Eating processed foods with little nutritional value may be making us mad as well as sick, new research shows.

You've likely heard of the "fight or flight" response, but there is one more very important "F" that keeps getting left out, writes Kyle MacDonald.

A new study investigating intriguing links between mental illness and heart disease risk is among $1.5 million in grants announced today.

New Zealanders will light up the darkness on 17 mountaintops next month as a message of hope for families struggling to cope with suicides by loved ones.

Homeless people admitted to South Auckland's Middlemore Hospital die on average 16 to 20 years earlier than other New Zealanders, a new study has found.

Researchers reveal the skills we are best at in certain age brackets, and some of the numbers may surprise you.

Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald discusses the potential damage that can be caused by cannabis and how to identify addictive behaviour.

The Mental Health Foundation believes there is an "urgent need" to investigate why a significant number of young people aren't coping.

Despite his shortcomings, Donald Trump is unshakable in his confidence. And that tells you everything that is wrong with the idea of "self-esteem", writes Kyle MacDonald.

COMMENT: Is Donald Trump experiencing a mental illness? That's the question making the rounds these days.

Two pharmacists have been reprimanded after giving a woman anti-depressants instead of the painkillers she was prescribed.

When your children can readily access x-rated content at home, how can you protect them?

Thanks to a learning technique, 10-year-old autistic Becky can communicate her understanding of multiple subjects aimed at her age level.

Retired teacher Darlene Horton was due to return to the United States today. Instead she is lying dead in a morgue after being stabbed in Russell Square.

Does your mind feel like a runaway train of negative thoughts? Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald explains how to quiet the mind and unplug.

As New Zealand Police's top crisis negotiator, Lance Burdett reveals how he talked 'the mad, the bad and the sad' back from the brink.

How the singer overcame family abuse has much to teach us, says child psychologist Oliver James.

Thousands of young New Zealanders are waiting weeks, or even months, for mental health care -- a situation one MP calls "intolerable".

Using positive affirmations has become a popular practice. But, warns Kyle MacDonald, it can actually make things worse.

If the internet is a public forum, then social media is the megaphone installed at the centre of it.

Aaradhna opens up on her worst encounters with racism, and how attacks aren't just on her but her whole family.

Three intellectually disabled men are suing Govt for upwards of $100,000 each, alleging human rights abuses while in state care.

After his father's death in 2004, Poi E star Maaka Pohatu often felt down, struggled to sleep and overanalysed the smallest of interactions.

Access to pornography has been supercharged by the internet. Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald explains what constitutes a porn addiction.

A petition for an autistic man held in an isolated wing of a mental health unit has garnered more than 2000 signatures in a day.

A Herald investigation has analysed more than 60 Crimes of Torture Act reports written about health and disability detention sites across NZ.

The family of an autistic man held in an isolated wing of a mental health unit have launched a petition calling for the minister of health to intervene in his case.

At least four research applications related to suicide and the Christchurch earthquakes were declined funding over the past five years.

Elderly, mentally ill patients were subjected to the "prolonged and excessive" use...

A woman on leave from a Hamilton psychiatric hospital has been found dead near the Waikato River, shortly before her planned discharge from the mental health facility.