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The Power of Positivity in Social Media
Today we are all here to acknowledge World Mental Health Awareness Week. Around the world today, social media will be buzzing with education, awareness and advocacy for mental health and the possibility of positive outcomes. Cyber [...]
Sane Australia: ‘Labor mental health policy: a step forward but more to be done’
SANE Media Release. SANE Australia welcomes the ALP’s policy statement on mental health and suicide prevention. In particular, SANE Australia strongly supports Labor’s commitment to: National leadership on mental health and the implementation of a Fifth [...]
Comment: Mental Health Week is a time to remember the forgotten children
As Australia marks Mental Health Week we should stop to remember that it is not only wealthy Australians who are worthy of effective treatment and a lifestyle that is conducive to being mentally healthy. There are [...]
‘I felt terrified all the time’: A mother’s experience of postnatal depression
When Erin Palmbas fell pregnant in 2010, she was excited to be a mother for the first time and to finally have the baby boy she had always wanted. But once he was born, she struggled [...]
Q&A Mental Health Week special: sufferers and psychologists join panel
Stigma, suicide and schizophrenia were all discussed by a group of mental illness sufferers and psychologists for a special Q&A in celebration of mental health month. “What does it take to make society appreciate that mental [...]
Unemployment takes its toll on young people’s mental health
Young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) are committed to working but vulnerable to experiencing mental health problems, according to a new study by researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & [...]
Why managers are more prone to depression
You’ve taken the leap from front-line individual contributor to professional manager. How do you feel? Proud? Excited? How about depressed? Middle managers are the most likely people in an organisation to suffer from depression, according to [...]
Bullied, unhealthy and unhappy: a quarter of children doing so much worse than their peers
One in five children are bullied at least once a week, causing stress-related health problems, with those with a disability the most vulnerable, according to a landmark study. The national survey of 5500 children aged 9 to [...]
Perth comedian Joel Creasey stands up for mental health
THREE simple words: “How are you?” That’s all it takes. Yet Perth comedian Joel Creasey will always regret never asking them. Just days before TV personality Charlotte Dawson took her own life early last year, she [...]
Helping Anxious Parents Raise Calmer Kids
A new study finds that a family intervention can help anxious parents raise calm kids. Children of anxious parents are at an increased risk of developing anxiety, but that doesn’t have to be the case, according [...]
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Mental illness mostly caused by life events not genetics, argue psychologists
My apologies for the passion in my response. It springs from deep dee
Mental illness mostly caused by life events not genetics, argue psychologists
The rest of the article...I must say...brought deep healing and affirm
Mental illness mostly caused by life events not genetics, argue psychologists
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More than half Australian infants have risk factors for adult mental illness
What absolute alarmist disease mongering garbage. You would have to be
How we can cope with family estrangement during Christmas
As someone who is estranged, I don't what to say. Out of my friends, I