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| UpdatedFor author Sarah Wilson, anxiety has ravaged relationships and cancelled career plans — but down in the abyss she's also found meaning and beauty, writes Jessica Martin.
Topics: non-fiction, relationships, mental-health, people, meditation-and-prayer, australia
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| UpdatedFelicity Ward is a stand-up comic whose personal experience of mental illness is at the core of her comedy work. Though passionate about her career, she says persistent anxiety has dampened the joy of making people laugh.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, comedy-humour, television, government-and-politics, world-politics, political-parties, alp, health, mental-health, stress, drug-use, alcohol, australia, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedAs research suggests homelessness is costing Victoria $194 million a year, we speak to some of the hundreds of people sleeping rough on Melbourne's streets about how they ended up there and what they do with their days.
Topics: homelessness, community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, mental-health, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedChristian is addicted to heroin and lately he's been hearing voices
Topics: homelessness, mental-health, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA coronial inquiry into the death of Jayden Bennell at Perth's Casuarina Prison finds the level of mental health care provided to the 20-year-old in the lead-up to his death was inadequate.
Topics: black-deaths-in-custody, courts-and-trials, mental-health, perth-6000
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A device which sends tiny electric shocks to the brain to stimulate neurons could one day be at least as useful to people with anxiety and depression as antidepressants, according to Curtin University researchers.
Topics: medical-research, anxiety, depression, mental-health, wa
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| UpdatedWhen bushfires ravaged the hills around Christchurch in February, children who experienced the 2011 earthquakes were left dealing with yet another disaster.
Topics: fires, earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, mental-health, new-zealand
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A Melbourne woman who lost her 20-year-old son to suicide pleads for more investment in youth programs, while his brother calls social media "a mask covering up how we're really feeling".
Topics: suicide, mental-health, vic
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| UpdatedA Shoalhaven program in which GPs refer young patients to their local PCYC for exercise is seeing positive psychological and physical results.
Topics: mental-health, exercise-and-fitness, youth, nowra-2541
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| UpdatedA remote homelands school in the Northern Territory is using Indigenous ideas about wellbeing in its curriculum to improve student mental health.
Topics: public-schools, secondary-schools, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, education, mental-health, nt, australia
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An assistance dog helps a young woman regain her life and learning after several traumatic life events that left her with crippling post-traumatic stress disorder.
Topics: mental-health, animals, university-and-further-education, university-of-newcastle-2308, rylstone-2849
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| UpdatedThe majority of Syrian children say they feel grief and sadness, seven out of 10 wet their beds and at least 3 million have only ever known war, a major new research project by Save the Children finds.
Topics: refugees, community-and-society, immigration, education, unrest-conflict-and-war, poverty, mental-health, syrian-arab-republic
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Hobart's Link Youth Health Service is finding out why 70 per cent of young people suffering distress do not get professional help.
Topics: mental-health, youth, community-and-society, research, tas
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| UpdatedBrisbane homeless program aims to reduces the demand on public services and save the community tens of thousands of dollars.
Topics: homelessness, housing, charities-and-community-organisations, community-organisations, mental-health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedLengthy delays in obtaining psychiatric reports are delaying the finalisation of serious court cases and keeping disadvantaged defendants on remand, South Australian lawyers and judges warn.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, mental-health, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa
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A woman who spent most of her life living with dissociative disorder explains how it began, how she was treated, and why she sometimes misses her "parts".
Topics: mental-health, health, child-abuse, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedLaws are hurried through Queensland Parliament to retrospectively uphold more than 11,000 rulings by the state's Mental Health Review Tribunal, after it was revealed a member did not have the proper qualifications.
Topics: mental-health, health, state-parliament, brisbane-4000, qld
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Topics: mental-health, wollongong-2500
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This year Lifeline is targeting men to become counsellors and help-seekers, and visited the industrial heart of Wollongong to do it.
Topics: mental-health, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedThree health staff are suspended amid an independent review into the treatment of an aged care patient at a mental health facility run by the South Australian Government.
Topics: mental-health, health, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, oakden-5086, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThere is "significant anecdotal evidence" of trauma to frontline personnel caused by having to retrieve bodies of asylum seekers killed trying to reach Australia by boat, the Border Force chief tells a Senate estimates hearing.
Topics: depression, defence-and-national-security, mental-health, suicide, refugees, federal-government, australia
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A monthly clinic is helping transgender people previously overlooked by the NT's health system, yet its long-term future is uncertain due to funding concerns.
Topics: sexuality, mental-health, sexual-health, mens-health, womens-health, adolescent-health, gays-and-lesbians, health, suicide, states-and-territories, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAustralian athletes emphasise the need for more support at a younger age to help sports stars move on when their careers end, saying Dan Vickerman's death is a tragic reminder of the need to focus more on mental health.
Topics: sport, sports-organisations, health, mental-health, sydney-2000
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More than 100 residents affected by suicide band together in Grafton to form a plan to reduce the rate of people taking their own lives.
Topics: suicide, mental-health, grafton-2460
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Topics: suicide, mental-health, grafton-2460