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| UpdatedAfter a stranger's powerful words helped Natasha Young turn her life around, she started tying laminated notes with message of hope on the bridge. But Brisbane City Council is taking them down.
Topics: suicide, community-and-society, people, human-interest, health, mental-health, local-government, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, anxiety, depression, diseases-and-disorders, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedWidow Michelle Schlitter recalls her police officer husband's struggles with PTSD and depression, which lead to the 59-year-old taking his own life one year ago.
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| UpdatedStaying healthy over winter can be tricky, but it's not just your physical health that can be affected during the colder months.
Topics: mental-health, anxiety, depression, diseases-and-disorders, weather, psychology, health, people, human-interest, hobart-7000, tas, australia
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| UpdatedAcclaimed writer Fiona Wright is told she won't be able to board a Qantas flight with her disability support dog, as the organisation she works with doesn't have the right accreditation.
Topics: anxiety, air-transport, author, dog, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870, sydney-2000, sydney-airport-2020
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| UpdatedAirports are already stressful but for people with autism the lights are brighter, the smells stronger and the noises louder — it is just one "hidden disability" which will finally be catered for by staff in an Australia-first program.
Topics: disabilities, health, autism-spectrum-disorder, anxiety, mental-health, family-and-children, travel-and-tourism, lifestyle-and-leisure, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedFor Instagrammers, likes are the pay-off for posting carefully curated images — but now the platform is about to trial making them invisible to others amid fears attracting them has become a "competition".
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Both the Coalition and Labor pledge to throw millions more at youth mental health service Headspace, but former clients, social workers and mental health policy experts say the model only helps young people in the "Goldilocks zone".
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, suicide, mental-health, bullying, children, child-health-and-behaviour, anxiety, budget, depression, federal---state-issues, counselling, adolescent-health, social-media, secondary-schools, psychology, psychology-education, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThe musician, who has anxiety attacks himself, will provide qualified support officers and other assistance to help fans before and during his shows, under a new scheme he has called LiveLive.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, bands-and-artists, anxiety, health, diseases-and-disorders, united-kingdom, scotland
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When Rebecca Dostal and her sister discovered the remains of a murdered eight-year-old girl, their lives changed forever.
Topics: anxiety, mental-health, diseases-and-disorders, human-interest, crime, art-and-creativity, maleny-4552, faulconbridge-2776, pomona-4568
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| UpdatedA Queensland father who saved his young son from a suicide attempt says he wants other parents to learn from his mistakes.
Topics: suicide, mental-health, bullying, children, child-health-and-behaviour, anxiety, budget, depression, federal---state-issues, counselling, adolescent-health, social-media, secondary-schools, psychology, psychology-education, brisbane-4000, rockhampton-4700
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| UpdatedOne of Australia's flagship mental health programs is failing people with complex mental illness, researchers say.
Topics: health, mental-health, stress, depression, anxiety, australia
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| UpdatedFormer ABC foreign correspondent Lisa Millar's fear of flying would induce vomiting days before boarding a plane. But her experience shows this anxiety is possible to overcome.
Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, mental-health, anxiety, air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, australia
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| UpdatedFremantle says star recruit Jesse Hogan will not play in its round one AFL clash against North Melbourne on Sunday due to clinical anxiety and "poor decisions around alcohol consumption".
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It's touted as a pain reliever, and a way to reduce anxiety and bolster cognitive performance, but mindfulness meditation also physically changes the brain. This is how we know.
Topics: science-and-technology, academic-research, neuroscience, stress, anxiety, psychology, brain-and-nervous-system, australia
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| UpdatedA champion Paralympian had to slide down two flights of stairs on her bottom at a cinema. Now she is calling on businesses to make disability access a priority.
Topics: disabilities, paralympics, discrimination, cerebral-palsy, corporate-governance, film-movies, stress, anxiety, small-business, rockhampton-4700, central-queensland-mc-4702, brisbane-4000