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In Honor of World Mental Health Day Here’s My Mental Heath Story

In Honor of World Mental Health Day Here’s My Mental Heath Story

I remember the first time I knew something was wrong. I was in my junior year of high school when I thought about what would happen if I purposely fell down the stairs. I’d always been [...]

The Power of Positivity in Social Media

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 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

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

‘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

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 [...]

Teens with bulimia recover faster when parents are included in treatment

Teens with bulimia recover faster when parents are included in treatment

Involving parents in the treatment of adolescents with bulimia nervosa is more effective than treating the patient individually, according to a study led by Daniel Le Grange, PhD, Benioff UCSF Professor in children’s health in the [...]

Unemployment takes its toll on young people’s mental health

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

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

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 [...]