Anxiety and mental health conditions are often tricky to explain but Manchester blogger and model Laura Whitehurst describes it as ‘like walking around with your sock falling off.

Life-changing calming techniques have been introduced at a Manchester hospital’s mobile chemotherapy unit in order treat patients who suffer from anxiety and a phobia of needles.

Being gay doesn’t define me but it’s something I’m no longer ashamed of, instead I can accept and embrace it.

Today is World Mental Health Day and, with one in four adults suffering from some form of mental illness, now is the time to start talking about it.

A team of healthcare professionals are stepping out of the clinic and into the spotlight to raise awareness of young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.

A Stockport man, suffering from depression and anxiety, has been given a ‘reason to live’ after rescuing a puppy from Dogs Trust Manchester last year.

Long hours, staff shortages and mental demands – they’re the reasons why 90% of ambulance workers in the North West are suffering from work-related stress and more than four in five are thinking of quitting.

Ahead of a talk tonight about the relationship between creativity and mental health, MM caught up with author Matt Haig on how he befriended depression to defeat it.

Manchester Opera House will be showcasing the King’s Speech from Monday 30 March, which tells the story of King George VI, a ruler that suffered from stammering.

Jessica Smith talks to MM about her journey dealing with anxiety and her Great Manchester Run aspirations to raise money for Anxiety UK.

Depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis and OCD were all conditions students at the Royal Northern College of Music discussed on World Mental Health Day.