Lindsay Lohan has been ordered to undergo psychological counselling.

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".

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

An amendment to stalking laws is expected to be introduced in the Victorian state Parliament tomorrow.

Gill South tries a meditation retreat but finds it hard to keep to the code of silence.

TV psychologist Nigel Latta is under fire for his use of the word mental.

Scientist says that exercise is the key to mental fitness.

Workers caught up in last month's Christchurch earthquake may be eligible for emotional trauma compensation from ACC even if they weren't physically hurt.

Police have relented and allowed bail for a young man with autism who became "the face of looting" in the days after the February 22 quake.

The 45-year-old actor unveiled the etching on his wrist during his début hour-long radio show Sheen's Korner, in which he also denied claims he suffers from bi-polar disorder, proclaiming himself instead to be "bi-winning".

The co-owners of the health clinic flattened in the collapse of the CTV building were receiving counselling yesterday and expressed their sympathy for the families of missing staff.

A 23-year-old student has been in an almost mute, catatonic state since he was found with child abuse images on his computer.

Paying overnight staff to sleep will cost more than $500 million over three years and changing the law may be considered, Health Minister Tony Ryall says.