A multimillion-dollar scheme to get beneficiaries with mental health conditions and sole parents back to work appears to have flopped.

How do you find the chemical root of a disease, especially one as complex and multifaceted as borderline personality disorder, or BPD?

A new online campaign is giving victims of domestic violence a way to tell others what's going on at home without having to say anything.

Act leader David Seymour's alleged comments that people with depression should "harden up" have been denounced as "unfortunate" by mental health advocates.

Act leader says he has been wrongly accused of telling a Victoria University student to "harden up" when asked about anxiety and depression.

A Brazilian tattoo artist is helping victims of domestic violence heal by covering up their scars with beautiful works of body art for free.

Knitting can activate areas of the brain that are good for generating a sense of calm.

A chemical found in red wine helps slow dementia, say scientists - but you would have to drink 1,000 bottles a day to get enough of it.

They said that while longer spells of moderate exercise were good, there were "strong benefits" in repeated short bouts of intense activity such as star jumps.

Not getting enough shut eye? Here are some blissfully easy ways to stop stress giving you insomnia.

A truck driver who narrowly missed a police officer during a more than 50km police pursuit was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.

A New Zealander living in Vanuatu has appeared in court today facing charges for murdering a local man in what police describe as a vicious, drunken fight over a girl.

Grace Barcelos Owen talks about losing her husband, finding joy again and her new career as a psychologist.

Wanted: Right-handed, English-speaking male dope smokers aged between 18 and 45 for a university study on brain activity.

Extreme hoarding is a recognised psychological disorder, and, like most disorders, it finds a fainter echo in each of us.

The belief that electrical devices cause health problems is far more common than you might think.

Even multibillionaire video game creators get wealth fatigue, says Jonathan Wells.

As the drug dubbed 'female Viagra' gets the green light, Rowan Pelling worries we're in danger of swallowing more than just myths about women's libido.

Two senior school sports games on Auckland's North Shore have been rescheduled to let friends of a Long Bay College student attend his funeral today.

A photographer has documented her stay at a psychiatric hospital in a series of striking black and white pictures.

We demand action. But equally we should be dispassionate and rational in demanding measures that seek to prevent these things occurring, writes Jarrod Gilbert.

Once depressed, debt becomes a vicious circle, says Judi Clements, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation.

Middle managers are significantly likelier to suffer symptoms of depression and anxiety than their counterparts at the top or bottom of the hierarchy, a study has found.

I've come to the conclusion, which I am aware many may find abhorrent, that my poor mum deserves the dignified death that was granted to my dog, writes Linda Kelsey.

"Without it, we wouldn't have been able to come out with the studies as quickly as we did."

One of the most promising areas of medical research these days is technology designed to try to guess your mental health and predict what you'll do next.

Vegemite has been in the news of late for all the wrong reasons. The question of whether it's even possible to brew alcohol from the black spread has since been raised.