Layard and David M Clark's polemic about mental illness is a revelation – but they're a little too sure they have all the answers, writes Ian Birrell
Mood swings? It might be more than PMS…
Alice Roberts: The most commonly prescribed combined contraceptive pill has a potential side-effect that more women – and GPs – should know about
Advising women with depression about having children isn’t babying them
Hannah Jane Parkinson: Doctors are being advised to speak to women with depression about
pregnancy risks. This is not intrusive – it's necessary guidance
A third of first-time mothers suffer depressive symptoms, research finds
Australian study also suggests more women are depressed when their child turns four than at any time before that
Black Rainbow review – poetry in a moving account of depression
A journalist and mother charts her descent into illness and the slow rebuilding of her shattered self, writes Stephanie Merritt
Psychiatric drugs are doing us more harm than good
Peter Gøtzsche: As with benzodiazepines in the 1980s, the UK is prescribing SSRI antidepressants at a staggering rate – and to no good effect
Should I stop being a perfectionist?
Striving to be the best you can is often positive, but studies show that this personality trait can cause stress and depression if taken too far
Are we using antidepressants to paper over the cracks of a fractured society?
Frankie Miren: Use of antidepressant drugs has become more common than ever before. Perhaps it’s time that we looked at the wider causes of this trend