More needs to be done during early childhood, write Peter Gluckman and Harlene Hayne.

An anguished father wants substances such as Kronic synthetic cannabis banned.

A self-help technique aims to help "voice hearers" live with their condition.

Nathan Boulter faces a raft of charges including abducting and causing grievous bodily harm to ex-girlfriend.

New Zealand has a "woefully deficient" number of mental health services aimed specifically at young people and medical staff were poorly trained to identify those young people who might be at risk, according to a new report.

Health training funds are being redirected into mental health.

The call by the Rotorua coroner for changes to the law to enable easier access to compulsory mental health treatment is understandable given the tragedy of suicide.

A coroner has called for urgent law changes after three young people took their own lives shortly after being released from care.

Judy Bailey has spoken of her personal battle with depression as she fronts a new campaign.

Some people are born happy, scientists say. Researchers have identified a "happiness gene" that makes people more likely to feel satisfied with their lives. Their sunny dispostion is an accident of birth, at least in part.

Being a new parent can bring a surge of unexpected feelings, not all of them good. Dionne Christian relives her own battle with post-natal depression - now called perinatal distress - and talks about how to get help.

Michael Douglas has said that Catherine Zeta-Jones’s depression was "outed".

Disney star Demi Lovato was once so desperate to lose weight she starved herself and vomited until she was spitting up nothing but blood.

A judge has told the state housing agency it was "not helpful" to evict a vulnerable tenant who had nowhere to go.

Catherine Zeta Jones checked into the Silver Hill Hospital in Connecticut last week for around five days.