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Supporting Friends With Depression: Tips To Help Your Kids Help Their Friends
When you know someone going through depression, it can be a difficult time of uncertainty and worry. Young people will often speak with their peers before they consult an adult or professional, so it’s...
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Bipolar Disorder: What You Need to Know
Like major depression, bipolar disorder is characterized by sadness, fatigue, a loss of enjoyment in everyday activities and disruptions in appetite and sleep patterns. But individuals with bipolar...
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‘Horror Stories': Think Twice before Telling Your Boss You Have Mental Health...
Photo: Sydney Morning Herald Workers who tell bosses about their mental health issues are risking their careers, the head of national charity BeyondBlue has warned. BeyondBlue chief executive...
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Good Mental Health Care in Prisons Must Begin and End in the Community
Entry to prison presents an opportunity to identify mental illnesses and provide treatment that will continue after release. Photo: nando viciano/Shutterstock, used by The Conversation People with...
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Depression in Pregnant Mothers may Alter the Pattern of Brain Development in...
Depression is a serious mental illness that has many negative consequences for sufferers. But depression among pregnant women may also have an impact on their developing babies. Children of depressed...
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All Children Should Receive Weekly ‘Happiness’ Lessons from the Age of Five
Children of all ages should be given an hour’s “happiness lessons” every week to nurture their development and stop schools behaving as “exams factories,” a major report will warn this week. It comes...
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Women of All Ages More Likely to Have Serious Mental Health Problems than Men
Women in every age group in the United States were more likely than men to have serious mental health problems, according to federal health statistics released Thursday. The report from the National...
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The Signs of Depression in Children – Video Interview
The behavior of depressed children and teenagers often differs from the behavior of depressed adults. Signs of depression in children and adolescents include: Increased irritability, anger or hostility...
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Smoking Skunk Cannabis Triples Risk of a Serious Psychotic Episode
Smoking powerful skunk cannabis triples the risk of suffering a serious psychotic episode, scientists have found. In the population studied by the researchers in south London, where cannabis use is...
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Cultural and Economic Factors Affect European Antidepressant Use
The study found that antidepressants were prescribed more often and used more regularly in countries with higher levels of healthcare spending. In addition, beliefs that people with a mental illness...
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Storytelling for the Elephant in the Room
123RF.com, Stockphoto Stories are everywhere. They draw people together and hold an enormous capacity to evoke connection and create change. It is how humans interact and has been our main source of...
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Could A ‘Sniff Test’ Lead to Early Autism Diagnosis?
evanroboldphotographyblog.com, Photo: Evan Robold We can identify autism and its severity with meaningful accuracy within less than 10 minutes using a test that is completely nonverbal and entails no...
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Wake Up Rosie Smartphone App Aims to Help Girls Navigate the Internet ‘Junkyard’
rosierespect.org.au Young women are now twice as likely as young men to develop mental illness, according to new research. And those who work to help girls navigate the pitfalls of growing up say the...
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Drugs, Greed and a Dead Boy
Andrew Francesco at age 8. Credit Steven Francesco Andrew Francesco was a rambunctious, athletic and joyful child, but also a handful. When he was 5 years old, a psychiatrist prescribed Ritalin. As he...
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8 Healthy Tips for Managing Stress
istockphoto A latest survey conducted by the Australian Psychological Society (APS) has highlighted that the number of Australians reporting distress, anxiety and depression is the highest it has been...
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Inherited Factor In Depression
Sutter Stock A brain circuit that governs emotion is passed down from mother to daughter and may be an inherited factor contributing to depression, research has shown. The structure, known as the...
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My Dad Killed Himself When I Was 13. He Hid His Depression, I Won’t Hide Mine
Amy Marlow and her dad, Doug McDowell. Photo: Washington Post When you walk into the laundry room and find your father hanging, you know that life is never going to be the same. That is a sight you...
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Neuroscience And The Premature Death Of The Soul
Tom Wolfe: his 1996 predictions foreshadowed dubious media stories of neural circuits for infidelity and political orientation. Photograph: Jim Cooper/AP Perhaps Wolfe’s most astute observation was...
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Can Smoking Drive You Mad? Study Suggests It Might
Credit: CDC/Debora Cartagena “People with first episodes of psychosis were three times more likely to be smokers,” said a statement from King’s College London’s Department of Psychosis Studies, which...
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What Do We Do Now That Suicide Rates Among Young Women Are On The Rise?
The rate of suicide in women aged 15-24 has jumped by 50 per cent to 6.3 per 100,000, new figures have found. Photo: Stocksy Jack Heath remembers her this way: a single mum on a disability pension. She...
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